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Study shows Prop HH won’t stop property tax increases next year
A new study shows that passing Prop HH, which claims to offer property tax relief, won’t stop expected increases. The Denver Gazette: reports on the new analysis from the Common Sense Institute. Denver’s median home price of $681,243 pays $2,968 in property taxes in...
Federal judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit against Griswold over dead voter data
A federal judge didn’t buy Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s excuse that dead voters have privacy rights and ordered her to disclose information in a lawsuit that seeks to determine whether the state’s voter rolls are accurate. Any legitimate prohibitions on...
Colorado senators welcome Maryland resident as California’s new senator
The governor of California had to go all the way to Maryland to find a suitable LGBTQ+ candidate who checked all the proper progressive boxes to serve out the remainder of Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate term. Colorado’s U.S. Senators were quick to welcome Laphonza...
Colorado Democrat lawmakers propose sin taxes on personal vehicles
Sin taxes used to be levied on bad habits that could be detrimental for one's health, like smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol, or Big Gulps. Now the state’s progressive Democrat lawmakers want to add automotive vehicles to the list and charge an additional...
Gazette endorses Coffman for Aurora mayor over socialist Democrat Marcano
He’s not always popular with the press or the political class, but The Gazette says Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman does what he thinks is right, blazes his own trails, and should be reelected to another term in the November election. Citing Coffman’s leadership and...
What in the world is Ken Buck thinking?
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out as speaker Tuesday by the entire Democrat caucus with the aid of seven renegade Republicans led by angry Florida man. No, not Trump. U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz. Colorado’s Ken Buck was among them, which didn't come as a surprise...
Colo Dems snub representative democracy for party activists to decide vacancies
More than a quarter of the state legislature are lawmakers who were appointed by a party vacancy committee rather than the voters in their district whom they are supposed to represent. The Colorado Sun first wrote about the trend in January and the Denver Post picked...
Vote to opt out of 2024 GOP primary fails at state meeting
Colorado’s current GOP leaders declared victory after being defeated for the third time this year trying to keep independents from voting for their candidates, this time it was to opt out of the 2024 primary. Locally elected members of the state central committee who...
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