Author: The Colorado Springs Gazette

Anti-energy activists have a constitutional right to zealously oppose oil and gas production. They can do this, even as some drive to demonstrations in gas-guzzlers and heat their homes with natural gas they want kept in the ground. Anti-energy protesters have the right to hold signs and yell at hardhat workers approaching drilling rigs for…

Imagine if churches made us cool. If that could happen, Colorado Springs would go from the country’s second-most desirable city (U.S. News & World Report) to a solid first-place finish no other cities could match. In Colorado Springs, churches we got. Some call this place the Evangelical Vatican. In a column for Sunday’s edition, Gazette…

As Americans celebrate Black History Month, shrines to racists and racism are going the way of the Berlin Wall. Yale University officials announced last week that they will rename Calhoun College, one of the institution’s eight original residential colleges. It was named after former U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, an 1804 Yale graduate who defended…

As Americans celebrate Black History Month, shrines to racists and racism are going the way of the Berlin Wall. Yale University officials announced last week that they will rename Calhoun College, one of the institution’s eight original residential colleges. It was named after former U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, an 1804 Yale graduate who defended…

We just hate to brag, but … Actually, we quite enjoy boasting about Colorado Springs and the surrounding region. It has become nearly impossible to explain why anyone would want to live anywhere else. The economy is booming, the sun shines 300 days a year, and magazines constantly put us on lists of the most…

When prodded last weekend by Bill O’Reilly about Vladimir Putin being a “killer,” President Donald Trump demurred, saying, “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?” It’s the kind of relativist retort familiar to alumni of too many public high schools, readers of The Nation and students at most universities. Trump’s…

The proposal for a downtown sports and events center, a component of the City for Champions initiative, has been taken off life support. No memorial service is planned. Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told The Gazette’s editorial board Monday the project would need an additional $28 million in additional local public funding. Similar stadiums, for…

Unlike their parents, millennials aren’t flocking to colleges in droves. Growing numbers are more interested in jobs that don’t require four-year degrees. So says the premise of a story by CBS News Money Watch, which explained a national downward trend in college and university enrollments. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported in 2015 that…

Unlike their parents, millennials aren’t flocking to colleges in droves. Growing numbers are more interested in jobs that don’t require four-year degrees. So says the premise of a story by CBS News Money Watch, which explained a national downward trend in college and university enrollments. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported in 2015 that…

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and no one is safe from post-election politics. Addressing a group of business leaders Friday, President Donald Trump quipped about the sad, politicized state of our culture. “One of the things that I heard this morning … watching the news was that – amazingly, it’s never happened before – that politics…