Is John Hickenlooper the one to fight Trump or should voters give Julie...
Midterm elections carry a heavy weight this year, as Democrats look to pad their numbers in Congress and fight back against President Donald Trump’s lawlessness. U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper wants...
View ArticleProperty tax hardship doesn’t have to mean a windfall for Colorado...
Property tax hardship on Colorado residents doesn’t have to mean a windfall for government Re: “Local elected officials have the power to provide property tax relief,” March 22 editorial The Post’s...
View ArticleColorado Democrats propose tax reforms steering impact of federal tax cuts to...
Colorado Democrats unveiled a suite of bills Tuesday that aim to divorce the state tax code from recent federal changes — generating extra state revenue that would be used to provide at least some...
View ArticleColorado Democrats float big changes aimed at reforming income taxes and...
A pair of measures that Democrats are aiming to place on the November ballot would significantly alter the foundation of Colorado’s tax code, upending the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Taken alone, either...
View ArticleColorado lawmakers aren’t the only ones who think taxing workers is the way...
While congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump enacted tax relief for overtime workers nationwide as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Colorado Democrats are using it as an...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleColorado 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 ArticleNew property tax relief proposal gives Colorado lawmakers hope for peace in...
Ping-ponging property tax rates could reach long-term stability if a proposal introduced in the Colorado legislature on Monday beats the clock for when the body must finish its work this week. But the...
View ArticleColorado legislature: Property tax deal leaves out key groups; House passes...
Lawmakers in the Colorado House and Senate face a time crunch as the end of the legislative session approaches on Wednesday and are working to pass bills on property tax relief, gun regulations,...
View ArticleColorado legislature: Property tax agreement is elusive; land-use bills...
The Colorado legislature is returning Sunday during the final weekend of work in its 2024 session, set to end Wednesday. Among major pieces of legislation still pending are gun regulations, housing,...
View ArticleColorado legislature: Same-sex marriage amendment to go to voters; Senate...
The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to...
View ArticleColorado legislature: Both approaches on construction defects reform appear...
The Colorado legislature began its mad rush into weekend work on Friday as the end of the 2024 session comes into sight, with plenty of major legislation still unfinished. Lawmakers have until the end...
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