Monday, February 15th, 2010
The Daily Camera (Boulder) asked its Editorial Advisory Board members their views of different sales tax schemes for funding RTD's "FasTracks." My reply was published on Saturday, February 13:
Adaptable commuter transit routes, reducing traffic congestion with demand-sensitive road pricing, and minimizing both free-riders and forced funding. These goals should guide ...
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
A "speech from the throne." That's how Thomas Jefferson viewed public delivery of the annual speech. Starting with Jefferson's presidency, and ending in 1913, a clerk read the president's message to Congress.
How times have changed. Now the president reads the address, but others write it. Nor is the address to ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Background from Daily Camera:
Shopping in Boulder could get greener if some local students have their way. Inspired in part by a ban that passed in San Francisco in 2007, New Vista High and University of Colorado students are drafting an ordinance that would prohibit businesses -- such as grocery stores ...
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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
The Daily Camera (Boulder) published my response its question about the biggest news story of 2009:
Government debt. In June Fortune reported that "chronic deficits are putting the country on a path to fiscal collapse." The United States Government debt exceeds $12 trillion, or almost $40,000 per U.S. citizen. By 2019 ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Is the for-profit insurance industry a “predator” that “prevent[s] us from having a decent health care system”? Letter writer Bruce Robinson says so (Daily Camera, December 1). He’s partially right. The real predators are politicians who inhibit needed health policy reform. But insurers are guilty for concealing how they benefit ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Section 211-213 of HB 3962 basically says that insurance companies must offer coverage (guaranteed issue) and charge the same premium (community rating) to everyone regardless of their medical history. The November 8 Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) printed my brief opposition to such political controls:
Should government force you to pay more ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The Daily Camera reports:
Some Boulder residents are crying foul over bundles of checks being offered to some City Council candidates by supporters of a controversial development ... in the weeks before a final vote on the property's area plan.
The Camera printed my comments in the October 25 edition:
Voters often want ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
In response to the proposal to charge non-Boulder County residents a user fee for using trails, the Daily Camera published the following in the October 17 2009 edition:
User fees -- I call them a good start. Government should not force people to fund open space if they do not use ...
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
The Daily Camera reports:
The Boulder City Council on Tuesday night agreed on the details of new house-size regulations in Boulder, and are likely to approve the ordinance at a special meeting Thursday night. This week, they eased some of the earlier suggestions - for instance, they will allow a single-family ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Regarding the September 18 Supreme Court decision on EMILY's List vs. the Federal Election Commission, I wrote in the September 12 Boulder Daily Camera:
Campaign finance laws should be abolished. They violate each individual's right to express political opinions, as recognized by the First Amendment. The argument that such censorship is ...
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