Editorial Roundup Archives

Editorial Roundup

Ranchers, slam gates on urban recreationists | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Urbanites who enjoy America’s playground can thank 36,000 rural landowners for managing and preserving landscapes that make Colorado an ethereal land of awe. Coloradans who...

Coloradans want diversity — not illegal immigration | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Want to watch a Colorado politician jump out of his seat and run for cover? Just whisper the word, “immigration.” It is, of course, a...

Coddling criminals, ignoring crime | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

While rank-and-file Coloradans have been weathering a crime wave, their oblivious elected lawmakers have been preoccupied with the well-being of the culprits. It has been...

Gabe Evans — soldier, statesman, farmer, cop — for Congress in CD-8 | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Once again, next November’s face-off over Colorado’s newest congressional district promises to be a close call. And once again, control of the entire U.S. House...

Serve the children, not the union boss | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

The left goes mad on gun control | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Colorado’s tipping point on illegal immigration | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Colorado communities benefit by going local | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Colorado’s government grows its payroll again | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

How not to house Denver’s homeless | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Shackling landlords will backfire on tenants | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Springs Rescue Mission saves human lives | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Colorado’s Phil Weiser takes the wrong side | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Restoring condos to Colorado’s housing equation | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

The right way to restore a species | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

No wildlife biologists or credentialed experts in related fields serve on The Gazette’s editorial board. And they are few and far between among the general...

Another attack on the Western Slope | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

When urban Front Range liberals released wolves on Western Slope farmers and ranchers, they illustrated how 51% of voters can tyrannize the other 49%. In...

Denver reaps what decriminalization has sown | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

What’s the downside of lofty ideals like decriminalization, “justice reform” and “harm reduction”? How about the rampant drug abuse and epidemic of overdoses that have...

Pressure is on for property-tax relief | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

A state panel charged with finding long-term relief from Colorado’s skyrocketing property taxes had better not settle for a mere “Version 2.0” of the ineffectual...

Governor enacts the Smoke-Filled-Room Law | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Another attack on Colorado’s charter schools | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Drug bill doomed — but still warrants discrediting | Denver Gazette

Updated 1 year ago

Democrats kill bill to curtail migrant crime | Denver Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Jay Cimino lived his life for others | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

School board considers concealed carry plan | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Citizenship is a prerequisite for police work | Denver Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Universities should enforce free speech | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

House Democrats kill the bill against raping children | Denver Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Make Colorado’s criminals serve their time | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Gov. Polis should stop ‘DEI’ | Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

The May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, now in prison, had a wide-ranging impact on society. It rekindled a needed...

Zoom bombing must be managed for robust public participation | Durango Herald

Updated 2 years ago

City Council meetings anywhere can go off the rails. But Tuesday’s regular meeting in Durango went down in history as the city’s first to be...

Cut bureaucracy at Colorado’s colleges | Denver Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

Each fall, Colorado parents have ever greater misgivings as they send another round of freshmen to the state’s colleges and universities. Foremost among their concerns...

They take care from Peter and give it to Paul | Denver Gazette

Updated 2 years ago

The pandemic gave Americans a lesson in scarcity. Consumers fought over toilet paper, hand soap, and other items they had long taken for granted. One...