Ballot initiative to boost funding for Colorado’s roads could pit infrastructure against health care, education

Ballot initiative to boost funding for Colorado’s roads could pit infrastructure against health care, education

A proposed ballot initiative that would force the Colorado Legislature to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on road funding could come at the expense of health care and education, lawmakers are warning.  The initiative has yet to make it onto the ballot, but lawmakers have introduced a bill in the final days of the legislative session that would neutralize the proposal should it ultimately be passed.  The fight centers around Initiative…

Fight over road funding intensifies as Democrats seek to negate citizen initiative

The battle over road funding intensified at the state Capitol this week, where legislators are seeking to negate an initiative that supporters say is sorely needed but which critics insist would divert money from other state priorities. Supporters of the initiative questioned the timing of new legislation that emerged in the waning days of the […]