Author: The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Locally and nationally, ‘it’s education, stupid!’
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Fountain Councilwoman Sharon Thompson, left, is greeted by Cory Applegate, right, with Brenda Miller, who is running for election for an at-large seat of the Widefield School District 3 School Board, middle, during Thompson’s watch party at IHOP in Fountain on Tuesday. Early returns shows Thompson is the projected winner to become Fountain’s mayor and…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Alec Baldwin should advocate gun education
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If Alec Baldwin was correct, we would have a safer world. We could worry less about guns. After Baldwin shot and killed his friend, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last week, he declared it a “one in a trillion event.” If only this were true… If so, gun accidents would rank among the least of our concerns…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Trust mama bears to improve public schools
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Morsa Images Mama bears have awakened from their hibernation, and Big Education knows it. Union leaders, puppeteering public education for decades, are worried and they should be. Colorado in the past year has seen the sprouting and growth of grassroots, representative democracy. For years, local school board elections were mostly an afterthought. Candidates often ran…
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Colorado Springs Gazette: Democrats are headed for a disaster
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Democrats need a hopeful and positive message. They need it yesterday. The trajectory of the past few weeks has the party heading for disaster in November. The party’s primary season belly-flopped when Democratic leaders botched the Iowa caucuses during President Donald Trump’s best week in three years. When it seemed things could only improve, the…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Socialists aren’t as cool as they think
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Nerds wear thick glasses and get good grades. They dream of being cool. Bullies torment them. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper often talks about growing up with “Coke-bottle-thick eyeglasses,” walking around with a funny name and a lanky frame. He recalls bullies calling him a “nerd.” As late as early March, he tried talking like…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: University of Colorado regents with backbones stand up to ‘mob’
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Five of nine University of Colorado regents had their spines intact Thursday, voting to confirm University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy as CU’s next president during a meeting at the Anschutz Medical Campus. He will follow the extraordinary reign of retiring President Bruce Benson, who made CU great. President-elect Kennedy, congratulations and welcome to Colorado. All…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Colorado legislature neglects mental health crisis
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Today’s Perspective feature details a Colorado legislative session gone wild, with the controlling party imposing a radical left-wing agenda designed to change everything from sex education, to the cars we drive, to the way we elect future presidents. Our complaint raises an obvious question: Got any better ideas? Yes. Address the mental health care crisis. The first in…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Free speech must prevail on campus
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Sunday’s print edition of The Gazette’s Perspective section examines the war against free speech and academic freedom in higher education. This is the second in The Gazette editorial board’s new permanent series of Sunday Perspective features. We address today’s topic one month to the day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order protecting free…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Thank ethanol for pain at the pump
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Iowa’s two senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, are hosting a field hearing this coming week in western Iowa to discuss the devastating floods that have hit the Midwest. You can see the lesser effects of this flood without traveling to the banks of the Missouri River just by driving down to your nearest gas…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Colorado politicians want to grab your money
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Politicians who challenge the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights have lost their way. They care more about state government than the people it governs. House Bill 1257 represents the latest in a barrage of attempts by Colorado’s legislative Democrats to fundamentally change Colorado in one legislative session. The adage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,”…
