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Thursday, July 21, 2005
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Scotch-Irish
Reason Online: "Leaving aside their histories of Jim Crow, Sunday blue laws, and restrictions on alcohol, the regions where Webb says Scots-Irish culture remains strongest are arguably freer and more individualistic than other parts of the country in several respects. For instance, the parts of America Webb identifies as having the largest Scots-Irish populations [~]New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, and Indiana - tended to be ranked highly in the U.S. Economic Freedom Index put together last year by the Pacific Research Institute and Forbes magazine."
9:34:48 PM 
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Referendums C and D
From today's Denver Post: "Colorado transportation officials said Wednesday they may have to cut $75 million from the state's highway construction and maintenance budget in each of the next four years if voters fail to approve Referendums C and D on the November ballot...Referendum D sets up a 'critical needs financing corporation' that would allow the Colorado Department of Transportation to sell $1.2 billion in bonds for building 55 high-priority road projects around the state over the next four years.The state would pay back bondholders using retained revenues allowed by Referendum C. Without the infusion of new highway money from the ballot measures, CDOT is likely to have about $300 million less in spending for roads through 2010 than was anticipated in earlier highway-funding plans, officials said Wednesday.The shortfall would result because TABOR restrictions have reduced other sources of money for roads, they said."
The Denver Visitor's bureau and City Council have decided to drop a new tax proposed for rental cars, according to the Rocky Mountain News [July 21, 2005, "Bureau backs off rental car tax hike"]. From the article, "By the numbers: $4 million - How much an increase in the city's lodging tax and an uptick in hotel business could generate to promote Denver as a tourist and convention destination, said Richard Scharf, president of the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau; $5.6 million - How much it had hoped to raise with the new lodging tax rate and a 1 percentage-point increase in the tax rate on rental cars. The bureau reconsidered seeking the car rental tax after rental agencies protested."
Category: Denver November 2005 Election
6:17:05 AM
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New Whitewater Park for Silverthorne?
 Silverthorne is hoping to build a whitewater park just below Dillon Reservoir, according to the Denver Post [July 21, 2005, "Silverthorne floats kayak park, troubles Denver Water"]. From the article, "A proposal to build a kayak park just below the Dillon Reservoir was met Wednesday with concern over the prospect that it could affect Denver's future water supply. In seeking a new water right, Silverthorne's proposal would ensure minimum stream flows through the Blue River on summer days and peak flows on holiday weekends, but it would kick in only when there is enough water to make boating worthwhile. Using water rights for whitewater parks has become an increasingly contentious issue in the state, Silverthorne water attorney David Robbins told the Colorado Water Conservation Board, meeting in Frisco."
Category: Colorado Water
6:10:04 AM
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