Wayne Laugesen

1 month ago | gazette.com | Wayne Laugesen

Colorado Springs stands tall as a city that honors the rule of law and champions the entrepreneurial spirit. U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank, a proven advocate for our district, has seized a golden opportunity by inviting the Small Business Administration (SBA) to relocate its Denver headquarters to our city. Be assured, SBA, that most of Colorado Springs will emphatically support this proposal. Unlike Denver, Colorado Springs is not — and will never be — a sanctuary city.

Aug 17, 2024 | gazette.com | Wayne Laugesen

Some scurrilous nonsense made the airwaves back in March, questioning the status of Colorado Springs as Olympic City USA — a brand many other cities have tried to steal over generations by attempting to woo athletes from the U.S. Olympic Training Center, the center itself and the headquarters of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in downtown Colorado Springs. That bizarre narrative is dead — officially beaten into the ground, compacted and cemented under by the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Apr 25, 2024 | gazette.com | Wayne Laugesen

Smart young entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers should visit Colorado Springs and see the city of the future. See the beginnings of a modern twist on the Pikes Peak Gold Rush, with no limit to the size, scope and longevity of opportunity. This week’s announcement of another major aerospace-oriented company moving to Colorado Springs — Omni Federal — is one of so many high-wage expansions into the region we are losing count.

Apr 23, 2024 | gazette.com | Wayne Laugesen

After plotting to ban millions of guns for "safety," a handful of radical legislative Democrats hope to control trains. They have no such authority and might as well pine for Jim Crow laws. The Colorado Senate’s Transportation and Energy Committee today will hear House Bill 1030, titled “Railroad Safety Requirements.” The bill tries to do something never attempted in another state, probably because it is so patently illegal.

Apr 3, 2024 | gazette.com | Wayne Laugesen

To impose a litany of dangerous new gun-control measures of questionable legality, legislative Democrats have put ignorance on full display. Take, for example, Rep. Chad Clifford’s recent comments reported by the Colorado State Shooting Association (the official state association of the NRA) in a March 28 email. After multiple gun owners testified that Senate Bill 066 would establish a state gun registry, Clifford responded during a committee hearing:“We have a lot of databases...