Author: Colorado Springs Gazette Editorial Board

Colorado’s frantic efforts to erase its carbon footprint — at seemingly any cost, come what may — are backfiring on ratepayers through their utility bills. You probably aren’t surprised, and that’s not only because you have been experiencing it firsthand. It also simply stands to reason. After all, our state-mandated, panic-induced, seismic shift away from…

The word is out that our state’s experience with legalized retail marijuana has kicked Coloradans in the shins. In fact, the bad news about Big Marijuana has made it all the way into the Times of London, which has been doing eyeopening reporting on how pot’s high has become a downer in U.S. states that…

Coloradans love their dogs, cats and other pets. Two of every three households in our state own at least one. Coloradans also appreciate the other domesticated animals that play roles in our lives, like horses and of course livestock. Naturally, we want them all treated humanely and to be well cared for, including giving them…

One need not trespass to catch fish in Colorado — an inland angler’s paradise. That’s a lesson Roger Hill and other such scofflaws need to learn. The state is home to 158 charted rivers, more than 90,000 miles of running water and more than 2,000 lakes and reservoirs. Most are on properties open to the…

This is an appeal to our neighbors in the Canadian province of British Columbia: Please do not donate wolves to Colorado. We speak to you as a diverse editorial board composed of Colorado natives and longtime residents who care deeply about wildlife and Colorado’s wilderness. Our friends at Colorado Parks and Wildlife approached their peers…

To survive Tuesday’s debate, Vice President Kamala Harris needed only avoid an embarrassing smackdown. Harris far exceeded expectations, winning the debate after former President Donald Trump fell into every trap she set. It began with a question to Harris that should and could have become Trump’s cudgel. ABC co-moderator Linsey Davis asked Harris, “when it…

It’s hard enough for Coloradans in the state’s farming, ranching and mountain communities to be heard in the state’s centers of power, especially the Capitol. It doesn’t help when that is also literally true — due to spotty-to-nonexistent cell phone service in much of rural Colorado. The good news is a legislative task force has…

Boulder, Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville and Erie are collectively considering an increase to the region’s minimum wage. That means politicians will feign economic compassion while jeopardizing the lowest rungs of the working poor. As the economy suffers from three years of historically high inflation, expect more of this political pandering across Colorado — where a 2019…

It took a couple of years, a couple of regular legislative sessions and a couple of special sessions. It also took a whole lot of wrangling to overcome the political establishment’s state of denial — about how skyrocketing property taxes are crushing the average Coloradan. The bipartisan property tax relief that emerged from last week’s…

As we demand more electrons, we will need more fission. Without it, we will sit in the dark — thanks to human-caused electron interference. In “third world” regions, electricity is an improbable maybe. Throughout much of Africa, southern Europe, Mexico, Central and South America, the Middle East and other economically challenged areas, one might see…