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Colorado Fiscal Institute names Kathy White as new executive director
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The Colorado Fiscal Institute announced Monday that its board has selected Kathy White, its deputy director since 2012, to become the next executive director. White will replace Carol Hedges, who founded the left-of-center institute and was its only executive director. Hedges retired in December. “I’m excited to lead CFI into its next phase at this…
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Denver League of Women Voters: Let’s talk TABOR
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They’re calling the event “Another look at TABOR” – as in 1992’s voter-enacted Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights – because of course it won’t be the first time skeptics of the epic tax-limiting provision in the Colorado Constitution have eyed it in hopes of changing it. And while the March 19 forum, announced in a news…
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Income tax rate reduction bill clears Senate Finance Committee
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Senate Republicans Tuesday championed a bill on tax cuts that would spend down some of the estimated $1 billion revenue surplus expected by state economists in 2018-19. Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City and his number two, Senate President Pro tem Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling, are the sponsors of Senate Bill 61, which would…
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Colorado loves the EITC working-class tax credit, and now, after Trump whooping, so does Wisconsin’s Scott Walker
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Amid the political tumult of the first weeks of the Trump presidency, there are signs that the political status quo in the country really might be shifting, on the right and the left. What’s going on in Wisconsin? Republican Gov. Scott Walker has made a name for himself for running the state according to anti-tax…
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Backers kill ballot measure to lift TABOR revenue caps
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Supporters of a state ballot measure to set a 10-year time-out on TABOR revenue restrictions called it quits Tuesday, blaming what could be a crowded fall ballot, the high cost of getting across a complicated argument to voters and an “uncertain political climate.” “In November, Colorado voters are going to be asked to decide on up…
