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- August 5, 2011
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RTD Is Afraid of Private Sector Competition0
- TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- August 22, 2001
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.
READ MOREWhy Ilios Matters0
- JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials
- July 26, 2001
At a recent dinner party, the talk turned to the City of Denver’s use of condemnation to allow Mile High Development to get the property Ilios restaurant occupies to build a parking garage.
One friend asked, “How can they get away with that?” “They” referring to Mile High Development and their real estate agents in the Denver City Council.
READ MOREDenver’s New Welfare Hotel0
- JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials
- June 6, 2001
A funny thing happened to the Denver City Council’s and Mayor Webb’s plan to grant a 60 million-dollar corporate welfare subsidy to the proposed convention center hotel. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union made good on their vow and raised the necessary signatures to place the issue on the November ballot.
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Boeing, Boeing, Gone0
- JUSTICE - Opinion Editorials
- May 18, 2001
The exercise in self-degradation by Colorado local and state government officials before the altar of all things Boeing continues. The latest in the saga was a super-secret, closed-door, no-media-allowed April 11th meeting in Denver between some Boeing reps and state and local economic development officials.
READ MORETransportation Terrorism0
- TRANSPORTATION - Op Eds
- May 10, 2001
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.
READ MORESolving the Bully Problem: Think in 3-D0
- EDUCATION - Opinion Editorials
- May 2, 2001
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.
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