fix our damn roads
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Proposition 109: it takes care of Colorado’s transportation needs — without a tax hike
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Colorado voters will have a choice this fall between two transportation funding measures. Proposition 109 focuses on road and bridge infrastructure, without a tax or fee increase, while Proposition 110 uses roads as a hook for a massive sales tax increase, a slush fund for cities and counties, and mystery transit projects mostly aimed at…
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COVER STORY | Heavy traffic across Colorado: Transportation dollars at stake in election
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Colorado’s means of getting around are in great need of attention, partisans on every side agree. But the various solutions and competing ways of paying for transportation improvements offered by candidates and ballot measures are a different political matter entirely. The interstates across Colorado have gotten by on a federal gas tax that hasn’t been…
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HUDSON | Blame our underfunded highways on want of money, not waste
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It has been apparent for more than a decade that Colorado needs to spend more money on its roads. If you have had the occasion to travel across our borders recently, it is apparent that even blood red states like Utah, Nebraska, Kansas and Wyoming have figured out how to finance this central responsibility of…
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Colorado Counties Inc. takes positions on ballot measures
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Colorado’s counties have spoken, and there are questions, taxes and bureaucracy on the Nov. 6 ballot local leaders don’t like. The state association Colorado Counties Inc. supports a proposed statewide sales tax increase for transportation, which would carve out a 20 percent share for counties (and another 20 percent for municipalities). Proposition 110, called Let’s…
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Former Gov. Bill Owens backs Fix Our Damn Roads
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The last governor to back a bond issue for transportation is backing a new one – the one that doesn’t raise taxes. Republican Bill Owens is formally throwing his support behind the Fix Our Damn Roads proposal on the November ballot. Proposition 109, as it’s formally called, would require the legislature to issue $3.5 billion…
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Colorado Concern endorses ‘Fix Our Damn Roads’ measure
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The business coalition Colorado Concern announced its support for the “Fix Our Damn Roads” ballot question Thursday. Proposition 109, as it’s officially called, would require the Colorado legislature to prioritize spending for transportation within its existing budget rather than through new taxes as proposed by an alternative ballot measure measure. “We believe both the bill…
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Get ready for a lot more advertising from the oil and gas industry on ballot measures
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While there’s been plenty of angst about the amount of money going into the governor’s race (currently at $21.3 million and counting, just for the candidates) campaign finance reports released Tuesday show that it’s likely to be dwarfed by what the oil and gas is already pouring into committees that will do its bidding on…
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Campaign spending about to ramp up big-time for November election
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If you thought there was a lot of money spent on the primaries for statewide races, as the expression goes, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Tuesday before midnight is the next deadline for filing campaign finance reports for 69 independent expenditure committees backing legislative, gubernatorial and attorney general candidates. Then there are the candidate committees…
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Fix Our Damn Roads: No-new-taxes plan makes the Colorado ballot
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The first of two potential questions on paying for transportation qualified for Colorado’s November ballot Wednesday. Called Fix Our Damn Roads, it’s the one that doesn’t include a tax hike. The Secretary of State’s Office is still counting petitions for another question, which asks voters for a 0.62 percent boost in the state sales tax,…
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IN RESPONSE | We don’t need a tax hike to fix Colorado’s highways
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(Re: “Only one ballot issue can tackle Colorado’s transportation challenges,” Aug. 10.) Let’s fix our roads without a massive 21 percent increase of our state sales tax. The collaborative cronyists’ proposal, “Let’s Go Colorado” – a huge tax increase, allegedly for transportation – hurts everyday, hardworking Coloradans who are chasing their American dream. If the politicians, bureaucrats,…
