Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: All In Mile High’s gaping, glaring holes
Another report from watchdog Denver City Auditor Tim O’Brien has identified major issues with how Mayor Mike Johnston’s office has accounted for his signature All In Mile High homelessness initiative. As The Gazette reported, Johnston’s office informed the City Council in October 2025 that the total cost of the program from July 2023 through June…
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EDITORIAL: Guv finally gets it on prisons — but will lawmakers?
For a change, Gov. Jared Polis is all in on making room for more inmates in Colorado’s correctional institutions. It’s an encouraging turnabout following his years of support for “decarceration.” That unwieldy word sounds like some kind of disease — and might as well be — though it refers to systematically emptying prisons to the…
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EDITORIAL: Illegal immigration gives Coloradans more sticker shock
Who knew it would cost taxpayers so much to provide health care to anyone who lands on the doorstep of Sanctuary Colorado? Evidently, our legislature hadn’t a clue. It turns out it not only costs a lot but in fact runs the tab a lot higher than lawmakers had anticipated. Many times more. As reported…
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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: Close ranks to fight crime — and overdoses — in metro area
Denver’s elected leaders have their blinders on when it comes to the ill effects of illegal immigration — their only focus being their steadfast refusal to cooperate with federal efforts to crack down. And with their heads planted so deeply in the sand, they probably haven’t noticed a productive and encouraging federal-local partnership forged to…
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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…