jesse mallory
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Counting down the Colorado politicos to watch in 2018
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10. House Speaker Crisanta Duran, D-DenverThe state’s first Latina speaker has a galaxy of political opportunities ahead of her, locally or nationally. She is term-limited in the House after this session. She hasn’t decided yet what she’ll do next,. Meanwhile, she must earn her reputation as a leader this session with a House caucus divided…
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The dinosaurs of the Douglas County School Board
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Innovation in education is happening across the United States, but unfortunately there are those who want to stand in the way of progress and cling to the past here in Colorado. And no one represents the past these days better than the Douglas County School Board, which recently voted to end a scholarship program that would have…
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Americans for Prosperity Colorado to try one last time to save voucher program in DougCo
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Is there any way to save the Douglas County voucher program from its all-but-certain demise on Monday? Americans for Prosperity Colorado (AFP), which spent “six figures” during the election season trying to persuade voters to support the then-board majority’s reform efforts, announced Friday it would try. David Ray, president of the Douglas County board of…
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Colorado’s public pension system is a disaster in the making
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Colorado’s public pension system, the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) is in serious trouble, and if it continues on this same track, just about everyone in the state will feel the pain. Of course, it’s not too late. Colorado could get this right. But only if it learns from the past and embraces a new way of giving public employees more control…
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AFP bows to its anti-tax allies, miffed lawmakers on “Champions of Economic Freedom” scorecard
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Sometimes complaining about your grades does pay off. The Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), hit earlier this week with criticism from anti-tax allies like Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Freedom, has released a new “Champions of Economic Freedom” that is dramatically different than the version that came out a week ago. In that…
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Far more lawmakers get F’s than A’s on AFP-Colorado’s right-leaning report card
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Remember that high school teacher or college prof who was known as “an easy A”? The one you didn’t have to worry about too much around finals? No such luck for the 100 members of Colorado’s General Assembly – at least, not when it comes to the report card just issued on the lawmakers…
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U.S. Rep. Ken Buck tells AFP tax-reformers the effort should be bipartisan in Washington
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With failed efforts by Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act now in the rearview mirror, at least in the eyes of the public, Congress has now turned to the next big ticket item in President Donald Trump’s agenda: tax reform. But at least one Colorado congressman wants Washington to see tax reform…
