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Colo. House advances transportation bill
The Colorado House of Representatives passed one of the most important bills of the session – to pump billions of dollars into transportation – Tuesday morning with 36 hours left in the four-month General Assembly. Senate Bill 1 was the first piece of legislation to be introduced this session. It passed the House on a…
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Monument meeting provides talk on funding for ‘the gap’
Dozens of people met Saturday at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument to tell the Tri-Lakers on how its going with Interstate 25’s lane expansion called simple “the gap.” Their trips north and back is a visible reminder of Colorado’s traffic problems, a double whammy of growth and neglect. The legislature hasn’t put much money into…
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Funt: Fees, fines and fairness
Which best describes your view of America? Everyone pays an equal share? Or, everyone pays his fair share? Both sound reasonable. One hinges on equality, the other on fairness – two principles we generally embrace. But as I wrote in The New York Times the other day, we are increasingly becoming a nation of haves…