Boulder County's Recycling Woes
The reasons given range from the sublime to the ridiculous.nbsp; President Clinton hauled out the old Washington Monument ploy, threatening that breathtaking cuts in every area of our national life that you would believe was important would result from small tax cuts.nbsp; Economists call this maneuver the Washington Monument ploy, in honor of the U.S. […]
Abortion Distortion
After 20 years of automatically funding Planned Parenthood, the Colorado health department finally put the contract for rural women’s health services out to bid. In an even more radical step, Jane Norton, the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, announced that obeying the law would be a requirement for prospective bidders. Article 5, Section 50 of the Colorado Constitution forbids using public funds to “pay or otherwise reimburse” any entity “either directly or indirectly” for the performing an induced abortion. Money is fungible and Planned Parenthood does abortions. It cannot bid.
"Rail to Vail" Proposal is Wasteful and Useless
A few have called it “visionary.” For most taxpayers, however, the “Rail to Vail” proposal is best described as “wasteful and useless.” It will eat up billions of our scarce tax dollars and provide literally no benefits to most Coloradoans.
Anyone who has driven I-70 into the mountains knows that traffic congestion is a problem at certain times and that the problem is getting worse. The issue is how to solve the problem in the most cost-effective manner. There are better, proven technologies to solve traffic congestion on I-70. The last unproven technology we bought was the DIA baggage system, and now some people want to build one that you can stick people into and launch them over the Continental Divide!
