Author: The Gazette editorial board
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EDITORIAL: Sen. Hickenlooper grandstands his phony fears about food
Sen. John Hickenlooper on Friday plans a deceptive act of political theater designed to smear the “One Big Beautiful Bill” as a heartless giveaway to the rich that will exacerbate hunger and “food insecurity.” He plans to make this case during a tour of the Colorado Springs-based Food to Power, a reputable organization founded “to…
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EDITORIAL: Repeal Colorado’s flawed AI law
Rapidly emerging artificial intelligence already has become so big, so all-encompassing in our daily lives that any effort to provide regulatory guardrails has to get it right. Safeguards to AI’s development and use in Colorado must be drafted with surgical precision — enough to address concerns effectively without smothering the technology in our state. It…
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EDITORIAL: Laws aid, abet illegal immigration — cuff law enforcement
Colorado’s law officers are sworn to protect the public. Our state’s top elected officials have been doing their level best to undermine that oath. Which explains a series of laws passed by ruling Democrats at the legislature over the past few years, and signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, prohibiting cooperation between Colorado’s law…
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EDITORIAL: Gov. Polis can opt-in for educational equity
As Colorado’s landscape of opportunity expands with booming tech hubs and aerospace ventures, we must ensure every child can climb toward success. Gov. Jared Polis, who has championed charter schools and innovative education in his public and private service, faces a pivotal choice: opting Colorado into the Education Choice and Competition Act (ECCA) portion of…
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EDITORIAL: Mushroom ‘medicine’ will kill more Colorado kids
Justice was served in the sentencing on Friday of a man who sold hallucinogens to a 15-year-old boy in Boulder last year. The teen ingested the drugs, climbed a crane at a construction site in his altered state of mind, and fell 145 feet to his death. Every parent’s nightmare. Benjamin Harmon, 25, certainly got…
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EDITORIAL: A deficit of our legislature’s making
There’s more than one silver lining to the fiscal straits that will bring the Legislature back in a special session at the Capitol on Thursday at the behest of Gov. Jared Polis. Taking stock of those upsides should help Coloradans put the multiday gathering in perspective. One positive, as noted in a commentary in today’s…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado consumers beware — gas stoves burn gas
Sometimes warning labels make sense, like on a pack of cigarettes. More often, they’re idiotic — like the legislature’s short-lived attempt this year to slap warnings on gasoline pumps. Either way, almost no one heeds them or even reads them. And most of the time, that’s just as well. Especially in Colorado, where our activist…
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EDITORIAL: Polis wants SNAP to help children thrive
A child cannot flourish on Twinkies, candy and soda alone. Sadly, the state and negligent parents allow too many to try it. That’s why Colorado Gov. Jared Polis deserves support for joining 17 states in requesting waivers from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to ban soda and junk food purchases with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)…
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EDITRORIAL: Let DIA move past old, irrational fears
Denver International Airport (DIA) stands as a beacon of Colorado’s economic vitality, handling a record 82.4 million passengers in 2024 and ranking as the world’s sixth-busiest airport. We must let it flourish and grow, without unwarranted fears obstructing progress. With projections soaring to 120 million annual passengers by 2045, the airport’s energy demands will escalate…
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EDITORIAL: Heed Colorado’s woes — don’t reclassify pot
Plenty of Colorado parents who supported legalizing marijuana on the 2012 ballot may be experiencing buyer’s remorse today. Not because they feel any different about why they and a lot of others voted for it — i.e., “you shouldn’t go to jail just for smoking a joint” — but because of the ballot proposal’s fine…