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STATE FAMILY LEAVE BILL: Mandating a New Tax to Benefit the Few
Democratic state lawmakers tweaked their state-mandated tax for family leave and the end result isn’t much better. Did we say tax? We meant fee. Democrats are calling the tax a fee in order to bypass TABOR, and a vote by Coloradans they know would fail. Here’s the...
TABOR SHELL GAME: Dems Want to Hamstring TABOR with Zero Guarantees about Where the Money Goes
Proponents of a recent Democratic proposal to hamstring the Taxpayer Bill of Rights or TABOR admitted that they couldn't guarantee that the funds raised from asking Colorado voters to sign over their refunds would go to transportation and education. It's really just a...
KARMA WEATHER MACHINE: If It’s Snowing, It Must Be Global Warming
There exists some sort of karma weather machine that likes to dump snow on Democrats every time they cry global warming or climate change. In particular, the weather fairies liked to mess with former Vice President Al Gore, but also haunt Colorado Democrats. Now it...
KEEPING OUR MONEY: Dems Get Stingy With Property Tax Refund
When you give your child $20 to buy a bottle of water, and they refuse to return your change because they need it to prevent spending cuts to their iTunes collection and have other spending desires in mind for your money — that’s what the state legislature is trying...
CHEROKEE CHARADES: Warren Brings Her Lineage Farce to Colorado
Longtime Democratic presidential wannabe and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming to Colorado next week to hold a pow wow campaign organizing event. No word yet on whether she will try to identify with western voters by flaunting her Indian ancestry, which she claimed...
PETER BOYLES GOES TO SEATTLE: ‘If you hate the city of Denver, vote for 300’
Fresh off his victory lap exposing the disastrous reality of public drug injection sites in Vancouver that led to the demise of a similar opium den proposal for Denver, Peter Boyles headed to Seattle to see how public camping for the homeless was working out for them....
BOMB CYCLONE: Will Garcia Keep the State Capitol Open During a Blizzard Again?
Last month, Colorado experienced a rare winter phenomenon, the bomb cyclone, which left highways littered with abandoned cars and destruction in its wake. But it didn't stop Democratic leadership from plowing ahead at the state Capitol. After all, they had...
FLACK FORWARD: Whatever Happened to Polis’ Spokeswoman?
It certainly took long enough, but Gov. Polis has finally rid himself of a troublesome press flack, whose strong-arm tactics upstaged her own boss on the campaign trail. PeakNation will remember Mara Sheldon from Bernie Sander’s rally that Polis attended, when she...
HYPOCRITES FOR MAYOR: Candidates Shamed on Camping Ban
Ballots go in the mail next week for the May 7 Denver mayor and council elections plus the contentious Initiative 300 giving privacy rights to the homeless and repealing the camping ban so they can take up residence on sidewalks and parks. The camping ban came up...
LEMONADE DEREGULATION: IS Governing Just Too Hard for Polis?
We’d be remiss if we ignored Gov. Polis’s recent grandstanding to appear more business friendly, especially since he’s charging full steam ahead to dismantle our energy economy through the oil and gas bill. Polis signed a deregulation bill into law permitting children...