Tag: Transportation
Lawmakers at odds on competing oil and gas severance tax amendments
State lawmakers and energy experts are hotly debating a pair of dueling oil and gas severance tax questions on the Nov. 4 ballot, with even some Republicans divided on Amendment 52, which is being touted by conservatives as an alternative to Gov. Bill Ritter’s Amendment 58 tax hike.
Ethics Watch targets GOP lawmakers backing Amendment 52
A Denver-based nonprofit legal watchdog group filed suit in Denver District Court Tuesday against three Republican state lawmakers, asking a judge to compel them to fully comply with an open-records request relating to their correspondence about Amendment 52.
Colorado’s monster ballot longest in the nation
With a record 18 proposals on everything from oil and gas taxes to unions to the developmentally disabled to gambling, Colorado voters will be weighing in on the longest ballot in Colorado since 1912 — and the largest in the United States this year.
Obama and McCain on the issues
With Barack Obama and John McCain less than three weeks away from their first presidential debate, Stateline.org, a nonpartisan online news site, has come up with a virtual tete-a-tete between the two candidates.
Did Someone Say Tax Hike? No, Of Course Not
Getting politicians to talk about tax increases is like trying to turn cougars into house cats.
It just ain't natural.
So as the costs for improvements...
Valley Symposium: Looking into the Crystal Ball
The Roaring Fork/Eagle County region in Western Colorado is sometimes identified as the Golden Triangle. The social and economic boundaries stretch from Aspen to...
Toll Road Sale Drives Hummer of a Question: Why?
Part one of a multi-part series on Colorado toll roads.
Local activists are calling it the "Broomdoggle."
The sale of the financially troubled Northwest Parkway...
Tired of West I-70 Traffic Constipation? Take This
UPDATED: Are you a skier who gets jammed-up every winter Sunday afternoon on eastbound I-70? Are weather related road blockages getting you down on...
Watching Out For Johnny Law
Don't say you weren't warned.
The Colorado State Patrol has gotten an injection of cash and will be upping their busting capacity - or what...
Iraq and Other Issues: Interview with Will Shafroth
There are lots of ways in which the war in Iraq is unlike the one fought Vietnam a generation ago. But one similarity is...