Author: Jack Tate
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Proposed congressional regs imperil digital access for rural Colorado
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Led by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Democrats in Congress are holding the future of America’s high-speed internet hostage. In the process, they are testing the limits of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in a blatant effort to reinstate burdensome, Obama-era regulations on the internet. Reinstating these overly prescriptive, public-utility style regulations would only serve…
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Guv’s vehicle-emissions mandate is a costly, unwarranted overreach
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Gov. Hickenlooper recently signed an executive order directing his appointees at the Air Quality Control Commission to promulgate a new rule adopting California’s Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) standards for new vehicle sales in Colorado beginning in 2022. If successful, the governor’s plan will very likely cost Coloradans billions of dollars in higher vehicle prices and…
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THE PODIUM | Fix PERA now — before its problems gets worse
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By the end of 2017, Coloradans learned that PERA, the state’s public employee retirement plan, had unfunded pension liabilities of approximately $50 billion. Senate Bill 18-200 is a bipartisan response to PERA’s approaching financial crisis which has passed the Senate and now awaits consideration in the House of Representatives. PERA’s long-term pension obligations are not…
