Correction

In a post from August 15th on the great service you receive on the E-470 toll road, called Happy To Pay More For A Better Colorado, I incorrectly assumed that said toll road was not a public operation.

Usually the attendants ask if you want a receipt, which is nice when you're driving on your company's dime. I have to believe that these attendants are not state employees and if that is the case, they--and the E-470--make a powerful argument for further privatization of our highways and byways.

It turns out that the E-470 is in fact operated by a local government consortium:

E-470 is run by the E-470 Public Highway Authority, a consortium of the governments of the jurisdictions the highway passes through (except Denver).

We sincerely regret the error and thank Mitch Berg for
bringing it to our attention after he noticed a mention of it on some local lefty blog.

There really is no excuse for it other than utter and complete laziness. It would have been easy to Google up additional information on the E-470. I even received an e-mail after the post from a regular reader in Colorado which included a link to a site with everything one could ever want to know about the E-470 (and more).

But the real fault lies with the gatekeepers and editors here at Fraters Libertas who should have caught this inaccuracy before it ever saw the light of day. We take turns acting as official editor in chief and this month those duties fell to Atomizer who likely was passed out at the gate.

If there's one thing that my business experience in China has taught me is that those responsible for mistakes must pay an appropriate price. Accordingly, JB will be taking Atomizer on a short "fishing trip" later this week.