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Cyberattack disables Colorado public defender’s network; groups seek cap on property tax revenue growth; lawmakers eye ban on cellphones while driving | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 13, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Two groups at the opposite ends of major tax policies in past years have banded together to push for a ballot measure to reduce residential and business property tax rates down to roughly 2022 levels and cap future revenue growth to no more…
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State Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to oil, gas taxation in Montezuma County
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned an appellate court decision that would have enhanced the ability of individual oil and gas owners to challenge their property tax bills, and would have also increased the administrative workload for counties in extraction-rich areas of the state. The justices clarified that the legislature intended to create a “representative”…
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Colorado Senate Republican put Barbara Kirkmeyer on Joint Budget Committee
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Colorado Senate Republicans on Friday unanimously chose Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer to be the caucus’s representative on the Joint Budget Committee. Kirkmeyer, a Brighton Republican who is halfway through her first term, replaces Sen. Bob Rankin. The Carbondale Republican was the committee’s longest-serving member, having been on JBC since 2014. He announced Dec. 1 he would…
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Candidates line up to replace Rankin, both on JBC and in SD5
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Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, who announced he would resign his western slope Senate district seat on Jan. 10, is leaving the Joint Budget Committee as of Monday, prompting the Senate GOP caucus to scramble to find a replacement to join the influential panel. The committee is already well into its work on the 2023-24 budget…
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Oil, gas tax law under consideration by Colorado Supreme Court
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The Colorado Supreme Court stepped in this week to clarify whether the owners of a Montezuma County oil and gas formation have the opportunity to challenge a retroactive $2 million increase to their collective property tax bill. The underlying sequence of events already made its way to the justices once in 2017, when the court…
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WATCH: Democrats slam Kirkmeyer over GOP candidate’s support for national abortion ban in new TV ad
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National Democrats took to the air Tuesday in Colorado with a TV ad linking Republican congressional candidate Barb Kirkmeyer to a potential national ban on abortion. The 30-second spot, released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s independent expenditure arm, includes archival footage of the GOP nominee in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District saying she “[doesn’t] agree…
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Bill addressing crime prevention through safer streets clears first committee
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One of Democrats’ signature public safety bills for the 2022 session won a 3-2 party-line approval in committee Thursday, but only after a tough grilling from one of the panel’s Republican members. Dubbed “Crime Prevention Through Safer Streets,” Senate Bill 1, which is also a key part of Gov. Jared Polis’ public safety package, allocates $10.3…
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‘A mistake was made’: Calls grow louder to reverse 2019 law that lowered penalty for fentanyl possession
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The deaths of five Commerce City residents, reportedly due to overdoses tied to fentanyl, prompted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle at the state Capitol to call for changes in state law Tuesday, with some calling the law that eased penalties for drug possession a “mistake.” “Clearly a mistake was made” to lower…
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Latino Victory Fund backs Democrat Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s new congressional district
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A national group that works to increase the number of Latino members of Congress on Thursday endorsed state Rep. Yadira Caraveo, a Thornton pediatrician, in the Democratic primary in Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District. Nathalia Reyes, head of the Latino Victory Fund, said Caraveo has demonstrated with her medical practice and in the General Assembly…
