Author: Vince Bzdek
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Wednesday forum will address Colorado Springs affordable housing crunch
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Colorado Springs has always prided itself on lower housing prices than other Front Range cities, but that has changed fast in the last couple years. As the city’s housing market has gone white-hot, affordable housing has suddenly become scarce as playoff wins for the Broncos in the last two years, fueling the city’s homeless problem…
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Series: Is Colorado better off 5 years after legalizing marijuana?
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A billboard went up recently above the 16th Street Mall in Denver asking: “Are you better off than you were five years ago?” Five years ago, voters approved Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment to legalize marijuana. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana. But Colorado is still the canary in the…
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A closer look at how the feds’ marijuana move contradicts what Trump said in Colorado Springs
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During a conversation with The Gazette’s editorial board in July 2016, Trump, then the GOP nominee, repeatedly pledged that he would respect states’ legalization laws and take a wait-and-see approach to enforcing federal law. Asked directly by editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen if, as president, he would order enforcement of federal marijuana law, Trump responded:…
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Defense secretary in action: More of the ‘warrior monk’ than ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis
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ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT – With the State Department in upheaval, and the president focused on “America First” domestic concerns, what diplomacy and foreign policy the White House is successfully exercising have fallen more and more to one man, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. During a just concluded tour of Pakistan, Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan,…
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Gazette editor: Anti-ISIS coalition aims to drive ‘stake through the heart of the vampire’
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KUWAIT CITY – Three years after a 70-nation coalition was formed to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq, 99 percent of the territory once occupied by the “caliphate” has been liberated and 7.7 million people have been freed, coalition officials said Monday. Approximately 3,000 ISIS fighters are left from a force that once numbered in…
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Gazette editor: Marines’ mission in Mideast is to ‘train, advise, assist’ — and learn
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CAMP TITIN, JORDAN – “Now move from the 25 yard line to the 15 yard line,” shouts one of the U.S. Marines training soldiers from the 77th Royal Jordanian Marine battalion. An observer can’t help but wonder if the football imagery gets lost in translation when it is repeated in Arabic as the Jordanians march…
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Gazette editor accompanying Defense chief on four-nation Mideast tour
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OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN – Defense Secretary James Mattis launched a four-nation Mideast tour Saturday amid growing concerns that ISIS is creeping more and more into Africa as it is chased out of Syria and the Mideast. “Across Africa, we see increased concern about this,” Mattis told reporters aboard his plane on the way to…
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A new look for Colorado Politics
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The website driving Colorado’s political conversation every day is relaunching with a redesign and a host of new features. ColoradoPolitics.com, which merged with the Colorado Statesman in June, is now easier to navigate and better organized, including a new section called Right Now that highlights the very latest breaking political news. We’re also adding alerts for…