Colorado GOP alternative takes easement funds for roads
A group of Republican lawmakers want to eliminate Colorado’s conservation easement tax credit to funnel roughly $100 million a year into highway improvements. Conservation easements are used to protect private land of historic or environmental importance. House Minority Leader Mike May, R-Parker, and Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, said Thursday their ballot measure to suspend the credit is a sensible way to avoid levying new fees on Colorado drivers and repair the state’s roads.