Author: The Gazette editorial board

Our solemn prayers and deepest sympathies are with the grieving loved ones of the victims in Monday’s tragic shooting spree at a Boulder supermarket. And our hearts go out to the market’s other customers and employees as well as to the first responders who survived the carnage. Ten people lost their lives in the apparently…

Compared with last year’s game-changing new law allowing some 28,000 Colorado state employees to collectively bargain for pay and benefits, a push to unionize several dozen left-leaning legislative staffers at the Capitol seems more like a bridge club. For now, at least. A spokeswoman for the effort says they won’t get collective-bargaining rights – the…

A few nights in jail. That prospect prevents countless Americans from driving drunk, shoplifting, trespassing, using illicit drugs, vandalizing property, and more. More than 90% of Americans lead their lives without getting locked up for a moment. They so prefer sleeping on their own terms, even on the ground, they dissuade themselves from indulging in…

The state’s hospitality and event industry is thanking Gov. Jared Polis for granting them a new lease on life. A coalition of trade groups representing hotels, special-event operators, performance venues and related businesses announced Friday that the governor and his health officials have given them a much-needed path toward ramping up business as COVID winds…

Now that even the Biden administration has declared its support for standardized testing for school kids nationwide following a year of stunted “remote learning,” you might think testing’s largely Democratic Colorado critics would stand down. Instead, they are searching for loopholes in the administration’s position. Last week, a top education official in the administration wrote…

Since COVID’s arrival in Colorado about a year ago, our state’s schoolteachers have proven themselves again and again to be resilient, diligent, innovative, adaptable and dedicated to our children. In short, they have done a remarkable job persevering amid the pandemic. All of which stands in stark contrast to the unions that claim to speak…

Colorado’s legislature rebooted its 2021 session Tuesday after a five-week hiatus. The reason for the unusual pause in lawmakers’ work was of course to sit out the pandemic as its numbers, happily, continue to wind down. Much of the rest of Colorado continued to toil away at work and school during those five weeks, probably…

Colorado businesses and households need immediate relief to recover from the pandemic’s economic pitfalls. That’s what Gov. Jared Polis promised, mostly, during Wednesday’s State of the State address. He suggests: ? Reducing automotive registration fees ? Eliminating the business personal property tax for tens of thousands of businesses ? Doubling the earned income tax credit…

We recently gave legislative Republicans an editorial nudge toward the deal-making table at the State Capitol. We hope they’ll play a key role in hammering out a realistic plan to fund transportation – meaning, highways. We pointed out that even though Republicans are the minority in both legislative chambers and don’t hold the Governor’s Office,…

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet loves Washington and represents the city well. If the senator gets his way, Washington will become a state like Colorado – at the expense of Colorado. We cannot create another state without diluting the influence of the other 50. Bennet boldly leads the congressional push to make the District of Columbia…