Author: The Gazette editorial board

The Colorado Education Association – the organized-labor behemoth that dragged its feet in reopening the state’s public schools after COVID – is digging in its heels against a plan to tax pot sales to provide children tutoring and other after-school education support. Which means the union is doubling down in its attempts to thwart Colorado’s…

The abrupt closure of many offices and workplaces last spring, due to a global pandemic, ushered in a new era of remote work for millions of Americans and caused a significant shift in the way a large segment of the workforce operates. It’s estimated that at the height of the pandemic, 71% of those workers…

The foul that got Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic ejected from game 4 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday is unlikely to tarnish his image as one of pro basketball’s reigning nice guys. The misstep arguably cost the Nuggets the game and ended their playoff run. The NBA’s newly…

We have a big problem at the border and maybe it takes a moderate, commonsense Colorado Democrat to help solve it. Ken Salazar, President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as ambassador to Mexico, could be just the right person for the job. Children from Mexico, Central and South America suffer at our border after making…

Ruling Democrats at the legislature have seen the writing on the wall: Soft on crime doesn’t sell. Especially, in the midst of a statewide crime wave. On Monday, a House committee killed a terribly misguided proposal to let more criminal suspects walk free. Senate Bill 273 was signature legislation – its chief author was Senate…

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman fed some crow to his adversaries on the Aurora City Council last week. An Arapahoe County District judge issued a preliminary injunction in the mayor’s lawsuit against the city over a new campaign finance law Coffman says violates freedom of speech. A recently elected, left-leaning council majority enacted the wide-ranging, complicated…

Imagine the state legislature telling local governments they have new authority to obstruct the freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment. If it could do that, it could also tell local school districts to segregate on a basis of race in direct defiance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.…

Probably most recall efforts against public officeholders in Colorado have been as unwarranted as they have been unsuccessful. Ideally, a petition drive to launch a recall election is a fitting response only to credible evidence of bona fide malfeasance in office. A recall is not intended merely to stage an early election against a member…

It was only a matter of time before Big Marijuana’s pot peddlers would recast themselves as Colorado’s justice warriors. And it didn’t take much effort for an industry with mountains of money and no scruples. It can afford the well-oiled, shape-shifting, myth-making machinery of a prolific propaganda mill. It can pay minions and hired guns…

As Colorado grapples with the fourth-worst unemployment crisis in the country – as workers wonder how they will support themselves and their children – legislative Democrats want to make things worse for the benefit of their lawyer friends. Make no mistake about this. Senate Bill 176 would enrich vulturine lawyers at the expense of waiters,…