Gov. Bill Ritter threw his support today behind a proposed ballot question to change two financial mandates in the Colorado Constitution – the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and the school-funding measure Amendment 23.
Few know the condition of the state’s highways and roads better than the director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Russell George. He commutes to Denver from his Rifle home almost every weekend, more than 400 miles round trip on…
Taxes are bad for business, or so the conventional “wisdom” goes, but a group of small-business owners in Aurora are the most recent entrepreneurs to turn that idea on its head – electing to tax themselves.
Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin takes a look at the recent history of the property tax freeze in Colorado and reminds us that many state Republicans, who now oppose the move, voted for a very similar measure back in…
Senator Ken Salazar won a highly prized committee assignment today when he was named to the Senate Finance Committee.
The committee has oversight on tax policy, Social Security, trade, tarriffs and federal debt.
TABOR could be overridden again in Lakewood, a suburb of Denver. A provision that will be on the November ballot seeks to renew a measure that has allowed the city to spend money above state budget limits since 1999.
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Maine already has a TABOR-like spending-limitation law. Proposed by Governor John Baldacci, it passed the state legislature in January 2005 — just two months after voters rejected a radical tax-capping initiative (the “Palesky Tax Cap”).
Baldacci, a Democrat,…
Last week, the backer of Missouri’s TABOR initiative told a district court judge that initiative signatures should be considered valid even if submitted in a trash bag.
The judge, Richard Callahan, trashed the TABOR initiative instead. Yesterday he
A quick update from the TABOR battle in Montana:
In court actions filed Tuesday, Attorney Jonathan Motl accused that state’s TABOR proponents of “the most extensive, consistent and deliberate assault on Montana’s initiative process witnessed to date.” Montanans…
Montana’s version of TABOR, Constitutional Initiative 97 (or CI-97), hasn’t officially made the ballot yet. Its signatures still await certification by Sec’y of State Brad Johnson. That could come as soon as this Friday.
Or maybe not. The CI-97…
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