Today is June 3, 2024, and here’s what you need to know:

Colorado voters face complicated options on property taxes in November

Colorado voters face two broad options that seek to tackle soaring property tax valuations — one enacted by lawmakers to cut both residential and commercial assessment rates and another via proposed initiatives to revert taxing levels back to two years ago and then place a hard cap on revenue growth.

To lawmakers, their proposal, which garnered the support of Democrats and Republicans alike in the recently-concluded legislative session, achieves their overarching goal of providing stability and certainty to property taxes, while inoculating schools and local governments from dramatic changes to their ability to fund spending priorities.

To the proponents of the two initiatives, their solution provides a more meaningful and larger relief to property owners, while offering certainty by tampering down wide oscillations in people’s taxing obligations.

DA won't file charges against Dave Williams, Vickie Tonkins on allegations they withheld delegate lists

District Attorney Mike Allen won’t pursue charges against Republican congressional candidate Dave Williams and El Paso County GOP Chairwoman Vickie Tonkins in response to a criminal complaint that alleged the two withheld data from candidates who were competing with Williams for the party’s nomination.

In March, Joshua Griffin asked Allen, a Republican, to determine whether Williams used his position as Colorado GOP chairman to obtain lists of GOP delegates before they were made available to Griffin and other Republican candidates for the 5th Congressional District seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn.

Griffin also alleged that Tonkins gave Williams, her longtime ally, an unfair — and illegal — advantage by withholding delegate lists from Griffin ahead of the party’s nominating assembly. But the district attorney’s office on Friday said that prosecutors didn’t find enough evidence to support the claims.

Coalition cries foul over Colorado elections bill, urges Governor Jared Polis to veto

A last-minute amendment to an elections bill has voting rights groups seeing red and calling on Gov. Jared Polis to veto the measure.

County clerks, on the other hand, would prefer to see Senate Bill 210 signed. The governor has until June 7 to sign the remaining bills from the 2024 session into law.

SB 210 began as the annual attempt to clean up election language. Notably, it had no outside opposition as it moved through the General Assembly and was approved with just a handful of “no” votes from Republicans in the House and Senate.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills aimed at boosting Colorado affordable housing efforts

Gov. Jared Polis this week signed three bills related to affordable housing into law. These measures gained the sought-after support from local governments that had eluded the administration up until now.

All three measures received bipartisan support, differentiating them from most affordable housing legislation that succeeded this year and failed in 2023.

Senate Bill 174 was signed Thursday.

Q&A with Nancy Pallozzi | Jeffco GOP chair works to rebuild once-dominant county party

Nancy Pallozzi, the Jefferson County Republican chair, has taken on a monumental task — restoring the beleaguered party in one of Colorado’s largest counties, where the GOP once ran the show but in recent decades has been relegated by voters to the sidelines.

Pallozzi, who has run unsuccessful campaigns for the legislature, city council and a seat on the State Board of Education, said she realizes it could take years, but she isn’t daunted.

The interview was lightly edited for length and clarity.