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Advocates keep banging their heads on the TABOR wall

December 1, 2019 / Todd Engdahl / History, Politics, State Issues / 3 Comments

Over the last three decades governors, various legislators, education advocates, construction company executives, business leaders and civic activists have organized to ask Colorado voters to increase taxes to raise more money for the state’s cash-strapped schools, crumbling highways and other needs.

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Additional Information for Voters

October 1, 2019 / Denver News, Politics, State Issues / No Comments

Denver Ballot Guide. State Ballot Guide. Why are we voting on these things? What about other ballot measures?

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Denver Ballot – Referred Question 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D

October 1, 2019 / Denver News, Politics / No Comments

Referendums on Establishing City Department of Transportation; Arts and Venues Facilities; Fire Department Ranks and Grades and Elected Official Residency.

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Proposition DD – Legalization and Taxation of Sports Betting

October 1, 2019 / Politics, State Issues / No Comments

Passage of DD would legalize sports gambling in Colorado, impose taxes on the casinos that offer such betting, and devote the tax revenues to water projects.

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Proposition CC – Retention of State Revenue

October 1, 2019 / Todd Engdahl / Politics, State Issues / No Comments

Proposition CC proposes amending the Colorado statutes to allow the state government to keep all of the money it collects every year beginning in the 2019-20 state budget year.

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DPS Board At-Large Candidates—In Their Own Words

October 1, 2019 / Community Issues, Denver News, Politics, Schools/Education / 1 Comment

DPS Board At-Large Candidates Natela Alexandrovna Manuntseva, Tay Anderson and Alexis Menocal Harrigan talk about their policy priorities.

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Reflections on the State of Our Democracy

October 1, 2019 / Carol Roberts / National Issues, Politics, State Issues / No Comments

Mike Johnston, former school principal and state senator, says he spent a lot of time in the past year thinking about what’s broken in our democracy—and what we can fix.

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Should Stapleton Be Renamed? The community debates the question. Plus Ballot Q&A and Letters to the Editor

July 1, 2019 / Community Issues, Elections, Politics, Stapleton / 3 Comments

Views on whether to keep or change the name of the Stapleton community—plus answers to your questions about the ballot and Letters to the Editor

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Northeast City Council Members Talk about Growth

July 1, 2019 / Amanda Sawyer story by Martina Will, PhD; Chris Herndon story by Carol Roberts / Community Issues, People, Politics / No Comments

Incoming City Council Member Amanda Sawyer ran on a platform that opposed Denver’s rapid growth, and is especially interested in slowing development in District 5. Councilman Chris Herndon, just re-elected to his third and final term, says Denver is handling growth “in a responsible manner.”

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Democrats Push Big Agenda Down Bumpy Legislative Road

June 1, 2019 / Todd Engdahl / Politics, State Issues / No Comments

Sometime in the future, when your utility bill changes, your child goes to kindergarten, you vote for president, get arrested, fill a prescription or need some weed delivered, think of the 2019 session of the Colorado General Assembly.

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