Editorial: Limit jobs? Councils should be careful what they wish for

It’s not a prevailing sentiment, but members of at least one city council have voiced a disturbing idea in recent months, that the city should limit the number of jobs within its borders.

We’re speaking of Boulder, where city council meetings or study sessions are apt to include that idea, which would be anathema to elected officials in most other communities in the region. Can anyone imagine Greeley complaining of “an excess of jobs,” as some members of the Boulder city council do? What other community would actively seek to limit jobs to cure a perceived…