Tag: Editorials
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EDITORIAL: We must address domestic violence
Sometimes it seems we have a month for every possible cause: Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Black History Month — all worthy of commemoration. But Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October stands apart because it marks a national tragedy we cannot ignore. Domestic violence deaths range from the horrific stories such as Shanann Watts,…
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EDITORIAL: Some companies don’t want Colorado remote workers
The abrupt closure of many offices and workplaces last spring, due to a global pandemic, ushered in a new era of remote work for millions of Americans and caused a significant shift in the way a large segment of the workforce operates. It’s estimated that at the height of the pandemic, 71% of those workers…
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EDITORIAL:Colorado needs this THC potency bill
Three days before he took his own life, 19-year-old Johnny Stack sent a text to his mom. “I want you to know you were right. You told me marijuana would hurt my brain. It’s ruined my mind and my life, and I’m sorry. I love you.” Johnny’s five-year battle with addiction began as a Colorado…
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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…