Hancock: The future of Colorado hangs between boom and blackout
By Michael A. Hancock | Commentary, Substack
There's a difference between dreaming big and hallucinating. Colorado's progressive legislators have yet to figure that out.
Once a beacon of frontier grit and entrepreneurial promise, Colorado is drifting into a twilight of self-imposed stagnation. This isn't the result of some unforeseeable external shock. No. The decline is being engineered — brick by legislative brick — by a political class more interested in social signaling than in fostering economic vitality.
The question isn't whether Colorado faces a reckoning. The question is whether we will admit the cause before we hit the wall.
Let's start with energy, the lifeblood of any serious economy. Colorado holds a wealth of natural resources—oil, gas, coal, and uranium— all of ...