Tag: Elections-2024

Colorado’s innovative charter schools have been raising the bar for public education in our state — and setting the pace nationwide — for over three decades. They also have been winning parents’ hearts and minds along the way. The wildly popular charter school movement now serves some 137,000 K-12 public school students at 268 public…

As abundant data makes clear, Colorado’s terribly misguided “decarceration” policies — i.e., letting dangerous criminals freely walk the streets — have been accompanied by soaring crime. In a landmark report last year, the Common Sense Institute found that from 2010 to 2022, the state’s crime rate increased by 32% while the number of inmates in…

As abundant data makes clear, Colorado’s terribly misguided “decarceration” policies — i.e., letting dangerous criminals freely walk the streets — have been accompanied by soaring crime. In a landmark report last year, the Common Sense Institute found that from 2010 to 2022, the state’s crime rate increased by 32% while the number of inmates in…

It took a scandal — exposed by The Gazette’s investigative reporting — to alert the public several years ago to the need for reform in Colorado’s judiciary. As news coverage peeled back the layers of secrecy that have enshrouded the state’s courts, it became clear how little scrutiny Colorado’s judges face compared with officialdom in…

The die-hards of the anti-cop, “justice reform” movement on Colorado’s political fringe would have you believe our state was overpoliced. But try telling that to the general public. The mere thought of it would be laughable to rank-and-file Coloradans, who have weathered an epic crime wave the past few years. Overpoliced? “If only!” they’d likely…