Tag: Transportation

The MCA café has quite a view across the Central Platte Valley bridges, arching like white, wispy bones of cranes repairing connections time has broken, bringing people back forsaken land gorged by this century’s vision of city.

Asked why he was Colorado's lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his "preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.”

Several conservation, sportsmen and wildlife groups in Colorado asked the state’s three gubernatorial candidates, Democrat John Hickenlooper, Republican Dan Maes and American Constitution Party...

Thursday, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, announced that he voted against the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act and attacked Democrats for passing it....

Lawmakers and policy people who advance private-sector solutions for public-service needs talk about competition-- competition like maybe the kind we got with the Colorado...

Two Democrats who lost out in a nasty election for the Garfield County board of commissioners last year say the main reason they were targeted by the oil and gas industry was something that happened earlier in 2008 in neighboring Rio Blanco County.

The Denver Post reported Saturday that the $400 million in federal stimulus funds Colorado will be spending in the next year or so on roads will be used to pay for work on "small jobs" instead of on "tackling the state's most pressing roads needs," like expanding I-70. The Post's regretful story has the tone right but the reasoning wrong, evincing the same kind of shortsightedness that dogs the stimulus program in general.

More people ski more days in Colorado than any other state, but you wouldn’t know it out on the open road, unless you’re stuck in weekend skier traffic on I-70.

It’s still unclear just how much of the $90.2 million in federal stimulus money headed Colorado’s way for urban transit will go to RTD’s FasTracks commuter and light-rail, but what is abundantly clear is it won’t be enough.

The Colorado Senate GOP filibuster that went into the wee hours of Monday morning makes for high political drama and probably some juicy negative ad fodder for the next campaign cycle. But there were 14 elephants who forgot their own roles in the transportation funding crisis. Referendum D, anyone?