Proposition 101

Many Coloradans get their water from municipal enterprises, including customers of Aurora Water, Denver Water, Fort Collins Utilities and Pueblo Water Works.

These are local enterprises funded by the fees they charge for providing water and other services to their customers. The Bad Three – Amendment 60, Amendment 61 and Proposition 101 – will drive up water rates for these and other customers throughout Colorado.

Many Coloradans get their water from municipal enterprises, including customers of Aurora Water, Denver Water, Fort Collins Utilities and Pueblo Water Works.

These are local enterprises funded by the fees they charge for providing water and other services to their customers. The Bad Three – Amendment 60, Amendment 61 and Proposition 101 – will drive up water rates for these and other customers throughout Colorado.

A modern transportation system with well-maintained bridges for our roads and highways is important to our quality of life and economy. Sounds so basic, right?

But Colorado has 128 structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges, and if Amendment 61 and Proposition 101 pass, it will be nearly impossible to repair or replace them any time soon. Here's why.

Colorado has 128 structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges. If Proposition 101 and Amendment 61 pass, it will be nearly impossible to repair or replace them any time soon.

Click on link below for bridges projects in the southwestern Colorado – Gunnison, La Plata, Ouray, San Juan and San Miguel counties.

Colorado has 128 structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges. If Proposition 101 and Amendment 61 pass, it will be nearly impossible to repair or replace them any time soon.

Click on link below for bridges projects in the South Park-Pike's Peak Region – El Paso, Fremont, Park and Teller counties.

Colorado has 128 structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges. If Proposition 101 and Amendment 61 pass, it will be nearly impossible to repair or replace them any time soon.

Click on link below for bridges projects in the northern Colorado – Larimer, Logan and Weld counties

Colorado has 128 structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges. If Proposition 101 and Amendment 61 pass, it will be nearly impossible to repair or replace them any time soon.

Click on link below for bridges projects in the metro area – Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and Jefferson counties.

By Rachel Cernansky
Colorado Independent

If Amendment 60 passes in November, students across Colorado will know it. They will soon be in more crowded classrooms and are likely to have fewer after-school and enrichment programs, course offerings and textbooks.

Colorado schools will lose more than $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes; operating at about half or less of their current budgets, school districts will not be able to afford full staffing or maintenance of existing programs.

By David Harrison
Stateline Staff Writer

Glenn Gustafson, chief financial officer for the Colorado Springs school district, says three anti-tax initiatives on Colorado's ballot this year would devastate school districts across the state.

There's plenty of bad medicine when it comes to rural health care and the Bad Three.

Amendment 60 and Proposition 101 would cut operating revenues, and Amendment 61 would make it much harder to invest in the latest technology, let alone bricks-and-mortar expansion.