NISP Timeline (and Debate)
The Greeley Tribune offers a helpful timeline for the NISP Glade project.
The debate continues in the Coloradoan. And in the Reporter-Herald. The anti-storage brigades are trying to argue the facts laid out in the EIS report.
Meanwhile, one of the arguments that the Save the Poudre coalition has been making, that NISP will somehow dry up ag land, has been thoroughly debunked by the EIS report.
Higher Ed Funding Editorial
It's time to make the dream of higher education an affordable reality.
For starters, we need to rethink two key components of our state constitution that have impacted state funding of higher education in recent years. The 1992 Taxpayers' Bill of Rights limits government spending and tax increases and requires tax refunds in flush years. On the flipside, Amendment 23 mandates a 1 percent annual increase in funding of K-12 schools on top of inflation adjustments.
As a result of these two conflicting amendments -- one essentially limiting government growth and the other mandating that it grow -- higher education has been shortchanged. Add in the fluctuations of an economy, and the problem grows even bigger.
Post Editorial: Not a Glowing Review for the Legislature
Maybe we should call them the do-nothing legislature of 2008:
One week from its mandated adjournment date, the Colorado legislature is putting unnecessary resolutions and in-your-face attacks on the insurance industry ahead of four items that are vital to Colorado's future.
The Post notes that the House spent an hour on Wednesday debating the Sand Creek Massacre and wryly comments:
To no one's surprise, the House decided it didn't like the 144-year-old massacre.
And they single out Morgan Carroll's latest price control scheme for disdain:
One reason the Senate hasn't taken on transportation is that it's been too busy with anti-business gestures like Rep. Morgan Carroll's House Bill 1389, which gives state bureaucrats the power to set rates for health insurance companies. Such government price controls have had an unbroken record of failure since the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued his Edict on Maximum Prices in 301 A.D.
That's going to leave a mark.
More on Ballot Brinksmanship
Peter Blake calls it "shock and awe".
