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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Debates leave Democrats adrift
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After Wednesday’s edition of the two-night 20-person Democratic presidential debates, MSNBC pundits wanted to know: Why did none of the first-round candidates invoke the memory of former President Barack Obama? Democrats, they reasoned, should have reminded Americans of their party’s most recent and wildly popular president. We wonder what debate they watched. Relative to the…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Denver should reelect Mayor Hancock
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Denver voters make a decision next week important to all of Colorado, choosing the winner of a Tuesday runoff between Mayor Michael Hancock and challenger Jamie Giellis. If voters want to jeopardize Colorado’s image, stifle progress and move their city backward, they will choose Giellis. If they want to continue Denver’s trajectory as a nationwide…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Citizens shouldn’t compete with illegals for federal housing
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Stroll through Colorado Springs, or other cities and towns, and one sees a common tragedy. People live in sleeping bags, tents and boxes. This, during one of history’s greatest eras of economic growth. At least 20 percent of homeless men are veterans, most with backgrounds in combat. They fought for our freedom to live warm,…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: It is past time to secure our schools
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Colorado finds itself the location of another school shooting, this time at the STEM School Highlands Ranch. Sadly, and typically, the immediate response was political and crass. Students of the school walked out of a candlelight vigil to honor victims of the Tuesday shooting, which killed 18-year-old student Kendrick Castillo and wounded eight. Castillo died…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Trump speech strikes unifying tone
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When President Donald Trump’s speech ended Tuesday night, there had to be a question shared in living rooms and saloons throughout the country: Where has this been? Regardless of what pundits will say in coming days in the spin zones of partisan cable talk TV, Americans who watched the State of the Union probably slept…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: UCCS should accept the Christian club
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The University of Colorado, a state-funded school, cannot interfere with the free exercise of religion. Yet the administration appears to do just that. Students pay mandatory activity fees to the university. The fees fund organizations arbitrarily recognized by the administration. Because these fees are compelled, the public university has a legal and ethical obligation to…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Gov. Polis aims to reinvent health care
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Gov. Jared Polis took bold action Wednesday to pursue lower prices and better access to health care, signing an executive order that creates the “Office of Saving People Money on Health Care.” It’s an anti-mission creep name, never letting anyone forget the charter. The Gazette’s editorial board has long maintained hope Polis would use his…
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The Washington Examiner via The Colorado Springs Gazette: Kamala Harris joins crowded Democrat field
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When you look at the Senate Democrats who have announced their presidential campaigns so far, you notice that each one has a theme. For example, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has made her career about reform of the financial industry. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has made hers about preventing workplace sexual harassment. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio,…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Dr. King’s dream is far from coming true
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In his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., envisioned a culture that did not judge race. People would treasure freedom for all from “the heightening Alleghenies” Pennsylvania to “the snow-capped Rookies of Colorado.” He delivered his words from the Lincoln Memorial – the exact location of racial and ethnic tensions that…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Gov. Polis budget splurges on 5-year-old children
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The sucking sound of big state spending conjures visions of straws – the plastic kind politicians ban in California. Full Democratic command of Colorado, Republicans warn, makes us California East. “Would you sign a bill banning plastic straws?” we asked Gov. Jared Polis during a phone conversation Tuesday. “Everyone is talking about it.” “No one…
