Public K-12 Online Education: Stop the Discrimination
Technology is expanding opportunities in education. Today elementary and secondary students can enroll in an online education program and never walk into a brick and mortar building. Students can take most any class online, even art and music. They usually communicate with a teacher through e-mail and telephone. Students can enroll in a private program and pay tuition, or enroll in a public program through a Colorado public school district for free. Through a law passed in 1998, the State of Colorado sanctioned online public education programs. All public education online programs are supervised by local school districts according to state guidelines, just like brick and mortar public schools.
Should Colorado Spend $50 Million On Studying Disney- Style Mountain Monorail?
Enough studies! If this tax grab passes, it will add, at minimum, another three years until we even begin to fix the traffic problem on I-70. Despite the impression given, this proposal does not build a monorail, or anything else, in the mountain corridor. It is just another study replicating work being done by the Colorado and Federal Departments of Transportation. It will, however, cost every couple in Colorado about $40 out of their tax refunds.
Should Colorado Spend $50 Million On Studying Disney- Style Mountain Monorail?
Enough studies! If this tax grab passes, it will add, at minimum, another three years until we even begin to fix the traffic problem on I-70. Despite the impression given, this proposal does not build a monorail, or anything else, in the mountain corridor. It is just another study replicating work being done by the Colorado and Federal Departments of Transportation. It will, however, cost every couple in Colorado about $40 out of their tax refunds.
Should Gun Shows Be Outlawed McCain bill does much more than impose background checks
Prepared by Alan Korwin, David Kopel and Linda Gorman Executive Summary There is no gun show loophole. Guns sales at gun shows are currently subject to exactly the same laws as apply to gun sales anywhere else. Research for the U.S. Department of Justice, by scholars, and even by Sarah Brady#39;s organization shows that gun […]
RTD Is Afraid of Private Sector Competition
The Regional Transportation District (RTD) will not allow Coloradans to have real transit solutions such as jitney service. A jitney is a privately owned minibus that carries passengers from point to point on a flexible schedule.
In 1989, the Florida legislature accidentally created a legal loophole that permitted competitive, unregulated services like jitneys. Within months, over 20 jitney firms had emerged to serve the accidentally created market. Before this loophole, certain regulated jitneys were allowed to operate in conjunction with the Miami version of RTD, Metrobus.
Transportation Terrorism
Usually a terrorist is an extremist hijacking an airliner and holding innocent passengers hostage. Currently the FTA (Federal Transit Agency) is holding mobility hostage to extort Colorado citizens.
Solving the Bully Problem: Think in 3-D
An assertion that keeps popping up in the national discussion on school violence is that the perpetrators all seemed to have been subjected to bullying of one kind or another. Having no way to escape being tormented, we are told, some victims of bullying are driven to acts of gross violence. Therefore, goes the argument, we must provide a solution to the problem of bullying, lest other kids, driven to the point of desperation, also resort to mayhem and murder.
Implementing a Just Tax System in Colorado and Strengthening Our Fiscal Constitution
Over much of our history Coloradans have successfully constrained the growth of government through our fiscal constitution. Our State Constitution embodied fiscal rules designed to constrain the power of government to tax and spend, rules requiring a balanced budget, debt limits, and voting and procedural rules. Our fiscal constitution has served us well; our state prospered due in no small part to the fiscal rules embodied in our constitution. However, in the post-WWII period it was clear that our fiscal rules were not constraining the growth of government. Both state and local governments increased taxes and spending grew at rates far in excess of the growth of the private economy. This unconstrained growth of government triggered a tax revolt beginning in the late 1970’s.
Car-Hating Puritans are Destroying Colorado
Colorado House Bill 1329 gives a new dimension of meaning to the old phrase fiddling while Rome burns. As the state of Colorado continues to grow, traffic congestion continues to worsen. There is no relief in sight, as current plans do not provide the capacity that will be required to even maintain, much less restore Colorados high quality lifestyle.
Roads Are Freedom
Mobility is power. In fact, mobility is empowerment. Show me a man who can travel only as far as his legs will take him and I will show you a man in despair. But, today there is a war against mobility and its politically incorrect components: cars, roads, and drivers. These tools of empowerment are routinely vilified, when in fact they should be celebrated.
Smart Growth: More Traffic Congestion and Air Pollution
Americans have moved to the suburbs: Over the past 50 years, Americas suburbs have grown to contain most urban residents. As the nation has become more affluent, people have chosen to live in single-family dwellings on individual lots and have also obtained automobiles to provide unprecedented mobility.
Partisan School Boards
In Jefferson County, the thirteenth-largest school district in the U.S., the education of nearly one-hundred thousand students is controlled by a five member, volunteer school board selected in a “non-partisan” election. Not that these folks have no agenda, political leanings, or party affiliations. Rather, those preferences are carefully hidden from voters by an officially sanctioned process that pretends to absolute neutrality, but in fact exacerbates the worst aspects of special interest campaigns.
