Author: The Gazette editorial board
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Denver Gazette: Hit the brakes on ‘electrification’
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Colorado’s headlong rush toward zero carbon emissions will drive the soaring cost of housing even higher. That’s the upshot of a Colorado think tank’s study of the pending “electrification” of homes in the state. A new law enacted this year by the legislature would pave the way for mandating that all newly built homes are…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Spending plenty, but not wisely, on schools
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Like a third-grader who keeps losing his lunch money on the way to school, Colorado’s public education system starts almost every year with all the resources you’d think it would need to achieve better outcomes for its students. Yet, it never manages to arrive at that goal. A telling new report from Colorado’s Common Sense…
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Denver Gazette: Colorado lawmakers sneak in another betrayal of voters
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It’s not the first time the General Assembly has tried to pull a fast one on the electorate — by way of an end run on what voters enacted at the ballot box. But it might be the first time lawmakers have connived to get away with it in advance. That’s right, before the public…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Don’t let the Colorado legislature reduce your health care
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Wannabe-woke legislative Democrats might wantonly reduce health care for typical, hard-working Colorado residents. Repeat: Politicians might vote this week to reduce the supply of health care. They will do so by deceptively claiming to help the poor and oppressed. If they vote to reduce health care for the many, know it is for the cause…
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Denver Gazette: Reach out for help before it’s too late
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We had hoped never to revisit such tragedy in our communities — not to mention so soon after the March 22 rampage that claimed 10 lives at a Boulder supermarket. And yet our state was blindsided by its second mass shooting in as many months early last Sunday, on Mother’s Day, this time in Colorado…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Woke racism leads to CU president’s ouster
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This is a sad and stupid week in Colorado, where higher education and diversity took a blow on Monday from the leftist “woke” mob. It is a great day for a fortunate university somewhere else that needs a good leader. Hardline Democrats took control of the University of Colorado Board of Regents last November. On…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: CU faculty vote against diversity
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A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado’s flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana. This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it. To uphold white, privileged…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Support Colorado’s ‘Save Casa Bonita’ movement
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Pickets and protests are more American than mom’s apple pie, baseball, and Mexican restaurants combined. They allow us to use free speech to shape society. That’s why demonstrators spent Saturday supporting Lakewood’s 52,000-square-foot Casa Bonita. They showed up to peacefully display their support for saving the 52,000-square-foot Mexican-themed restaurant so iconic the city of Lakewood…
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Denver Gazette: Join the drive to repeal ‘group living’
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The Denver City Council turned a deaf ear to the public before foisting the bitterly opposed “group-living” zoning scheme — a recipe for neighborhood deterioration — on most of the city in February. The council had its fingers in its ears once again earlier this month, when it extended some of that policy’s profoundly problematic…
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Denver Gazette: Homeless ‘camps’ conceal drug dens, death traps
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Will the courts fine Murphy Robinson for taking down a suspected meth lab and sparing a Denver neighborhood the trauma of 30 or more propane tanks blowing sky high? Incredibly, his commendable and decisive action may have violated a federal court order. But Robinson, Denver’s no-nonsense public safety chief, had more pressing worries when he…
