Author: Gazette editorial board
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EDITORIAL: Blink and your car is gone in Colorado
It looks like Colorado is on track for the second year in a row to claim the dubious title of No. 1 state for auto theft. That’s among the startling findings of the latest crime study released Thursday by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute. Alarming, galling, embarrassing and depressing are among the words that should come…
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EDITORIAL: Chief Pazen — point man in Denver’s crime fight
Paul Pazen at times must have felt like a voice in the wilderness during the past four years as Denver’s police chief. He repeatedly has warned the political establishment, the media and anyone who would listen that soft-on-crime policies have slapped the cuffs on his cops — and have put the community on a collision…
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EDITORIAL: Protect ‘protective services’ from abuse
Stunning, lurid and devastating allegations against a former Arapahoe County child protective-services worker — brought to light by The Gazette’s dogged reporting — have implications statewide. Most notably, if the ex-employee’s alleged, outrageous abuses could occur at one such county agency that handles cases of child abuse and neglect, a re-examination of procedures and safeguards…
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EDITORIAL: A cash crunch for Colorado’s pot trade
There was more bad news for Big Marijuana in Colorado last week. As reported in The Gazette, Coloradans as well as “pot tourists” visiting the state appear to be spending nowhere near as much on marijuana products as they did at the height of the pandemic. That’s the upshot of the latest pot sales stats…
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EDITORIAL: Aurora streamlines the bureaucracy
Aurora has been setting the pace lately for local government in the metro area — and setting an example for its next-door neighbor, Denver. With a back-to-basics city council majority at the helm since last November’s election, Aurora City Hall has turned away from the previous council’s tilting at windmills and refocused on giving residents…
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EDITORIAL: Polis should fight the EPA’s gas tax
As if the price at the pump weren’t high enough, Colorado motorists could wind up paying another half a buck per gallon thanks to a pending federal action. As The Gazette reported Wednesday, it was our own Gov. Jared Polis who actually had egged on the feds a couple of years ago. He wrote the…
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EDITORAL: Wiser water use lets arid Colorado thrive
Colorado’s No. 3 city aims to blaze a trail toward smarter management of our scarcest resource — water. An aggressive proposal to do just that — getting ahead of the curve on water use to accommodate coming growth and development — will face Aurora’s City Council on Monday. First-term Mayor Mike Coffman shared the sweeping…
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EDITORIAL: Panicked policies won’t stem gun violence
Coloradans on nerve’s edge in the wake of mass shootings have nothing to fear from a federal court ruling last Friday that stalled new gun-control measures in the town of Superior. That’s because the local ordinance the court temporarily halted was pointless to begin with. It deserves to be struck down and perhaps will be,…
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EDITORIAL: Our ruling class snubs flyover Colorado
“Flyover” country is political lingo for the vast tracts of Middle America ignored by elected elites. They figure they don’t need the votes; their support base is in the country’s large metro areas, typically on the coasts. Colorado has its own version of a heartland overlooked by its political ruling class. It comprises much of…