Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Colorado at 150 mirrors America at 250
It’s fitting Colorado’s upcoming, milestone birthday dovetails with that of the nation it was welcomed into on Aug. 1, 1876. We’re a state as emblematic as any when it comes to our country’s past, present and future. There’s the natural beauty — the “purple mountain majesties” Katharine Lee Bates wrote of in “America the Beautiful,”…
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EDITORIAL: The Wright direction on energy policy
At long last, U.S. energy policy is being led by someone who actually understands the energy world — and recognizes the need for government to unleash, not restrict, energy innovation. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright made an appearance in his home state of Colorado last week, speaking at an energy forum in Thornton hosted by…
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EDITORIAL Colorado Supreme Court derails gerrymandering
The Colorado Supreme Court upheld Colorado’s voter-approved redistricting system Monday, fending off an attempt initiated by Democrats to subvert it to their advantage. The upshot of the ruling is to keep our state’s fair and reasonably drawn congressional districts in place — and to keep Colorado out of the national, election-year brawl over redistricting. Colorado…
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EDITORIAL: Dems move left; GOP regains hope
In a state with an unaffiliated majority but Democratic rule, the big news to emerge from Colorado’s Tuesday primary election was the party’s internal upheaval by upstarts from its left wing — vigorously challenging and in some cases knocking off establishment candidates. Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser blew by heavyweight veteran senior U.S. Sen. Michael…
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EDITORIAL: Bennet, Hick play politics with the judiciary
Facing spirited challenges from the left — in the final hours of races each thought would be a walk in the park — Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators are doing what comes naturally to politicians. Pandering. How else to explain their opposition, reported Sunday, to the pending nomination of respected and rock-solid U.S. District Judge…
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EDITORIAL: Restoring common sense to Colorado’s energy policy
It appears everyday Coloradans will get a direct say in Colorado’s war over natural gas. On one side of that conflict, Gov. Jared Polis, House Speaker Julie McCluskie and other ruling Democrats are intent on tightening their grip on natural gas production in the name of “clean-energy” zealotry. In their perfect world, natural gas would…
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EDITORIAL: A rare retreat on Colorado’s sanctuary laws
A sanctuary law passed by the legislature last year barring lawyers from disclosing information in court records to aid federal immigration enforcement was repealed discreetly this month when Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1276 into law. The requirement, as implemented by the Colorado Judicial Branch, had forced attorneys to pledge, “under penalty of perjury,”…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s mushrooming Medicaid begs for abuse
“Build it, and they will come,” the popular expression goes. We’d add, fund it — and the hustlers will come, too. Hence, the findings of an in-depth investigation by The Gazette’s news staff last month into alleged, rampant overbilling of the state’s Medicaid program by a network of service providers for the homeless in Aurora.…
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EDITORIAL: Will feds spare Colorado from its own electrification agenda?
The war on affordable energy in Colorado has taken many forms — from attempts to strangle our vital oil and gas industry to edicts that impose costly and unattainable emissions standards. Along those same lines, Colorado as well as Denver have mandated hyper-stringent energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings, pushing an electrification agenda that ramps up…
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EDITORIAL: A way around Colorado’s highway funding roadblock?
For a while, it looked as if Colorado finally had found a way to fund its long-neglected, crumbling highways: sidestep the legislature with a ballot proposal. Then, ruling Democrats at the Capitol sabotaged it. Initiative 175 would guarantee funding for Colorado’s deteriorating roads, bridges and highways by tapping $700 million in revenue from transportation-related taxes…