Draft bill hammers Colorado liquor industry with new fees; includes end run...
DENVER — Hoisting a beer may get a lot more expensive in Colorado if State Senator Kevin Priola — a former Republican who last year switched party affiliation to join the Democrat majority — has his...
View ArticleBipartisan bill aims to further restrict inclusion of agricultural land in...
DENVER — A bipartisan bill introduced Monday in the Colorado State Senate would close a loophole stemming from a 2010 law that was designed to limit the use of agricultural land in urban renewal...
View ArticleBill restricting farmland in urban renewal projects clears committee, heads...
DENVER — A bipartisan bill that would further limit inclusion of agricultural land in urban renewal authority (URA) projects passed out of a Senate committee Wednesday on a 6-1 vote. Senate Bill 23-273...
View ArticleBishop: Legislature paying off special interests with taxpayer refund dollars
With the public distracted by gun control, abortion, and other hot-button issues, the Democrat-controlled Colorado legislature is quietly advancing nearly two dozen bills to redistribute your taxpayer...
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Caldara: The great Colorado property tax scam explained
If you’ve opened your property tax assessment you’ve already had your coronary. Your property value has gone up between 30% and 70%. That means because the legislature, under Democrat Gov. Bill Ritter,...
View ArticleRushed Polis property tax bill contains glaring error; creates conflict with...
DENVER —Gov. Jared Polis’ rushed property tax plan, that took just seven days to go from introduction in the Colorado Senate to final passage on the House floor contains more questions than answers,...
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Bustamante: Proposition HH is deceptive, devious, and unconstitutional
Politicians are like Scooby-Doo villains. Outwardly friendly but secretly cold and devious. But instead of robbing people with hair-brained schemes, politicians manipulate ballot questions to swindle...
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Caldara: Colorado Proposition HH loaded with legislature’s lies
(You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.) There are two axioms that perfectly fit the property tax rip-off going on right now in Colorado. The first, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool...
View ArticleEffort underway for food tax repeal, voter approval for urban renewal on...
LOVELAND — A group of Loveland residents who for months have tried to stop an urban renewal authority (URA) project from breaking ground on the southeast side of town are slightly more than 3,100...
View ArticleArapahoe County Commissioners appear primed to ask voters to give up tax refunds
ARAPAHOE COUNTY — While property owners across the state are facing a looming jump in property taxes as high as 40 percent or more, Arapahoe County residents are likely to see a ballot initiative that...
View ArticleMurrey: The case against Colorado’s Proposition HH
A recent poll of registered voters shows majority support for Proposition HH, the property tax proposal that will appear on the ballot in Colorado this November. The same poll reveals that support...
View ArticleMenten: How to weigh in on local TABOR measures for the 2023 ballot
One great, though lesser-known benefit provided in the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is the local ballot issue notice. This guide is sent by mail at least 30-days before the election to...
View ArticleLongtime TABOR activist on a recruiting mission to weigh in on local ballot...
DENVER — While all eyes are on the statewide ballot measure Proposition HH and what it means for both property taxes and the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) should it pass in November, communities...
View ArticleSome Colorado property owners to see tax relief after challenging sky high...
DENVER — After a year of eye-popping increases in assessed property values, counties across Colorado are reporting an increased number of challenges to those assessments, and an average of 20-25...
View ArticleMenten: Local governments can lower property taxes on their own
Whether the hideous hoax Proposition HH passes or fails at Colorado’s November ballot, local governments including towns, cities, special districts, and schools must lower their 2023 mill levy this...
View ArticleAmbitious Fort Collins ballot asks voters to hike both sales and property taxes
FORT COLLINS — While Coloradans brace for a rapid rise in property taxes thanks to a dramatic increase in property tax valuations, it appears city leaders in Fort Collins aren’t concerned, as they plan...
View ArticleCity of Golden ballot asks voters to raise property taxes even as valuations...
GOLDEN — It appears Golden is following a few other communities across Colorado in asking its voters to raise the cost of living through a pair of ballot measures: one to raise property taxes, and a...
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Hillman: How Proposition HH picks Colorado taxpayers’ pockets
We didn’t need an election this November to receive a modest property tax reduction. The legislature can cut taxes anytime; it doesn’t need voter approval. But with Coloradans facing the largest...
View ArticleCounties come out swinging against Proposition HH as opposition and money...
DENVER — Although the money supporting Proposition HH continues to pile up, so too does the number of organizations in opposition, with the association representing Colorado’s county governments the...
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Rosen: Proposition HH a bait-and-switch fraud
Voters are receiving their 2023 Colorado ballots less than a month before Election Day on November 7, and most will be returning them well before that date. So, the sooner they come to understand the...
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