Tag: Wayne Laugesen
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EDITORIAL: Stop letting weapons into children’s schools
The police chief of Madison, Wis., had the horrible task of addressing the public within hours of the country’s latest school shooting Monday. His unfortunate and emotional view of metal detectors should change the way we proceed with school safety. Authorities say 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow killed two fellow students and injured six before taking her…
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EDITORIAL: Council forces inclusion into exclusive resolution
The Gazette editorial board crusades against needless division. That’s why we wrote, in March of 2022, that “public libraries are not special interest bookstores. We need them to stand as objective archives without political agendas — left or right — forced by activists in management.” Then-Pikes Peak Library District Director John Spears had spent six…
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EDITORIAL: Legislators want local heroin injection sites
Anyone who travels knows the conversation. It begins after getting off a plane. Uber driver: “So, where are you from?” Passenger: “Colorado.” “Oh, the drug state,” the driver says, giggling. Wear it with pride. Take comfort in the opening lyrics of Copper Chief’s hit song “Snakeskin Boots.” “This here’s a song about methamphetamine and killing…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado Senators get tough to get Space Command meeting
We need Space Command, not assurance the outcome will be fair. Colorado’s two senators took a position of strength last week. They demanded a Space Command meeting. To get it, they threatened President Joe Biden. If the government moves Space Command to Alabama, it will diminish the country’s security by disrupting a well-established command during…
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EDITORIAL: Polis ships refugees to cities they choose
Refugees fleeing oppression arrive in Colorado by busloads. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ships most of them out, leading to headlines that compare him to the Republican governors of Florida and Texas — each of whom buses immigrants here illegally to other states. New York Mayor Eric Adams complained this week that his city cannot handle…
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EDITORIAL: Penner could make the Broncos a winner again
Denver Broncos general manager George Paton is no George Patton — the legendary World War II general who said losing was for losers. “Americans love to fight,” Patton said to American troops in 1944 before the Allied invasion of France. “When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the…
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EDITORIAL: Politicians tell big lies to celebrate pot
Our state’s highest-ranking politicians must think misery loves company. Gov. Jared Polis and Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper rank among the country’s most enthused advocates of marijuana legalization. Sunday marks the 10-year anniversary of Colorado becoming the first state to legalize recreational pot. State leaders are celebrating like children. They want pot legalization from…
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EDITORIAL: Elect O’Dea and replace an ineffective Sen. Bennet
Colorado has the choice to elect a senator who will achieve positive change. Voters should elect self-made businessman Joe O’Dea, whose lifetime work has netted positive results. Replace a Washington insider who has achieved almost nothing in 13 years. By electing O’Dea, voters will replace a senator so ineffective he did not garner 1% support…
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ENDORSEMENT: Buck the insanity by re-electing Buck
Colorado’s Congressional District 4 provides an alternative to the weird and dangerous environments found throughout areas of Colorado controlled by politicians who decriminalize dangerous drugs and dramatically reduce punishments for crimes. District 4, comprising most of Colorado east of the Front Range, preserves a way of life that used to define Colorado — thanks in…
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ENDORSEMENT: Elect Lang Sias, the Top Gun for Colorado
Tom Cruise is not running for Colorado state treasurer. Yet, we have Lang Sias. He’s like Top Gun’s Maverick — in real-life — minus the risky test-the-limits behavior. After a conversation with Sias, one must wonder why we lack candidates of this quality for president of the United States. That’s not an exaggeration. He is…