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Fields: Education spending is up, but teacher pay still not a priority
It’s May in Colorado, which means two things: our state legislature just wrapped up its annual lawmaking session, and teachers will soon get a well-deserved break from the classroom. What’s the...
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Ending tax refunds, sports betting on ballot as Propositions CC and DD
DENVER– According to the Secretary of State, two measures referred to voters in the 2019 Colorado legislative session–one aimed squarely at taxpayer refunds and another to implement sports betting–...
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Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn lambastes the Green New Deal
Washington DC — Posting on Twitter in response to a February Fox News report, Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn on Tuesday wrote, “The $93 trillion Green New Deal pushed by House Democrats would...
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Douglas County School Board complains about $13 million county gift for...
Castle Rock — The Douglas County Schools Board of Education (BOE) wasted no time complaining about a $13.3 million gift to improve school safety and security from the Douglas County Board of County...
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Colorado Springs City Council looking to approve another tax exemption for...
At the City Council’s March 28 work session Carl Schuler, the city’s Comprehensive Planning Manager presented a request by the Interquest North Business Improvement District (INBID) for an ordinance to...
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Battle lines drawn around Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights as formal opposition to...
DENVER–Battle lines are being drawn around Proposition CC, a measure appearing on this November’s state-wide ballot asking Coloradans to permanently give up tax refunds under the Taxpayer’s Bill of...
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Colorado Springs delays decision on excluding Scheel’s All Sports store from...
COLORADO SPRINGS–Confusion at a Colorado Springs City Council meeting Tuesday to consider a request that the new Scheel’s All Sports store be excluded from the Interquest North Business Improvement...
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Sharf: RTD data show declining ridership, rising costs for transit
Another year, some more ridership numbers, and more evidence that the metro Denver area’s public transportation continues to deliver less value for more money. The 8-county* Regional Transportation...
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Caldara: Colorado cities playing Monopoly with taxpayers’ money
In economics they call it a “natural monopoly.” It’s when the startup cost of a business is so great it makes no sense to try to compete with the guy who is already in that business. Your city’s sewer...
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Petition to exclude Scheel’s All Sports from Colorado Springs business...
COLORADO SPRINGS–In a surprise move Monday, Interquest North Business Improvement District (INBID) attorney Russel Dykstra withdrew a petition previously submitted by developer Interquest Marketplace...
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Shelton: Tax rebates to corporations unfair, unhealthy, and unnecessary
Broomfield recently passed a tax incentive deal with Crocs, the formerly Niwot-based shoe manufacturer, which granted them a 50% rebate on Business Personal Property Tax each year for ten years....
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Caldara: Go ahead, put a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights repeal on the ballot
Come on you taxpayer-hating, consent-loathing, voter-fearing pantywaists. Cowboy up and put a full repeal of our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights on the ballot. You know you want to. So just do it. I’m...
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Weld commissioner: Erie urban renewal, TIF plan not good for county
ERIE — The Erie Town Board appears poised to try revitalizing areas of town using Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) plan that depends heavily on the same industry they...
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Polis hits Republican wall over special session, deal on Taxpayer’s Bill of...
DENVER–Efforts earlier this week by Governor Polis to gin up support among Republicans for a special legislative session and a deal to keep excess revenue under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR)...
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Caldara: Tax-hiking Republicans may give Polis his special session TABOR deal
The last legislative session gave something to Colorado Republicans that they could never have given to themselves — some sense of definition. Republicans in this state have had an identity crisis....
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Honegger: Early childhood taxing districts just subsidized daycare by another...
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on House Bill 19-1052 and the implementation of ‘early childhood development’ special taxing districts in Colorado. The first part is available...
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Cooke: It’s time for Jared to ‘be like Bill’
When Democrat Governor Jared Polis took office in January, he rolled out an array of policy proposals which at once excited and worried both his political allies and adversaries. The newly-minted Chief...
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Colorado Springs taxpayer watchdog group taking its process nationwide
Colorado Springs — SpringsTaxpayers.com, which has sought to hold Colorado Springs government accountable for the past two years, is taking its watchdog efforts to other citizen activists, in other...
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Rosen: Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights matters now more than ever
What’s your opinion of Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitution? I suspect the reply of the overwhelming majority of Coloradans to that question would be: “Huh?” But hold that thought. If...
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Fields: Legislators to blame for crumbling roads, not our Taxpayer’s Bill of...
As our state’s roads continue to get worse and worse, Coloradans are wondering when the legislature is finally going to make them a priority. Earlier this month, a portion of U.S. Highway 36 collapsed,...
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