Colorado legislature: Bill giving governments first crack at some housing...
The Colorado House and Senate convened for the penultimate day of the 2024 session Tuesday as they rushed to wrap up legislation on property taxes, gun regulations, housing, land-use policy,...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers end session with camaraderie, finalizing property tax...
Unlike last year, the end of the Colorado legislative session Wednesday came with no fireworks — no protest walkouts, no intracaucus tensions boiling over into public, no last-minute implosions of...
View ArticleVoters likely to overrule legislative fix to address property tax spike, head...
Colorado voters will likely side with two ballot measures promising greater property tax relief than what a bipartisan legislative compromise rushed through in the session’s final hours is offering,...
View ArticleLetters: Could we one day see stars in Denver again?
Let’s turn out some lights in the city too Re: “Residents are darkening the skies to aid millions of migratory birds,” and “Grand Lake selected for DarkSky Colorado mentorship program,” May 12 news...
View ArticleOpinion: A national debt crisis is coming, politicians need to recognize the...
Our federal debt is a looming crisis and hard choices are coming. America’s future fiscal outlook is disastrous but forgotten on the campaign trail this year. The national debt is setting historic...
View ArticleColorado Gov. Jared Polis calls special session on property taxes — the...
Gov. Jared Polis has called the state legislature into a special session aimed at building on recent property tax cuts and heading off a pair of ballot measures that opponents warn would be disastrous...
View ArticleProperty tax deal clears key debate in Colorado House as progressives...
The property tax reform bill at the center of state officials’ deal with conservative activists to pull back a pair of ballot initiatives advanced on schedule Tuesday, clearing a key hearing before the...
View ArticleColorado Gov. Jared Polis’ chief of staff to leave for job at UCHealth
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ chief of staff will leave the administration next week to take a job overseeing government relations for UCHealth. Then-Speaker Alec Garnett of the Colorado House of...
View ArticleLetters: Those $34 million tax credits for Sundance raid your TABOR refunds
Tax credits for Sundance raid TABOR refunds Re: “Colorado gets blinded by showbusiness,” Feb. 2 editorial The $34 million Colorado taxpayer bribe to entice the Sundance Film Festival to relocate to...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers may table attempted TABOR reckoning as labor union,...
Just over a week remains in the Colorado legislature’s 2025 session — and a number of the Democratic majority’s marquee proposals remain in limbo. Big tax and labor bills are still unresolved as the...
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