“No Colorado utility has voluntarily filed for approval of an immediate rate reduction,” Doug Dean, PUC Director on Colorado’s utilities response to savings from federal tax reform.
Street hails are a relatively new development in Colorado. They’re still virtually unknown in the suburbs, and Denver City Council only legalized them in 2007, a year in advance of the Democratic National Convention here.
At least TNC businesses have been legally established in Colorado. The two existing companies may be paying too much for the regulation that comes with the right, but perhaps they won’t mind if it keeps down their future competition.
Ali Vazir, a supporter of UberX, accused the cab companies of charging their drivers “exuberant” lease rates. It was a happy instance where the wrong word was better than the right one.
The Colorado legislature is working on an overhaul of the increasingly competitive telecommunications industry. But that doesn’t mean the historic subsidies for monopoly rural service are going away; they are
