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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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73% of likely voters want roads fix without a tax increase0
- Jon Caldara, Newsletter, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Funding
- February 7, 2018
I thought you might enjoy some light reading while you’re stuck in traffic. We have filed our “Fix Our Damn Roads” initiative with the state. This is the first step in a long process of placing a measure on this fall’s statewide ballot to address our crumbling roads, without raising taxes. The proposal requires the
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It’s time to hit the brakes on high-speed rail spending0
- The Hill, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Funding, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- February 1, 2018
None of these projects make sense because — in case you haven’t noticed — we have this new-fangled technology called airplanes that go twice as fast as the fastest trains in the world and require almost no infrastructure, which means their costs are much lower than trains. So why are Americans so bedazzled by trains?
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Denver has a coming transit apocalypse0
- The Hill, Transportation, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- November 1, 2017
In 2004, Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD) persuaded voters to pay billions of dollars in taxes to build a 19th century rail transit system for a 21st century urban area. Thirteen years later, this experiment is increasingly proving to be a failure.
Ridership on Denver’s new R and W light-rail lines is so low that RTD is reducing train frequencies. After more than a year of operating a rail line to the airport, the agency still hasn’t figured out how to make its automatic crossing gates work reliably, a problem private railroads solved more than 80 years ago.
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Cities must end the economic apartheid of ‘growth management’0
- The Hill, TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous, TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- October 4, 2017
Boulder residents would bristle at claims they are racist, but the nation’s most progressive cities tend to be the ones that have adopted policies that make housing unaffordable and push low-income people out. Since black per capita incomes remain about 60 percent of whites, they are some of the first to leave such cities.
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