complete colorado
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Disgruntled Colorado counties are blazing their own trail
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Complete Colorado’s Sherrie Peif shed light last week on an effort by some dissenting, left-leaning counties – led (of course!) by Boulder County – to band together and chart a new course in representing their interests before the General Assembly and beyond. Colorado’s 64 counties long have relied on powerhouse lobby Colorado Counties Incorporated to…
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Caldara: Independence Institute works to build ‘Freedom Embassy’
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More than three decades after its founding, the Independence Institute has grown from a free-market think tank into what Jon Caldara, its president of 17 years, calls Colorado’s “Freedom Embassy,” bringing together the state’s disparate right-leaning organizations – including those representing wings of the movement that aren’t natural allies – into a place where he…
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Blake: Bending over backwards for the unaffiliated voter
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The group that would make it even easier for unaffiliated voters to participate in Colorado’s primary elections is circulating two different initiatives – an unusual move. One, currently called No. 98, would open the current primary – held on the last Tuesday in June – to all unaffiliated voters; the other, No. 140, would restore…
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Blake: Revenue took my $1, and I WANT IT BACK!
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If I’d just let my passions run higher, and paid more attention to the deadline, I might have gotten my full tax refund back from the state of Colorado. My problem is, I’m slow to anger, an all too passive citizen who accepts the abuse of the state. I’m too willing to abandon principle for…
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Blake: How long before Bustang is put out to pasture?
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Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. That’s what the Colorado Department of Transportation does with Bustang, the new state-owned intercity bus operation. Bustang began operating July 13 with routes from downtown Denver north to Fort Collins, south to Colorado Springs and west to Glenwood Springs. The profits go to Ace Express Coaches, which operates the…
