goldwater institute
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Your year-end charitable donation could land you on Denver’s list
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Donors may regret writing that year-end check to their favorite Colorado nonprofit, particularly if there’s a chance that nonprofit will have something to say about proposed laws in the city of Denver. Under a recently enacted Denver ordinance, nonprofits that spend more than $500 communicating with voters about a ballot question must give the city…
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Denver gets sued over its new disclosure requirement for nonprofits
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Denver’s attempt to rein in the “dark money” that drives, and sometimes distorts, a lot of campaign messaging has landed the city in court. A lawsuit filed in Denver District Court Wednesday by a public-interest litigation foundation out of Arizona – the libertarian-leaning, Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute – contends that provisions of the campaign-reform ordinance enacted…
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Colorado campus free speech bill signed into law (with high marks for bipartisan support)
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed a state campus free speech bill passed with wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the Legislature this year. “Once we limit free speech to a zone, we indicate to our students that free speech does not exist anywhere beyond that zone,” state Sen. Tim Neville, a Littleton…



