Peter Coors is Right
Why is it that at eighteen years an American can volunteer for military service and take up arms to kill and possibly die in the desert, but cant legally hoist a cold one in celebration upon returning home alive?
It is Time to Respect Non-union Teachers
When it comes to making decisions affecting where their salaries go, many teachers in Colorado SpringsSchool District11 seem to be left out of the loop.
TIF: The Hidden Cost of FasTracks
To promote DRCOG’s vision of a more compact urban area, RTD has plans to build transit-oriented developments— high-density housing combined with retail shops and offi ces—near most of the FasTracks train stations. But the market for such developments is limited. So Denver, Lakewood, and other cities plan to subsidize them using hundreds of millions of dollars of tax-increment fi nancing. In other words, any new property or sales taxes generated by the developments will be used to subsidize the developments. This means other taxpayers will have to pay for schools, fi re, police, and other costs imposed by those developments.
