How to Cut Fares to the New Airport0

• October 20, 1993

Sixteen dollars for a one-way trip to Denver’s new International Airport? That’s what RTD says it needs to cover costs. But $16 seems much too much. It’s more than many travelers can afford, and more than others will tolerate. Virtually everyone, including RTD, agrees the proposed fares ought to be reduced. The tough question is how to go about actually delivering the lower fares everybody wants. By increasing subsidies? Restructuring service? Cutting costs?

Taken For A Ride: How the Taxi Cartel and the State Are Disserving Denver's Economy0

• April 14, 1993

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has blocked new competitors from entering Denver’s three-firm taxicab market for nearly half a century. Job creation and entrepreneurship, especially for low income people are hurt by this policy…

Quality Alternatives To Government Schools In Greater Denver0

• October 26, 1992

Here is evidence that if Amendment 7 passes on Nov. 3, Parents in the countries of Denver, Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson, and Douglas will be able to take vouchers into an independent and church related educational sector that is socially inclusive, responsive to harder-to-educate children, quality-driven, and remarkably affordable.

Data in this issue paper, obtained through an Independence Institute survey of 48 schools and state records on 100 others, support that characterization. They contradict the bleak picture of an expensive, exclusive, unaccountable nonpublic sector as commonly portrayed by voucher opponents.
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Heavy Job Losses Foreseen If Tax Hike Passes0

• October 16, 1992

Amendment 6, Gov. Roy Romer’s school tax increase proposal, could cost Colorado 57,000 jobs if Romer’s own economic and political assumptions are correct. A leading economic researcher says the loss could reach 75,000 jobs. No one foresees an economic boost from the tax.

How Not To Improve The Schools0

• October 16, 1992

Children First, the sales tax and school reform proposal facing voters on Nov. 3, is fiscally unnecessary because next year’s revenue estimates have made a “nonexistent bogeyman” of Gov. Roy Romer’s alleged 12% funding cut. In addition, the measure is educationally counterproductive because it would disempower families and school districts, and economically harmful because it would destroy up to 75,000 jobs.

Amendment Six Puts Taxpayers Last0

• August 25, 1992

Introduction by the Editor: Everyone agrees our kids and their schools deserve first priority. But must it be done by giving our hard-working Colorado taxpayers last priority? Such would be the effect of Amendment Six, the misnamed “Children First Initiative” which teacher unions and Gov. Roy Romer want voters to approve on Nov. 3.