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Name: Corey
Country: United States
State: Colorado
Metro: Denver
Birthday: 1/9/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: Exploring and experiencing Denver 
Occupation: Marketing
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/22/2003
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27ยข a Day for a Better Colorado
Sorry that my first entry in forever is political but hey, right now it's my life.
For all those of you in Colorado, here's my blatant plea for you to go out on November 1 and Vote Yes on C&D. Here's why...
Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) does not allow the state budget to keep pace with demands for critical services. In years when state taxes collected exceed the TABOR limit, the state must rebate the amount over the limit, even while slashing budgets for services that are critical to Colorado citizens. Voting Yes on C&D doesn't change the 1992 TABOR ammendment to the Colorado consititution, so TABOR will remain unchanged as the state will still be required to vote on every tax increase. The long-term restriction of TABOR on the growth of the state budget will remain unchanged. Referendum C simply asks the tax payers to allow the state to keep the taxed already collected (for five years only) to improve crumbling roads, bridges, school and college buildings and underfunded health care programs. Referendum D asks permission to issue bonds to pay for a specific list of highway improvement projects.
Voting Yes on Referenda C&D will allow Colorado to invest in these much needed improvements:
Health Care
Yes on C&D will provide funds for
- Health care programs for the elderly, low income and disadvantaged Coloradoans
- Reduced health insurance costs for individuals and small businesses
Community Colleges and State Colleges
Yes on C&D will provide funds for
- Need-based and merit-based scholarships for state college and community colleges (Referendum C)
- Repair of aging state college buildings (Referendum D)
Roads and Bridges
Yes on C&D will provide funds for
- 57 Highway improvement projects (Referendum D)
- $504 million for Denver Metro road improvements
- $696 million for bridge and highway improvements (outside Denver metro area)
K-12 Schools
Yes on C&D will provide funds for
- Text books, libraries and early learning programs (Referendum C)
- School building repairs in poorer school districts (Referendum D)
Cost to an average Colorado tax payer:
- The average TABOR rebate can only be estimated because it is based on economic projections.
- Estimated average TABOR rebate: 27 cents a day or about $98 per year for 5 years.
- The TABOR rebates are completly separate from income tax refunds. Income tax refunds are not changed by Referenda C&D.
- Colorado and Federal Tax Refunds will be distributed as usual.
For more information about Referenda C&D, go to:
www.voteyesonc-d.com
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| "You ask me how things work. I think of endless cycles, the hum and spin of everything. So I tell you this: Hold the pale green stalk up high. And then run hard so the wind will catch the wings of dandelion seeds. Let them fall like sparks, like stars, back to the earth. I can tell you are not satisfied. But really. That's all there is to it: The persistence of yellow." -MD- | | |
| I am moving up in the world! As of November 22, I'm going to be the Marketing Associate for Denver Options! I'm sooo excited!! | | |
| "Choose your work carefully. No matter how much you believe that your work is nothing more than what you do to make money, your work makes you who you are, because it is where you put your time. We are what we do, and the more we do it, the more we become it. By giving a job your time, you are giving it your consciousness. Eventually it will fill your life with the reality that it presents." - Kent Nerburn
So they posted the job today for the official new "Marketing Associate" position -- it REQUIRES a high school diploma, a college degree is PREFERRED. (For a marketing associate position??) People at work have basically been telling me that I will get this job, which is nice and all, but I feel like it may have gotten my hopes up prematurely. Suffice it to say there is also this person at work who is my age, who graduated from college at the same time, and has an actual Marketing degree. I don't know how this is going to compare to my Fine Arts degree, but it definitely has made me rethink the "shoe-in" ability of me getting this job. Oy. The next two weeks I will either be a) stressed to the max worrying about this or b) get over it in the next few days and forget about it until I can actually do something about it. Who am I kidding! I'm going to be a wreck until then I know. I guess the most frustrating part is that I have held out this long as the receptionist because I knew something different was going to come along... and now that it has, I realize that if I don't get this opportunity, I'm not sure if I'm willing to play the part of the receptionist that much longer. I know my brain needs more activity than that.
Other than that, things are going nicely these days in Colorado... Luke and I are doing well. He makes me so very happy (*sigh*). I don't know if I've ever met someone so attentive and genuinely sweet and thoughtful. It just kills me.
Last week Jo drug me to this stock-picker-guy speaker thing, and I found my self uninterested after about 15 minutes. The only thing that kept me even sitting there was a) the pretty Mac interface that was on the projection screen b) the free mints I got before going in c) the Starbucks coffee so generously provided by the DTC Hyatt and d) the promise of desert upon leaving the speaker. Jo and I split four different kinds of sweets and each indulged in chocolate dipped (and very large!) strawberries. So I have to give him credit for good food and coffee. Which is really what it's always about anyways...
I get to see Matt Nathanson TWICE next month. I'm such a lucky girl!
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| And then God said, "We will create a Program Assistant position in the Marketing department.".... Keeping my fingers crossed he has me in mind....
Moab, Utah for the weekend!
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