Author: The Gazette editorial board

Kendra Espinoza works three jobs to keep her two girls in a private Christian school in Montana. Relief came when the state Legislature established a tax credit for people who donate up to $150 to groups that fund scholarships for private-school tuition. Then came a court ruling that keeps her cupboards bare. Wednesday, she asked…

Few events on any given day in Colorado are more dangerous than a trip through The Gap on I-25. The state Department of Transportation, the State Patrol, and all drivers should do more to enhance safety through the 17-mile stretch between Monument and Castle Rock. The State Patrol this week reports a 60% increase in…

Colorado imports a lot of bad ideas from California, such as the “zero-emissions vehicle” standard designed to sell battery cars. Maybe it’s time to import a good idea from the Golden State. School district administrators should always prioritize protecting the health and welfare of students. That’s why leaders of the Los Angeles Unified School District…

Martin Luther King Jr. loved the principles on which his country was founded. In his legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, King lauded “the architects of our republic” for a Constitution and Declaration of Independence that promised “all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life,…

Colorado residents value mutual consent as part of a just, free and safe society. We rightly imprison people who have sexual relations without mutual consent. Voters in 1992 enacted a constitutional amendment that requires the consent of the governed before governments raise taxes. We expect voluntary consent by all parties involved in healthy and lawful…

“Learn to program.” That’s the Democratic Party’s new rendition of “let them eat cake,” the prescription for 18th-century French peasants who had no bread. Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden said “learn to code” after callously stating his disregard for the millions of blue-collar jobs jeopardized by his party’s war on fossil fuels. Unemployed coal…

With Colorado highways a notorious and dangerous disgrace, legislators don’t know what to do. Democrats who control both chambers simply refuse to commit more of the state’s record-setting revenues to fix the roads. “It has to be new revenue, it can’t come from the general fund — we aren’t going to cut Medicaid spending to…

Americans don’t need Middle East oil, explained by President Donald Trump in his address to the world Wednesday. The conflict with Iran won’t cause shortages or massive spikes in prices at the pump. Oil independence for the United States vastly increases the prospects of sustained peace on earth. It was not always like this. Most…