Transportation and Jobs
More over at the Northern Colorado Job Watch.
How About Some Friday Scare Tactics?
In Greg Speer's op-ed in the Coloradoan today about the Glade Reservoir project: "The ultimate cost will be the demise of the Cache la Poudre River as we know it as it flows through Fort Collins."
Monfort Grads Scoring High
In the Tribune:
Graduating seniors at the University of Northern Colorado's Monfort College of Business have again scored in the Top 5 percent collectively on a nationally-administered exit examination.
Johnstown Elections
The Reporter-Herald has a round-up of the Mayoral candidates' forum.
The Budget
Here's a pretty good overview of the budget battle in the legislature.
Democrats said House passage of a $17.6 billion state budget bill Thursday means a brighter future for Colorado’s children but Republicans warned that inadequate reserves cloud that promise.
After fiery debate, the House voted 40-24 for the bill that now goes to the Senate where Republicans said they will press their case that more money needs to be set aside in these tough economic times.
McCain and Romney in Denver
From the Post:
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who lost overwhelmingly here last month to Mitt Romney, is now being embraced by Colorado Republicans as "conservative enough" to win the White House in November.
McCain appeared in Denver on Thursday, flanked by prominent Colorado Republicans and his former rival Romney, who beat the Arizona senator at the Colorado caucuses last month 59 percent to 19 percent.
Education Plan, Still Vague, Advances
Governor Ritter's bipartisan overhaul of education is moving forward. We don't know much about it, other than that it "calls for revision of the public school curriculum to help students
meet a new definition of readiness for college or the workplace."
Exactly how the new system will look is unclear because SB 212 leaves key details of the reforms to the state Board of Eduction and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.
I-70 Toll Plan to the Full Senate
McElhany's bill would charge I-70 drivers a toll of up to $5 each way at booths near the Eisenhower Tunnel to fund $3.5 billion in highway improvements between there and Floyd Hill.
