Tag: Jon Caldara

First, the bad news. Whatever you’ve heard, John Hickenlooper’s bold move to loosen the stranglehold that TABOR and Gallagher have on Colorado’s funding will...

Two recent events that shifted the ground under Colorado’s sprawling candidate field for governor have lent scrutiny to the rules governing how money is...

Colorado Independent journalist Corey Hutchins sat down with reporter Ernest Luning of ColoradoPolitics.com and host Jon Caldara, president of the Libertarian-leaning Independence Institute, to talk about voting issues in Colorado on...

Colorado voters will get a bit of a respite this year, now that there isn’t anyone or any group planning to run a ballot...

UPDATE: Since this story was posted, 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, who is running for governor as a Republican, said after thinking about...

What could we at The Colorado Independent possibly do to capture both the absolute absurdity and the critical importance of tonight's opening-round debate between Donald Trump...

Colorado’s constitution has become a “dumping ground” for special interests, and the time has come to rein in the process for amending the state’s...

Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute is best known for being a free-market, gun loving, anti-union, libertarian pundit, and mover and shaker in Colorado...

It's probably not altogether fair to put the stunning defeat of so-called education "reformers" around the state on Julie Williams, but let's do it...

Groups opposed to the recall of three conservative Jefferson County Board of Education members are doing their best to keep under wraps how much...