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Legislation would consolidate programs to provide housing assistance

State Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, steered her bill to consolidate state resources past the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee Thursday, with the committee passing it without objection

Severance Tax Committee Grapples with Final Changes

The legislative severance tax committee members may have discovered that talking about problems with the state's severance tax revenue distribution is easier than deciding...

Caution: You Are Entering the Severance Tax Distribution Maze

The severance tax legislative committee has been meeting over the summer to decipher the state's severance tax distribution formulas. Tuesday was another long day...

Billions and Billions Needed to Mitigate Energy Impacts

Communities and counties across the state recently looked into their 20-year crystal ball and tallied proposed costs associated with the growth of oil and...