It’s that time of year again, when the Denver City Council comes to you for more money, and for projects and ideas of questionable value.
Perhaps it’s time for the city government to ask what value the pension’s fund managers are adding, and whether or not they’re costing more than they’re helping.
Towards the end of the meeting, the idea of pension obligation bonds (POBs) seemed to be gaining momentum, either to fund the missed $225 million general fund payment to PERA from 2020, or to put more money into the system to help stabilize it.
GRS also identified a problem with how losses are amortized, that is, the number of years available to pay them off.
The net result is of all this is that increased vaccine pressure and mandates only make people more hesitant, in the context of an environment that tends to reinforce those biases in the first place.
The bitter irony is that should Denver ban concealed-carry, those who voted for this bill will have made such an attack all the more likely, and will be making Jewish life in our city and state more precarious.
If the legislature wants to really be progressive, they’ll stop trying to sell 19th Century ideas, and instead enable a 21st Century lifestyle.
It is at this point that I remind you that the Soviet Union and its satellites required people to register fax machines.
Colorado’s economy, as measured by employment, has been among the hardest-hit in the country by the restrictions imposed by governments in response to the coronavirus. Now, its Unemployment Insurance rules may make recovery even harder.
What if a governor were to unilaterally declare a pet political program a “public health emergency?”
Here’s how I’ll be voting on Denver’s 12 ballot measures, and a brief explanation of why.
The group is urging a no vote on two tax increase measures: Proposition EE, a statewide tobacco tax hike referred to the ballot by the State Legislature, and, Denver’s “climate action” sales tax hike, referred by the Denver City Council.
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