Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s rural road ripoff
Yet another report released last week speaks to how Colorado is neglecting its highway infrastructure. The Reason Foundation’s 29th annual Highway Report, released last Thursday, ranks all 50 states from best to worst on road-and-bridge quality based on traffic fatalities, pavement condition, congestion, deficient bridges and spending. At the top of the list are eastern…
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EDITORIAL: Price controls for the Digital Age
The Colorado House has advanced a bill to bar companies from using personal data to set individualized wages and prices. As The Gazette reports, House Bill 26-1210 is a reincarnated version of a similar proposal that failed last year. It’s yet another import by some of the Capitol’s majority Democrats of legislation adopted or under…
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EDITORIAL: Go thrifting — and help the community
Hats off to members of the greater Pikes Peak region’s faith community for stepping up to help residents in need. Their handiwork: the new CrossFire Ministries thrift store, scheduled to open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The shop at 4609 Austin Bluffs Parkway will sell donated clothing for all ages, toys, linens and…
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EDITORIAL: Faulty policies make costly Colorado costlier
Life is far more costly in the post-pandemic landscape than it was back in 2019. That’s the unfortunate reality we live with today. But why? And why haven’t prices come back down? An expansive new report from the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute — “The Inflation Hangover: How the Post-Pandemic Price Surge Reshaped Affordability in America”…
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EDITORIAL: More work to do balancing ‘speech,’ tolerance on Colorado campuses
As a news report in The Gazette this week reminds us, what passes for political activism at plenty of the country’s higher-ed institutions continues to escalate, all too often, into repugnant antisemitism. Some of those campuses, unfortunately, are in Colorado. The national Anti-Defamation League has compiled its third annual “Campus Antisemitism Report Card,” an evaluation…
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EDITORIAL: Social media must step up to protect Colorado kids
A bipartisan effort by Colorado’s legislature requiring quicker turnaround on search warrants issued to major social media companies is almost on its way to Gov. Jared Polis. We urge him to sign it into law. Senate Bill 26-011would enhance law enforcement’s ability to root out and even head off some of the wide-ranging perils threatening…
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EDITORIAL: Beware Colorado’s ‘train wreck’ energy policy
Two Coloradans walk up to a podium — and sound the alarm about the Centennial State’s endangered energy outlook. Rather than the start of a joke, we’re talking about Monday’s news conference with U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who hails from Colorado, and 8th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, who sits on the Energy…
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ENDORSEMENT: Barb Kirkmeyer for Colorado governor
Let’s cut to the chase: Colorado Republicans who are serious about retaking the governor’s office next fall will vote for Barb Kirkmeyer in their party’s upcoming primary. Kirkmeyer is the only Republican running this year who truly can mount a credible challenge in November to either of two well-funded and high-profile Democratic candidates in the…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s economy needs a diverse portfolio
A cooldown in Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, reported recently in The Gazette, is the latest reminder not to put too many eggs in one basket when it comes to the state’s economy. And for our policymakers, that means easing up on economic sectors that are proven performers — so they’re not regulated into ruin. Federal…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t subvert Colorado’s nonpartisan congressional map
An alarming effort is underway to throw out the nonpartisan guardrails voters placed around Colorado’s congressional map six years ago — just so the state can join a national, partisan war over congressional redistricting. The inaptly named group, Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, has put forward several possible measures for November’s ballot. Its sole…