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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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Hickenlooper delays decision on special session for transportation funding, other topics
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Gov. John Hickenlooper hadn’t yet decided on Monday whether to call a special session to come up with more funding for the state’s transportation needs, among other topics he said were left unfinished in the General Assembly’s 120-day regular session. While Hickenlooper called it “the most productive legislative session” since he took office in 2011,…
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Hickenlooper: Let the public vote on transportation funding solution
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Gov. John Hickenlooper is calling on lawmakers to make good on pledges by legislative leadership on both sides of the aisle to find solutions to Colorado’s transportation funding needs by sending a ballot measure to voters. Bipartisan legislation that would ask voters to approve a sales-tax hike — originally it was 0.62 percent, but a Republican-controlled Senate…
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Duran, Grantham unveil deal to raise sales tax, fund $3.5 billion in transportation bonds
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A long-awaited transportation funding deal introduced by Colorado lawmakers Wednesday proposes asking voters to approve a sales-tax hike in November to pay for $3.5 billion in bonds for road construction, as well as other transit projects. Majority leaders in the House and Senate hailed the package as a “breakthrough” but also cautioned that the bill…
