highway funding
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Both transportation proposals on the ballot ignore user pay, are unfair to taxpayers
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Proposition 110 and 109 do not create fair funding for our highways. Currently Colorado taxes gasoline and diesel fuel, with all users of our highways helping to maintain and improve our highways. Colorado and out-of-state businesses pay over 18 percent of the Colorado fuel tax (for diesel fuel) to support highways. Propositions 110 and 109…
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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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FEEDBACK | Stapleton unfairly targeted; vehicle registration is no bargain
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Blamed for the sins of our fathers? Really? (Re: Recent news coverage about gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Ben Stapleton, who as Denver mayor in the 1920s had been a member of the KKK.) Isn’t it a legal precedent dating back millennia that children cannot be punished for the misdeeds of their parents? Is the…
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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,…
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Q&A with Sandra Hagen Solin | A Capitol insider talks transportation, #MeToo
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Sandra Hagen Solin is among those lobbyists who are pretty much at the top of their game at the Capitol and beyond – having recently brought the 25-year-old firm she founded and owns, Capitol Solutions, under the umbrella of the national law firm Kutak Rock to head up and build its government-relations practice. “I have the…
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BIDLACK | There’s no news in good news — or in good government
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Did you hear the one about the time the government worked efficiently and made everyone happy? I’m betting not, but I strongly believe that government actually works pretty well for most people most of the time. It’s common to assert that our elected officials and the bureaucracy they oversee are all a bunch of thieving…
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WALKER STAPLETON: We can tackle transportation without a tax hike
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Colorado’s roads and bridges have fallen into disrepair. The state’s growing population, history of underfunding transportation, and bureaucratic inefficiency have had real consequences for the condition of our infrastructure. As a result, Colorado has a $9 billion funding gap and maintenance backlog. These costs will only continue to grow the longer we neglect our transportation…
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DONNA LYNNE: A statewide sales-tax increase — that meets local needs
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Whether it is driving across failing bridges, battling congestion on your way to work or footing the bill for repairs to your car caused by potholes, I know you have a transportation horror story. You aren’t alone. With nearly half of Colorado’s major roads and highways in poor or mediocre condition, these stories are the…
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HUDSON | Is independent thought making a comeback at the legislature?
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There were several flashes of bipartisan compromise at the close of the legislative session that provide a glimmer of hope for the emergence of a Colorado First political majority. It’s not a sure thing by a long shot, but it feels like our major political parties are starting to respond to pressure from voters who…
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Q&A with Marc Williams | Arvada’s mayor wants statewide transportation solution
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No one has to tell Denver-area mayors there’s a traffic problem in the booming and sprawling metroplex. Over at the State Capitol, it may still be a partisan issue – “their transportation plan” vs. “ours” – but for Colorado’s nonpartisan mayors, politics takes a back seat to the need for a viable, lasting solution. Just…
