constitutional amendment
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Gorman: Amendment 72 is constitutionally guaranteed revenue for state bureaucracies
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Amendment 72 supporters claim that raising tobacco taxes will reduce smoking. That’s a smokescreen. What the amendment really does is create a constitutionally mandated stream of revenue for two state health bureaucracies that seek to shake off the shackles of legislative budgetary oversight. Under Amendment 72, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes will…
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Noonan: Fate of fracking initiatives raise question about need for Raise the Bar
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Oil and gas companies are happy in Colorado right now, following Secretary of State Wayne Williams’s declaration that two anti-fracking initiatives, Nos. 75 and 78, didn’t collect enough signatures to meet the 98,000-plus threshold to get on the ballot. The industry, which had already spent over $15 million to defeat the proposed constitutional amendments, was…
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YESTERYEAR: Democrats defend Hillary Clinton as Bill nominated for second term
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Democrats dispelled any preconceptions that their 1996 national convention would mirror “the GOP’s tightly controlled production” that relied on “cheerleading youth to generate enthusiasm and whips to silence dissenters,” The Statesman reported from Chicago, where delegates nominated Bill Clinton and Al Gore for a second…
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Minimum wage hike measure placed on ballot
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The minimum wage in Colorado could go up to $12 an hour in four years, if state voters approve a constitutional amendment placed on the general election ballot Thursday. Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced that the proposed ballot measure qualified for the Nov. 8 ballot. Backers of Initiative 101 submitted close to 200,000…
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Blake: On the initiatives, just say ‘no’
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I love the initiative process in theory. Power to the people! In practice, not so much. At least this year. Like a pianist playing scales, I used to warm up for my biennial ballot concerto by quickly flipping the “no” lever on all the judges up for retention. It not only flexed the fingers, it…
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Oil & gas issues may not make ballot
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Updated: Friday, 08/12/16, 13:39 MDT Two closely watched and controversial state constitutional amendments related to oil and natural gas development in Colorado face the prospect of not making the ballot, after backers submitted just slightly more than the required number of signatures for each measure. The two measures are Initiative 75, which would allow local…
