Author: The Colorado Springs Gazette
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Trump budget would boost Colorado Springs defense programs
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The Pentagon on Tuesday released details on the Trump administration’s proposed $54 billion hike in defense spending, including proposals that boost programs in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region. The 2018 budget would increase spending for satellite programs, missile defense and the destruction of chemical weapons. The Air Force also would get an extra…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Winning in politics, one play at a time
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Pessimists on the right and left decry Colorado’s 2017 legislative session as a loser. Neither team scored home runs. To optimists and realists, the endgame looks pretty good. In the not-so-distant past, divided governments achieved positive outcomes. Each party was humble to the cumulative value of minor progress in pursuit of long-term gain. For this…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Pot demonstrators lose right to party
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Goodbye and good riddance to the annual 4-20 pot party in downtown Denver. City and county officials shut it down for at least the next three years, showing authorities throughout the country they need not tolerate mass displays of mayhem wrapped in the First Amendment. This year’s pot party, as in the past, was a…
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Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: No special session means voters must take charge
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It is official. The Legislature cannot fix Colorado’s roads. We know it is true because Gov. John Hickenlooper gave up his idea Friday for a special session he hoped would give state politicians more time to focus on transportation. If he gives up, we give up. Hickenlooper had flirted with the idea of a special…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Big government lawyers threaten clean water
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Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, the City Council and local taxpayers are on a mission to protect the environment and downstream water. Hard-hat workers had shovels in the ground this week, and taxpayer money was flowing for the cause. Anyone who cares about clean water and Mother Earth will get out of the way and…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: CU-Boulder flirts with return to segregation
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The University of Colorado has longstanding race-relations concerns, and resolving them has never been simple. The latest proposal, a special housing unit for black students at Boulder, provides no exception. In pursuit of a just society, Americans have fought to end racial segregation. Examples: – President Harry S. Truman’s executive order 9981 forced integration of…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Governor must save oil and gas industry
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Gov. John Hickenlooper has until Thursday to appeal a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that requires state oil and gas regulators to reconsider a petition for rule-making from a group of Boulder teenagers. The 2013 case was brought by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and other teens who demanded state regulators deny oil and gas drilling permits “unless…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Call a special session, for transportation only
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After legislators ended their 120-day session Wednesday, Gov. John Hickenlooper said that he would consider a special session to deal with disappointing outcomes involving rural broadband internet, funding of the state energy office, health care policy and transportation funding. Skeptics, including Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Cañon City, expressed doubt the divided Legislature would accomplish more…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Best and Brightest represent an amazing future
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For 26 years, The Gazette has been proud to sponsor a program to recognize the city’s high school outstanding achievers as they graduate and move on to the next chapter in their lives. The students are judged by an independent panel on their academics, their community involvement and an essay they write about the challenges…
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Editorial: Colorado colleges are modern free speech refuges
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Students throughout the country who want a free and liberal education should look to the public universities of Colorado, thanks to the Colorado Legislature, Republican Sen. Tim Neville and Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. The governor last week signed Senate Bill 62, which The Gazette’s editorial board supported from moments after Neville introduced it early in…
