For years, the Colorado Department of Transportation has struggled to find funding for expansion and improvement projects along the high-growth stretch of Interstate 25 between the northern Denver suburbs and Fort Collins. Now a private company is proposing to take over the burden of financing some of those improvements in exchange for future toll revenues.
Roadis USA Holding LLC, a Denver-based subsidiary of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board of Canada with operations in North America, Brazil, India, Mexico, Spain and Portugal, submitted an unsolicited proposal to CDOT and its High Performance Transportation Enterprise division, which oversees Colorado toll roads and public-private transportation partnerships. The move came after CDOT last year lifted a moratorium on the receipt of such proposals.
February 01 2021
Candace Avalos: We do not feel safe on our streets and in our homes when hate goes unchecked. I am running for County commissioner to stand up for you the people, your families and your businesses, and to work for a brighter future for all of us.
These are some of the first few words you can read on Mark Shull s campaign page for Clackamas County. But after it was uncovered recently that the newly elected commissioner has a documented history of disparaging Black and brown communities, some of us are wondering what he really meant when he said he d work for all of us.
Candace Avalos column: Bigotry deserves to be canceled
Updated Jan 31, 2021;
Posted Jan 31, 2021
The Clackamas County Commission voted to censure newly-elected commissioner Mark Shull, with Shull also voting yes. Shull, center, has said he will not resign, however.
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Candace Avalos
Avalos is a Portland State University educator and co-founder of the Black Millennial Movement. She chairs Portland’s Citizen Review Committee and serves as a member of the city’s Charter Review Commission. She lives in Portland.
“I am running for County commissioner to stand up for you the people, your families and your businesses, and to work for a brighter future for all of us.”
After a summer of racial justice protests, the power of police unions and the contracts they reach with their respective cities have become a point of conversation.
Black Lives Matter activists in Portland reflect on contrast between Capitol and local police response
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
Over 100 people gathered at Portland s South Park Blocks around 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, and marched throughout the downtown area. Mark Graves/Staff
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tepid response by Capitol police stood
in stark contrast to the force used on left-wing protesters
in Portland.
have deployed tear gas, shot rubber bullets and collectively
arrested more than 1,000 people who have protested around the city since the May 25 police killing of George Floyd. For much of July, federal forces tear gassed Portlanders gathered every night to protest police brutality outside a mostly empty downtown federal courthouse.