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Colorado: Metro

May 21, 2009 - 10:21 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Metro mayors back year delay on RTD tax vote

Denver-area mayors have reversed course and now favor a year's delay and a November 2010 vote on a sales-tax increase for RTD's FasTracks transit program.

On June 2, the Regional Transportation District board of directors is expected to back the mayors' recommendation and set the vote for next year.

In March, the Metro Mayors Caucus, which includes about 40 area mayors, backed a proposal for a vote in November in the eight-county metro area on a proposal to double the current 0.4 percent FasTracks sales tax.

Such an increase — whether this year or next — would close a $2.2 billion shortfall in FasTracks funding that has developed because of shrinking sales-tax collections and higher-than-planned construction costs.

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February 27, 2009 - 01:17 pm
NEWS FEED: Face the State

Leading conservatives saying yes to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

While Republican leaders in Colorado have voiced vocal opposition in recent years to providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, a handful of leading conservatives are now coming out in support of a legislative effort proposed by Democrats to allow Coloradans in-state tuition at the state's public colleges and universities regardless of immigration status.

"Republican businessmen understand the need for immigration reform," said Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, who is sponsoring Senate Bill 170, which would specifically require that a person, "regardless of immigration status, who attends a Colorado high school for at least three years and enrolls in a Colorado institute of higher education within five years after either graduating from a Colorado high school or earning a GED shall be charged the same tuition rate and shall be eligible for tuition assistance under the same criteria as a person who establishes domicile in Colorado.

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February 24, 2009 - 12:19 pm
NEWS FEED: Face the State

Auraria campus home to new conservative student-run newspaper

As newspapers across the country struggle to keep their presses printing, a coalition of libertarian and conservative students at Denver's Auraria campus is publishing a new newspaper called The Constitutional Reporter.

The students, who attend Metropolitan State College and the University of Colorado Denver, say the bi-weekly newspaper will focus on campus, local, state, and national issues with a focus on promoting limited government. The student staff is overseen by Sean Doherty, a 22-year-old marketing and political science major at Metro who previously organized a "pirate protest" against Congresswoman Diana DeGette's approval of 2008's bank bailout.

Doherty says he got the idea to start a newspaper as a freshman, when he become frustrated with the

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February 2, 2009 - 03:24 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Traffic gridlock costs Colorado drivers $1.3 billion annually

By Wendy Norris

With all the caterwauling about the real or feigned economic firepower of the federal transportation stimulus package, here’s something you can take to the bank — lousy roads are costing local drivers a pile of money.

A 2005 report compiled by the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) offers some wallet-squeezing numbers on how much time and gasoline is wasted idling on the nation’s roadways because of traffic congestion. Nationally, the TTI team estimates snarled traffic created a $78 billion annual drain on the economy.

Denver-Aurora Metro area commuters are spending an eye-popping 65 million hours more than expected in traffic, which burned 42.5 million gallons in excess fuel for a staggering total cost of $1.

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