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  • Appeals court clarifies water conservancy districts must follow TABOR

    Appeals court clarifies water conservancy districts must follow TABOR

    Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that water conservancy districts must seek voter approval pursuant to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, before increasing their tax rates. Previously, a Logan County judge believed the law creating water conservancy districts, which existed prior to voters’ enactment of TABOR in 1992, mandated district boards to set tax…


  • Appeals court clarifies water conservancy districts must follow TABOR

    Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that water conservancy districts must seek voter approval pursuant to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, before increasing their tax rates. Previously, a Logan County judge believed the law creating water conservancy districts, which existed prior to voters’ enactment of TABOR in 1992, mandated district boards to set tax…


  • Appeals court clarifies water conservancy districts must follow TABOR

    Colorado’s second-highest court clarified last week that water conservancy districts must seek voter approval pursuant to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, before increasing their tax rates. Previously, a Logan County judge believed the law creating water conservancy districts, which existed prior to voters’ enactment of TABOR in 1992, mandated district boards to set tax…


  • Denver City Council nixes landmark status for Cherry Creek home slated for demolition

    Denver City Council nixes landmark status for Cherry Creek home slated for demolition

    Denver has 359 structures or districts designated “historical” or granted “landmark” status by the city. These include iconic titans of the city like the Wells Fargo Center and Union Station downtown, but also includes the Speer Boulevard historic district and other smaller parcels of land.  United Airlines purchases new Boeing ‘widebody’ planes After a public…


  • 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…


  • Stapleton 5-party funding to allow new school, fire station, homes

    A five-party funding arrangement is to be considered by Denver City Council that would eventually allow some 2,800 new homes to be built on the former Stapleton International Airport property, which was decommissioned in the mid-1990s. The Stapleton “Five Parties” (City and County of Denver, Denver Urban Renewal Authority, Denver Public Schools, Forest City and…


  • RTA property tax extension bill passes House committee

    Voters in rural areas of Colorado would continue to be able to approve a property tax of up to five mills to fund mass transit systems in their local communities through 2029, under a bill approved by the House Transportation and Energy Committee Wednesday, Jan.25. House Bill 17-1018 extends the statutory authority of regional transportation…


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