Author: The Gazette editorial board
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EDITORIAL: ‘Harm reduction’ dooms Colorado’s addicts
Need some quick pointers on how to smoke meth, fentanyl or crack? Those glass pipes can be tricky, you know, so you might appreciate a few helpful hints for getting a better buzz. Or, maybe you need your fix even faster and want to shoot addictive, deadly drugs straight into your veins — but you’ve…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s AG goes rogue — for a rogue CU regent
For a politician with his eyes on a higher prize, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sure seemed shortsighted the other day when he took to social media in defense of the indefensible — a University of Colorado regent rightly rebuked by her peers for her abuse of office. Readers might recall the CU Board of…
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EDITORIAL: ‘Free’ housing bureaucracies exacerbate homelessness
What we call the Free Housing Bureaucratic Complex — a sprawling web of federal, state, and local agencies tasked with delivering subsidized housing — promises shelter but routinely delivers despair. Across the nation, and starkly in Colorado, this system’s inefficiencies, self-serving priorities, and endless excuses exacerbate homelessness for the very people it claims to serve.…
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EDITORIAL: Spare Colorado’s neighborhoods from the state’s grand designs
Gov. Jared Polis and his legislative allies aim to turn Colorado’s cities, towns and neighborhoods into an ambitious experiment. And residents are the guinea pigs — especially if they are among the two-thirds of Coloradans who call a single-family dwelling their home. State-imposed changes to local zoning codes, pushed through the General Assembly by the…
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EDITORIAL: The left knows how to control population
Colorado’s one-party Democratic rulers have found the trick to controlling the state’s population growth: make Colorado unlivable. High crime + high inflation + declining household incomes + housing and homelessness crises + drug nightmare + neglected infrastructure + failing K-12 schools = move somewhere else, despite the state’s unmatched climate and natural amenities. A Common…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s revolving-door justice
Most criminals doing time have to regain their freedom at some point and — hope against hope — become productive members of society. Clearly, though, Colorado is not keeping some of them behind bars long enough or helping them mend their ways while they’re there. After all, the highest priority of our justice system must…
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EDITORIAL: The left sees ‘The Colorado Way’ as the Democratic Party’s future
A Politico article touting “The Colorado Way” as a Democratic blueprint for winning elections — by promising to save people money — is a master class in political spin divorced from reality. The Politico article, published this week and generating buzz, was inspired by an international meeting of the left-leaning Progressive Policy Institute held recently…
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EDITORIAL: Ag appointee would harm farmers, ranchers, and food stability
Colorado consumers should have deep concern over the impending confirmation of Nicole Rosmarino as executive director of the Colorado State Land Board, a decision set for Thursday that jeopardizes the state’s agricultural lifeline. Rosmarino’s history of bold anti-agriculture stances clashes starkly with the Land Board’s mission to “strengthen and advance Colorado agriculture” and its vision…
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EDITORIAL: AG Bondi, please stop Colorado from eating itself
Colorado needs Attorney General Pam Bondi like Gotham needed Batman. We need Bondi to rescue us from aggressive and futile global warming mandates, embodied in energy Regulation 28 and Denver’s Energize Denver program. Each will increasingly wreak havoc on the state’s economy by rendering commercial properties worthless, thus enabling government to take property from private…
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EDITORIAL: If Oklahoma can end its income tax, Colorado can, too
Here’s a challenge to Gov. Jared Polis as he looks ahead to his last legislative session as Colorado’s chief exec: He should make good at long last on all his talk about eliminating the state’s income tax. Granted, he never explicitly pledged to do so by a certain date or through some specific means. But…