Colorado PoliticsElections are decisions, and Colorado voters clearly favored some over others this year. Here's Colorado Politics' take on who came out on top in the Colorado midterms.
Jim AlexeeThe Sierra Club, Colorado’s largest grassroots group committed to protecting our air, water, land and people, has voted to endorse Proposition 110. Why are we weighing in on transportation? Well, the cars and trucks we drive (and getting the oil and gas that power them) is the largest source of air pollution in the metro area, and one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce pollution, we need to switch to cleaner cars and electric vehicles – but we also need better transportation infrastructure that gives us more options in how we travel, and lets us spend less time stuck in traffic. That’s where Proposition 110 comes in.
Joey BunchColoradans aren't in the mood to raise the state sales tax to pay for a broad array of transportation solutions, a new poll indicates.
The first of two potential questions on paying for transportation qualified for Colorado's November ballot Wednesday. Called Fix Our Damn Roads, it's the one that doesn't include a tax hike.
Let’s Go Colorado is expected to announce Monday that it has turned in enough petitions to get a 0.62 statewide sales tax on the November ballot.
Colorado's former attorney general John Suthers thinks the state has enough in taxes to put $3.5 billion into transportation.
I was cruising right along through Miller Hudson’s essay (“Is independent thought making a comeback at the legislature?” May 29) until I came to his surprising conclusion — that the breakthroughs achieved by the state legislature in the last two sessions would somehow multiply if independent or third-party candidates win more seats in the election in November.
Miller HudsonThere were several flashes of bipartisan compromise at the close of the legislative session that provide a glimmer of hope for the emergence of a Colorado First political majority. It’s not a sure thing by a long shot, but it feels like our major political parties are starting to respond to pressure from voters who are enlisting in the “Lets get something done, even if we have to pay for it…” caucus. The legislature’s eleventh-hour approval last year for a reclassification of the hospital provider fee, exempting these revenues from TABOR spending restrictions, proved a harbinger for what transpired this year. During the closing hours of the 2018 session transportation funding, phase 2 of a PERA bailout, redistricting reform and more were pushed across the finish line.
Dan NjegomirNo one has to tell Denver-area mayors there's a traffic problem in the booming and sprawling metroplex.
Think of Tony Milo as Colorado’s Lorax. Only, instead of speaking for trees like the Dr. Seuss character, Milo advocates for the state’s infrastructure.