By The Gazette Editorial Board | SOURCE: The Gazette
Even for a State of the State address, Gov. Jared Polis did plenty of bragging. In his sixth such speech Thursday, he touted his administration’s strides on preschool and public ed; health care; climate change; the crime fight; affordable housing, even the introduction of gray wolves.
It was as if he were seeking to burnish his credentials for a run for higher office — if that wasn’t apparent from his repeated references to President John F. Kennedy.
Let’s hope the higher office he lands doesn’t turn out to be secretary of transportation — should the White House go to someone else. Sinking untold billions of dollars into passenger rail service — an idea that leaves him aglow — would do as little to get most of the nation from Point A to Point B as it would it would most of Colorado.