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Cigarette smuggling to rocket with tobacco tax hike0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, Justice, JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials, JUSTICE - Overcriminalization
- August 25, 2016
Research shows high excise taxes invite scofflaws to traffic in illicit cigarettes, encourage corruption among public officials and trigger violence against people, property and police.
READ MOREHB 1283: Prescription drug monitoring bill does more harm than good0
- JUSTICE - Drug Policy, JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials, JUSTICE - Publications
- March 19, 2014
by Ari Armstrong Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem, sometimes a fatal one. But the answer is not for the government to monitor and harass people who suffer from devastating pain — and make it harder for them to manage their pain — in a misguided attempt to save drug abusers from themselves. Unfortunately,
READ MOREDon’t let Clements tragedy derail Colorado’s criminal justice reform efforts0
- JUSTICE - Blog, JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials, JUSTICE - Prison Spending and Sentencing
- April 10, 2013
Let’s not allow a tragedy to undo years of careful work toward sound policy reforms.
READ MORELegislature Has the Chance to Set a Standard on 640
- JUSTICE - Drug Policy, JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials, JUSTICE - Publications
- December 26, 2012
by Harris Kenny and Leonard Gilroy Last month Colorado voters resoundingly passed Amendment 64 into the state constitution, legalizing both recreational marijuana and industrial hemp. So far, realizing the will of the voters is on track, but implementation risks threaten to undermine the intentions behind Amendment 64. Policy makers are contending with thriving black markets
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Congress should approve Trump’s effort to stop funding local transit boondoggles0
- Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- May 17, 2017
by Randal O’Toole President Trump has proposed to stop funding new New Starts projects. New Starts, along with its subsidiary program Small Starts, is a multi-billion-dollar fund created by Congress, and funneled through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), that gives cities incentives to build the most expensive transit systems possible so they can get “their
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Congress should approve Trump’s effort to stop funding local transit boondoggles0
- The Hill, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- May 2, 2017
President Trump has proposed to stop funding new New Starts projects. New Starts, along with its subsidiary program Small Starts, is a multi-billion-dollar fund created by Congress, and funneled through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), that gives cities incentives to build the most expensive transit systems possible so they can get “their share” of the “free” federal dollars.
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A Decade of Colorado Road and Transportation Spending in Pictures0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Backgrounders, Linda Gorman, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Issue Backgrounders
- March 28, 2017
The roughly $300 million a year that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says it needs to fill the state’s road spending deficit is less than 2 pennies out of each dollar of total state spending.
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Caldara’s Newsletter 03-23-170
- Jon Caldara, Newsletter, Transportation
- March 23, 2017
Lately, I have felt very loved by the editorial section of the Denver Post! Regarding our proposal to force the state legislature to do their damn jobs and Fix Our Damn Roads by re-prioritizing an obscene, unimaginable 2% of the budget towards roads, the editorial board wrote, “What our bungled state budget doesn’t need is
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