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Colorado transportation funding faces winding road ahead
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Colorado’s dance over dollars for transportation didn’t end on Election Day, when voters crushed two ballot questions that could have put billions into roads. Voters, by roughly 20-point margins, said they didn’t want to raise the state sales tax to raise $6 billion for transportation improvements, and, separately, opposed borrowing $3.5 billion and paying it…
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Denver chamber-led coalition will seek sales tax for roads
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A Denver-led coalition hopes to ask voters in November for a 0.62 percent statewide sales tax to pay for transportation. Members of the coalition made the decision in a closed-door meeting at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Friday morning. Now the groups supporting the tax must collect 98,492 signatures from registered voters statewide by Aug.…
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Senate sends transportation funding bill to the governor
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None of the Republicans in the state House of Representatives supported it earlier in the day, but Senate Republicans collected a unanimous vote Tuesday night to send a bill to the governor that will eventually put almost $3 billion into the state’s beleaguered transportation system. Senate Bill 1 puts $495 million into roads, bridges and…
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Transportation funding bill continues to change as session winds down
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Instead of inking a final deal to pay for transportation, a Colorado House committee was still using pencils with big erasers Wednesday afternoon, as Senate Bill 1 continued to undulate with amendments between to fix highways while ensuring education money doesn’t help cover the cost. But because the House planned to convene Wednesday night, the…
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Colorado transportation funding bill clears Senate, House eyes backup plan
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DENVER – The Colorado Senate passed legislation Wednesday to use sales tax money already in the state budget to fix up the state’s clogged, aging transportation system. After days of debate and amendments, Senate Bill 1 passed 35-0 and moves to the House, where Democrats have an eight-seat majority and a lot of ideas on how…
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State revenue forecasts show uptick in economy, tax dollars
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DENVER – The news about Colorado state revenues is either good, or very good, according to the number-crunchers at the state Capitol who keep an eye on Colorado’s revenue picture. In both cases, the news was good enough for Gov. John Hickenlooper to hike the amount of money he wants to put into transportation, both…
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Denver chamber to drop ballot question to raise state sales tax for roads
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Update: The chamber said Thursday morning it will hold off on filing paperwork a few more days while it works out some details. A chamber official initially expected to file the initial request with the Secretary of State’s Office Friday. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce will submit paperwork within the next week to get…
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Legislature begins the fight, again, over how to pay for transportation
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The Colorado Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday afternoon served up the official opening volley of another contentious fight over how to pay for transportation to keep up with Colorado’s growth. The first bill Senate Republicans filed this session would ask voters next November to borrow $3.5 billion and repay it with about $300 million a year…
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Tolls on Colorado interstates aren’t in legislators’ plans, but they’re still in the works
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A bill last year to plow $300 million a year in Colorado from a sales tax bogged down over tolls. Legislation this year would take that much money out of the state budget, and it steers around the sticky politics of toll roads. “If we ask voters to let us use $300 million of taxpayer…
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Colorado chambers, business groups tell legislature to put the pedal down
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Dear Colorado legislature, get on the bus, but don’t step on the gas. That’s the takeaway from a letter more than 20 chambers and other business organizations sent to lawmakers Friday urging them to support an ongoing source of revenue for transportation, meaning revenue from growth that’s locked into the state budget. Transportation funding is…
