"How I regret voting FOR FasTracks in 2004--I even helped circulate petitions to get the issue on the ballot. Silly me, being a longtime sales tax watchdog. Did I really want to pay a full 1.0% sales tax for getting RTD table scraps on the northern fringe of the district? And now they're going to ask for another 0.4%? Heaven sakes, before we know it, our total sales tax will be 10% just like liberal infested Chicago!"

"Plans to build a $1.7 billion commuter train system to Denver International Airport are chugging along, albeit slowly. Planners now need to buy 56 properties for track and rail, and all but five house commercial or industrial businesses, according to The Denver Post."

"Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District took the wraps off an RTD-financed survey in which more than 60 percent of respondents said they'd "generally support" a tax increase to complete current FasTracks exansion by 2017. This info spawned prominently placed stories in the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News this morning. But other headlines in the same editions imply that officials would be taking a significant political risk by lobbying for an early vote on such a measure -- among them "Sprint, ING, Others to Slash 74,000 Jobs" and "Jobs Swirling Down Drain.""