Ballot initiative to boost funding for Colorado’s roads could pit infrastructure against healthcare, education

Ballot initiative to boost funding for Colorado’s roads could pit infrastructure against healthcare, education

A proposed ballot initiative that would force the Colorado legislature to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on road funding could come at the expense of healthcare and education, lawmakers are warning.  The initiative has yet to make it onto the ballot, but lawmakers have introduced a bill in the final days of the legislative session that would neutralize the proposal should it pass.  The fight centers around Initiative 175, a ballot pr…