Guest Columnists

When the space shuttle Atlantis touches down in Florida on Thursday, the United States will no longer possess the technology to launch a human being into space, nor will it have any vehicle on the drawing board capable of doing so.   ...... Full story

Today, May 30th, Americans observe Memorial Day. It is a day to honor those who have paid the ultimate price in battle for our nation. It is fitting and right that we honor those heroes on this day. But do we remember them the other 364 days of the...... Full story

The recent City Council decision to defer a vote on the future of Memorial Health System is prudent and one the Board of Trustees of Memorial supports. There are many misunderstandings about Memorial Health System and what an ownership change would...... Full story

“We’re going to have to out-educate other countries,” President Obama urged this week. How? By out-spending them, of course! It’s the same old quack cure for America’s fat and failing government-run schools monopoly....... Full story

It’s a persistent pattern I’ve seen in the 46 years I have spent in or around politics: Statist politicians do, or try to do, something really outrageous to the rest of us, and when we protest, they tell us we are not being...... Full story

The rift between the American people and the politicians in Washington, D.C. has been building at an astounding rate for the past couple of years. Discontent started towards the end of President Bush’s second term with the bailouts and grew...... Full story

Over the 36 years we collectively governed this state, the four of us have disagreed over a number of issues. Today, we join together to enthusiastically support Senate Bill 191, Sen. Mike Johnston’s proposal to help Colorado develop great...... Full story

The two most frequent questions I get as chairman/CEO of the just-named “City Committee” are “what will it do?” and “how did it get started?” I’ll try to answer both questions today. The City Committee has...... Full story

The recently passed health care takeover threatens to erode our fundamental freedoms and liberties. I reject this Washington power grab and am committed to doing all I can to protect Coloradans, indeed all Americans, from this costly, intrusive, and...... Full story

By Tom Mowle With budget problems affecting every level of government, people are calling for government to be run more like a business. People more than ever expect government to live within its means, just as they themselves must, or risk joining...... Full story

First, you should apologize to your children. You should apologize to them because, if you’re my age, you came into the world when the national debt was about $100 billion. That was a lot of money back then, more than any generation had ever...... Full story

On Jan. 30, on The Gazette’s front page, Eileen Welsome attempted to report on the Lafarge mining application, which was heard by the Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) on Jan. 28. She was absent from the hearing, and the first sentence of...... Full story

It’s appalling what the county commissioners in El Paso County did this week when they passed a resolution urging our elected officials in Washington, D.C., to vote against affordable, quality health care for all Americans. This vote...... Full story

The health reform debate has heated up mainly over rationing. On August 6, Mike Sola of Michigan confronted Rep. John Dingell. As Sola’s son watched from a wheelchair, Sola charged, “Under the Obama health care plan which you support,...... Full story

By Josh Penry President Barack Obama’s plan to push American health care down the path toward socialized medicine is in the equivalent of political free fall. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans now disapprove of...... Full story