common sense policy roundtable
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SPONSORED CONTENT: Your health care at risk: It’s time to make your voice heard
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Medical Care When it comes to health care, we can all applaud the efforts of our elected officials to improve access and affordability. Unfortunately, a recent proposal misses the mark and puts both the quality of our health care system and access to care at risk. On October 8, Gov. Jared Polis’s administration unveiled a…
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Colorado interest groups offer up ballot guides
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There are plenty of smart people who want to help you understand the ballots on their way to Colorado voters this week. Special interest groups on the right and left, be they business interest groups or groups promoting reproductive rights, tell their supporters their positions on ballot questions. Here’s a round-up. > RELATED: Election Preview…
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CON | Prop 112 would ban energy development, shatter Colorado’s economy
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The one thing Proposition 112 has managed to achieve is uniting Coloradans in opposing it. Extreme to its very core, this measure – which would put 94 percent of private land in the top five oil and natural gas producing counties off limits to new energy development – has drawn bipartisan opposition from all corners…
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THE PODIUM | We can’t slam the door on new housing if we want it to be affordable
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Coloradans dodged a bullet earlier this year when the proponent of a crippling anti-growth initiative walked away from the measure for lack of public support. The statewide ballot proposal would have had wide-ranging and devastating consequences – not only for the housing sector, which effectively would have been shut down, but also for our entire…
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CON | Amendment 73 would kill jobs, feed bureaucracy — without helping our kids
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I’m passionate about public education. I have dedicated my professional life to improving schools and expanding educational opportunities for Colorado’s students. But I’m adamantly opposed to Amendment 73. Proponents of Amendment 73 make a simple pitch to voters: we should tax the “rich” to fund education. But don’t be fooled, there’s nothing simple about it,…
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Amendment 73 = crippling tax hikes + no accountability
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Any good business person knows that having a quality education system is key to growing a healthy state economy. We need good schools to produce a competent workforce and attract workers and their families as well as new businesses. Unfortunately, the latest effort to improve our schools through a $1.6 billion tax hike – the…
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House Dem leader misses mark — and goes out on a limb — in support of Prop. 112
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Colorado’s natural gas and oil industry prides itself on working with both Democrats and Republicans in growing our economy, protecting our environment, and providing jobs and opportunity to the hard-working people of our state. That is why it was so unfortunate to see Colorado House Majority Leader KC Becker throw her support behind Proposition 112…
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Ballot issue to roll back drilling would kill jobs across Colorado
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In Colorado, we are privileged to live in a state with a thriving economy and abundant opportunity for young people. As the president and CEO of Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain, nothing gives me more satisfaction than inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. However, this November, future opportunities for all Coloradans are…
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SPONSORED: New study asks, is a $1.6 billion tax increase worth it?
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A new study released by the REMI Partnership finds that without any guarantees of improvement in student performance, the $1.6 billion tax increase proposed by Initiative 73 will negatively impact the Colorado economy, cost private sector jobs, and place a significant tax burden on Coloradans. The study, “Amendment 73: The Economic Impacts of a $1.6…
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Initiative 97 would gut oil and gas development, devastate Colorado’s economy
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Two years ago, Bridget was a single mom with plenty of worries, but few opportunities. She was on public assistance, with no place to call her own. Then, she found a job working in Greeley for an oil and natural gas company. The job gave her a good paycheck, health benefits, and a retirement plan.…
