bicycle colorado
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Governor signs bills on bicycles, campaign contributions
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Gov. Jared Polis signed six bills on Wednesday, including measures seeking to end unlimited donations to school board candidates, allowing residents who lost homes in the December Boulder wildfires to keep their voter registration at their previous addresses, and permitting Colorado cyclists to ride through stop signs and red lights when it’s safe to do…
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Colorado Tourism Board elects first woman, Andrea Fulton, as chair
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The Colorado Tourism Board has elected the first woman as its chair, Andrea Fulton of Wheat Ridge, who is chief marketing officer for the Denver Art Museum. She was chosen by her fellow board members. She is joined to co-chairs Courtney Frazier, executive director of the Colorado Dude and Guest Ranch Association, and Doug Price, president…
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Business leaders urge Colorado House to fund transportation
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A group of business leaders Monday called on the legislature to do, well, something to make sure more tax dollars go into Colorado’s long-neglected transportation system. At a Capitol press conference, they urged the passage of Senate Bill 1, which is pending in the House. The bill would obligate $250 million a year from the state…
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Sen. Ray Scott calls for tax on bicycles to help pay for Colorado roads
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Senate Republicans in the last legislative session wouldn’t allow any new taxes to pay for roads, but Sen. Ray Scott has found one he can embrace: taxing bicycles. Scott, an influential Republican from Grand Junction, first made the announcement on Facebook Wednesday morning, atop a Washington Times story about Oregon becoming the first to implement…
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Colorado Senate advances ban on toxic ‘coal rolling’ cultural protest
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Colorado lawmakers are inching toward outlawing “coal rolling,” the practice of adjusting the workings of a diesel truck in order to let loose at will clouds of unfiltered exhaust as a form of cultural protest in an age of electric cars and climate change. The state Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a revised version…
