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The Denver Post will try to retain as many as 80 percent of Rocky Mountain News readers, an ambitious drive that begins with its first Saturday edition in eight years, 24 hours from now.
Union drivers, mechanics and service workers Tuesday won the right to bring in an arbitrator to settle a contract with RTD, removing the possibility of a second transit strike in three years.
House lawmakers voted Tuesday to give RTD power to go directly to voters if the transit agency decides to ask for more sales taxes to fund the beleaguered FasTracks program.
Union drivers, mechanics and service workers on Tuesday won the right to bring in an arbitrator to settle a new contract with RTD, removing the possibility of a second transit strike in three years.
A task force of metro Denver mayors agreed Thursday that RTD should ask the legislature to give it a limited option to seek a second FasTracks sales tax hike this year.
Thursday's hearing on a possible RTD drivers and mechanics strike might seem straight out of Alice in Wonderland unless you understand the politics of labor relations in Colorado.
Overseeing Colorado's share
Highway contractors, sharpen your pencils. A truckload of construction money is about to hit the streets.
Gov. Bill Ritter expects to announce later this week how Colorado will set up the state effort to handle an influx of more than $2 billion of federal money that will be flowing in soon under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
RTD's drivers and mechanics union will ask the state Thursday to deny it the right to strike, opening the door to binding arbitration, which the transit agency opposes.
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