Using the legislature to try and gain an edge over competition and to fight the people you have to work with is an all to common but ineffective way to go about business. It’s the main reason home builders can’t afford to buy the insurance they need to build reasonably priced condominiums.
“People with low incomes” are most vulnerable to the supermarkets’ sly manipulation of product placement, according to Cohen. Such condescension is a hallmark of progressives, who are eager to protect the poor from themselves. They don’t have much money, and so they need help on how to spend it.
Sponsoring Sen. Laura Woods, R-Arvada, suffered the unhappy distinction of failing to get a bill through a committee her own party controls. But she promised later to bring back the bill next year. She said that Guzman, who voted against her, even encouraged her to do so.
A group called Colorado Consumers for Choice, backed by the supermarkets, is working up an initiative for the 2016 ballot that would permit all groceries to sell wine, beer and, possibly, stronger liquors.
The original civil forfeiture laws were enacted decades ago supposedly to help law enforcement go after big criminal syndicates. But in fact they are used to go after small-timers, especially poor defendants who can’t afford lawyers
…You could theoretically transfer the Colorado Department of Transportation into the secretary of state’s office and have its expenses paid by fees as well. Then you could ramp up the highway budget by hiking the “fees” and never have to ask the public to approve an increase in the state gasoline tax or car registration taxes.
Littleton currently has four separate urban renewal projects going, despite the colossal failure of its Riverfront project back in the 1980s. That is reported to have cost the city $9 million — and the private investors almost three times that.
Multi-modal transportation projects…That apparently is politically correct, tarted-up newspeak for a state-owned bus line. With that language, CDOT crossed the bright divide between maintaining the infrastructure for the citizenry and using it for its own purposes.
Multi-modal transportation projects…That apparently is politically correct, tarted-up newspeak for a state-owned bus line. With that language, CDOT crossed the bright divide between maintaining the infrastructure for the citizenry and using it for its own purposes.
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The new St. Joseph Hospital was indeed opening for business, on time and slightly under budget. Meanwhile for the VA Hospital, plans kept changing and costs kept going up.
…when the bonds for a project are typically paid off in 25 years, “you’re about ready to tear it down and build another one. So you never get any of the tax increment.”
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