fix our damn roads
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Transportation measures’ backers park petitions at secretary of state’s office
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Supporters of two transportation measures proposed for Colorado’s November ballot jockeyed for first position at the Secretary of State’s Office when it opened at 7 a.m. Monday to turn in petitions. One measure, Initiative 153, would raise the state sales tax by about 6 cents on a $10 purchase, effective Jan. 1, to finance bonds for…
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Fix Our Damn Roads to sue the Greeley Stampede
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The Greeley Stampede rodeo and fair has lassoed some legal trouble over free speech. The leader of ballot initiative Fix Our Damn Roads, Jon Caldara, president of the conservative Independence Institute in Denver, said the Stampede prevented signature gatherers from asking people going in and leaving the event if they wanted to sign the petition. Caldara…
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Colorado Springs Mayor Suthers endorses Fix Our Damn Roads
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Colorado’s former attorney general and Colorado Springs’ current mayor favors using existing tax money over new taxes to fix Colorado’s roads. Jon Caldara announced Friday that John Suthers had endorsed the proposed ballot measure to force the state legislature to put $3.5 billion into transportation improvements, including widening Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 to address…
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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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2018 Colo. legislature: What’s next on the issues that drove the session?
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The biggest issues of the 120-day Colorado legislative session are far from done just because they’ve been voted on. Transportation is still a snowball rolling downhill toward November, and the dollars that will eventually be steered into roads, bridges and transit are hardly settled. Lawmakers created a $32 billion solution to the state’s public-pension plan,…
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Fix Our Damn Roads could ask Colo. voters to force lawmakers to use existing taxes
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Fix Our Damn Roads, a ballot initiative to force Colorado lawmakers to spend existing taxes on transportation instead of a new one, will soon receive signatures from like-minded voters. The effort is counter to a proposal being considered by a coalition led by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which could ask voters to approve…
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Independence calls it quits on ‘Fix Our Damn Roads’ — but promises it will be back
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The highway-funding ballot proposal by the Independence Institute that kind of was – though many were skeptical – won’t be, after all. You may recall the libertarian-leaning Denver think tank had announced in March it had filed a ballot proposal with the state that would require the General Assembly to issue $2.5 billion in bonds to fund a raft of highway…
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Caldara’s alternative transportation-funding proposal lands a Title Board hearing
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The dead serious transportation-funding ballot initiative submitted by Colorado political prankster Jon Caldara is scheduled to land before the state Title Board next week Wednesday. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 9:30 A.M., at the Secretary of State’s office. It’s difficult to imagine that no one plans to mount a legal challenge…
