scott wasserman
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Colo. House Democrats eye late overhaul on transportation
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With a week left in the legislative session, Colorado House Democrats are poised to introduce a major overhaul to a transportation bill that passed the state Senate unanimously more than a month ago. The change is significant. Rather than asking for permission to borrow $3.5 billion and repay it with $250 million a year from…
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Business leaders urge Colorado House to fund transportation
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A group of business leaders Monday called on the legislature to do, well, something to make sure more tax dollars go into Colorado’s long-neglected transportation system. At a Capitol press conference, they urged the passage of Senate Bill 1, which is pending in the House. The bill would obligate $250 million a year from the state…
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Q&A with Scott Wasserman: ‘The best politics are centered around policy debates, not culture wars’
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The Bell Policy Center is by many accounts the brain trust of Colorado’s center-left. Meet the brain-truster in chief, Scott Wasserman. Going on two years now as the think tank’s president, Wasserman helms an operation that provides a knowledge base and idea incubator for many of the state’s leading Democratic policy makers. But Wasserman doesn’t…
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Bell Policy Center asks Colorado lawmakers to ‘stop digging’ for tax cuts, transportation
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Two left-leaning policy think tanks in Denver are calling out the Colorado legislature to put people over roads in transportation and tax-cut bills. “Colorado is one of the strongest state economies in the country, it’s in a ‘hole’ when it comes to funding the public supports that help many Colorado families and communities thrive,” states…
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Bell Policy Center chief: We’re not free in a predatory economy
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You can’t pick yourself up by the bootstraps if your feet are chained to the floor. Debt is preventing Americans from moving up and our increasingly predatory economy makes that possible. This year, Colorado’s General Assembly closed the “Zombie Debt” loophole in our Fair Debt Collections Practices Act. It was an important win for consumers,…
