Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?
For decades, Colorado has been an incubator of high-tech and aerospace ingenuity. Unfortunately, the state’s revised reputation for smothering innovation is spreading. The Colorado Chamber of Commerce found that 98 companies left Colorado or decided against moving here, many in high-tech industries. Now, a Colorado-based innovator on the cutting edge of supersonic passenger travel could…
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EDITORIAL: Vance to AFA grads: Value AI, hallow humanness
Credit Vice President JD Vance for threading a messaging needle on Thursday at the Air Force Academy graduation that too many 2026 commencement speakers have mangled. Whether or not you agree with the vice president’s politics, the war in Iran or anything else about the Trump administration, one can appreciate how Vance last week “understood…
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EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back
It’s how the Austrians must have felt after breaking the Turkish siege of Vienna. OK, maybe just the way you feel after shooing off a door-to-door salesman. Point is, the barbarians were at the gate — and finally were sent packing. And even if they’ll be back sooner or later, we can breathe a sigh…
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EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?
Proponents of a ballot initiative to guarantee funding for Colorado’s deteriorating roads, bridges and highways announced Tuesday they submitted more than 188,000 voter signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office. The welcome news puts Initiative 175 in prime position to make November’s ballot. The signatures still need certification by the secretary of state, but it’s…
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EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?
There was outrage on both sides of the political aisle over Gov. Jared Polis’ commutation last week of the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa County Clerk — and unrepentant election-conspiracy monger — Tina Peters. Criticism was particularly harsh from Polis’ fellow Democrats, who publicly denounced his use of his clemency powers on Peters’ behalf.…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more
Let’s be clear: There is no “prison crowding” crisis in Colorado. The real crisis is our Democratic legislature’s quest to free as many convicts as it can — public safety be damned. To make that happen, lawmakers will grasp at any pretext, even if it has to gin one up. And all too often, Gov.…
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EDITORIAL: A day of remembrance before recreation
Memorial Day is the traditional beginning to a season of camping, fishing, hiking, climbing, rafting — all the stuff that makes Colorado a summer destination for tourists and a playground for locals. Kids are out of school, too, so it’s time to head for the great outdoors and soak in the sun. But Memorial Day…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s growing list of turnoffs
Colorado is now the nation’s fourth-most-expensive state to live in and third-least-attractive in which to open new businesses. Let those stats soak in. That’s No. 47 for affordability and No. 48 for new businesses per thousand residents. As The Gazette reports, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s Colorado Scorecard charted the state 34th in affordability just…
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EDITORIAL: The oblivious drumbeat against data centers
Denver’s City Council declared a moratorium this week on the city’s proliferating data centers amid mounting public fears — largely unfounded but stoked by activist groups. Just down the road in Colorado Springs, meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a large data center that, ironically, moots all the same fears that have been raised in…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s legislative robber barons
The General Assembly wrapped up its work last week, passing roughly 120 bills in 120 days. And if there’s any theme that kept showing up throughout this session, it comes down to one word: robbery. State lawmakers engaged in outright theft when they voted to withhold $306 million in surplus state tax revenue that, under…