Tag: Editorials
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EDITORIAL: It’s time to relax COVID-19 restrictions on gyms and health clubs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not just Colorado’s restaurants that have been on life support since the dawn of COVID-19. Gyms, health clubs and other workout facilities, shuttered at first during last spring’s lockdown, have been operating at a…
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EDITORIAL: Stop raising subsidies for the rich to buy cars
The Left wants Joe Biden to govern as if the recent election had gone very differently. The Justice Democrats and other far-left groups are circulating a memo blaming their party’s center for the defeats and insisting on radical change. They want Biden to treat his nail-biter, no-coattails victory as a mandate to implement unpopular progressive…
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EDITORIAL: Yes on 115; Colorado must end late-term abortion
Is there any common ground for one of the most contentious issues of our time? It’s easier to find if we look beyond some misconceptions about the abortion debate. As it turns out: • Not all supporters of abortion rights in Colorado think the procedure should be legal in all circumstances. • Not all opponents…
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EDITORIAL: No more ‘ballot-box biology’ — and no to 114
It is billed as the “restoration” of a species that once prowled our state — yet the proposal seems driven by sentiment rather than science. Proposition 114 on the fall ballot would require the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife to create a plan to reintroduce and manage gray wolves on designated lands west of…
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EDITORIAL: Yes on 117; no to death by a thousand fees
Death and taxes may well be life’s only two certainties in much of the world, but in Colorado, we can add one more thing to the list — fees. It’s why we urge a “yes” vote on Proposition 117 on the statewide ballot this fall. Our state’s elected officials figured out long ago that if…
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EDITORIAL: Hickenlooper was jet-set as rural Colorado burned
John Hickenlooper snubs rural Colorado because “backwards thinking” voters don’t matter all that much. They don’t matter in terms of getting him elected. That was his attitude as governor, so it comes as no surprise he has almost nothing to do with rural Coloradans while running for the United States Senate. Hickenlooper blew off Saturday’s…
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EDITORIAL | Amendment B overcorrects; vote ‘no’
New homeowners who have migrated to Colorado from all over the country typically breathe a sigh of relief at their first property tax bill. Though the tax toll has been rising along the Front Range amid soaring real estate values, the rate itself at which residential real estate is taxed has been ranked third lowest…
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Editorial: In the wake of loss
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By Gretchen Woods, Publisher There are occasions in our lives that leave us at a loss for words. Sometimes from joy — the first look at a new life, a sunset, a work of art,…