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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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The secret to Colorado’s economic success? The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights
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The latest Census Bureau data released earlier this year shows that Colorado’s population has grown by nearly two-thirds since 1992, one of the fastest increases in the country. If you are part of the more than 2 million new residents who have arrived over this time, there are a few things you should know: Avoid I-70 on…
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INSIGHTS: Potholes line road ahead on transportation
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This isn’t going to end well. I only need math – addition, subtraction and simple division – to understand the political equation of Colorado’s desperate need to fund transportation and the long odds to do it. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and a collection of allies across the state are asking registered voters to…
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FEEDBACK | Polis’ plans for our tax dollars
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Federal tax cuts are a win-win for Colorado Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis is attempting to pull the rug out from under hardworking Coloradans by repealing the recent federal tax reform. His “Students Over Special Interests Act” supposedly would use the money from the tax cut to cancel federal student loan debt. Yet,…
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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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FEEDBACK | Teachers, guns & money — and more
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More money into the system – or better pay for the best teachers? The recent opinion piece from Colorado teacher Jill Cullis shed some light on the problems facing Colorado’s schools. Recent increases in funding, with the bulk of those dollars not going to teachers’ salaries, is the real problem. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we should…
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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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Heavily amended transportation bill passes House committee
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A legislative committee heavily amended a transportation funding bill Thursday morning, setting up a beat-the-clock showdown for perhaps the session’s biggest issue: relieving traffic congestion and addressing long-neglecting roads, bridges and transit. Senate Bill 1 passed on an 8-7 party-line vote and still must pass the House Finance Committee before reaching full chamber for a…
