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#Retweets: The week’s best Twitter takes on Colorado politics
Guys, this time the @JonCaldara – Klingenschmitt wing is serious. #COpolitics #COleg pic.twitter.com/CkBvIGuWV1
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A diehard defender of tax limitation nails state lawmakers to a ‘Wall of Shame’
Colorado’s political right has made its heartburn abundantly clear by now over Senate Bill 267, the eleventh-hour, catch-all, bipartisan legislation that wound up funding a little of this and a little more of that – and unexpectedly became the sleeper of the 2017 legislature. The bill’s title purported to address the “sustainability of rural Colorado” but, as…
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Independence calls it quits on ‘Fix Our Damn Roads’ — but promises it will be back
The highway-funding ballot proposal by the Independence Institute that kind of was – though many were skeptical – won’t be, after all. You may recall the libertarian-leaning Denver think tank had announced in March it had filed a ballot proposal with the state that would require the General Assembly to issue $2.5 billion in bonds to fund a raft of highway…
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Legislature’s Lundberg, i2i’s Caldara to headline gathering of tax-CUT-ters
The fiscally conservative Colorado Union of Taxpayers – whose “CUT ratings” of lawmakers’ voting records over the years could make or break the conservative credentials claimed by many GOP officeholders – doesn’t have quite the profile it did in the days of its late co-founder and all-around activist behind the scenes, Vern Bickel. Arguably, it doesn’t have…
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YESTERYEAR: Ritter, Caldara face off over School Finance Act
Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … A new welfare law was finally agreed upon and the Legislature narrowly averted a special session. “That’s the art of compromise,” Gov. Roy Romer said. He added that he would sign the latest version of the state’s welfare reform law that had successfully met the…
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On the 2017 legislative session, transportation lobbyist sees hope in the wreckage
Sandra Hagen Solin, spokesperson for the Fix Colorado Roads economic-development coalition, worked the legislative trenches all year to bring Capitol leaders to a place where they could make a deal to pass a major transportation funding proposal. After months of back and forth, leadership this session brought out House Bill 1242, which failed spectacularly. Critics…
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Q&A w/Jeff Hunt: Centennial Institute is a Christian voice in the public square
The Denver metro area — center of government, geographical hub and crossroads of commerce — has its share of think tanks from left to right. They are where ideas are born, nurtured and then, with some luck and a lot of work, handed off to lawmakers to turn into policy. Relatively new to that scene is Colorado Christian University’s…