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  • Not Very Open Colorado’s Public School Open Enrollment Policies0

    • November 1, 2000

    The Colorado Public Schools of Choice Act provides for intra-district and inter-district student enrollment. Many school districts, through school board policy, are discouraging parents from exercising their right of public school choice. Clarifying the statute to protect parents from restrictive regulations is needed.

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  • Colorado’s Public School Open Enrollment Policies: Not Very Open0

    • October 2, 2000

    The Colorado Public Schools of Choice Act provides for intra-district and inter-district student enrollment. Many school districts, through school board policy, are discouraging parents from exercising their right of public school choice. Clarifying the statute to protect parents from restrictive regulations is needed.

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  • If You Can't Stand the Heat…Don't Blame Global Warming0

    • September 26, 2000

    Seventeen consecutive days with high temperatures above 90o that wilted Denver. Raging forest fires that threaten homes and parklands throughout the Western United States. Heatwaves in California and Colorado that have utility bills soaring and tempers flaring.
    It must be global warming, mustn’t it?

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  • How 'Smart Growth' Intensifies Traffic, Pollution0

    • September 25, 2000

    Residents and public officials in urban areas around the world are concerned about traffic congestion and air pollution. Of the two problems, traffic congestion is the more intractable, because improved vehicle technologies are already having a dramatic effect on improving air quality.

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  • Amendment 23: A Critique0

    • September 21, 2000

    The question asked in Amendment 23 is a very simple one: should the state raise taxes $11 billion? That is not, of course, how the proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution is presented by the teachers’ unions, but that is in fact what they are asking Colorado citizens to do. Since the teachers unions have obfuscated the issue, it is important to begin by showing how the proposed amendment would create this $11 billion fund which would mostly benefit the teachers’ union.

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  • Colorado's Anti-Transportation Policy0

    • September 20, 2000

    A century ago, with the exception of railroads, transportation in the United States was by dirt road. Similar to growing demand for mobility in today’s third world economies, the push to get America out of the mud in the early twentieth century was led by bicycle enthusiasts. Automobile ownership was a novelty. But when rising personal wealth met declining automobile costs–thanks to Henry Fords assembly line for the Model T–more and more people began to enjoy automobile ownership. The trend is irreversible.

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