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Of far greater import than TABOR, the Denver Nuggets just won their first NBA title! They defeated the Miami Heat 4 games to 1in the Nuggets home arena in Denver.it may not seem important for non-sports fans, but it will bring in lots of revenue to the...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Jun 12, 2023 at 06:00 PM PDT
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The Colorado State Open Thread is published to chronicle goings-on in thought and deed within our fair state of Colorado.� I hope to capture some events, some thoughts that you might have missed and ...
by ColoTim
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on Mon May 09, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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You would think with a GOP veto-proof majority in the House and Senate and a GOP Governor (Pat McCrory), getting things done like passing a budget would come easy. You might normally think that ...
by Intheknow
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on Thu Aug 27, 2015 at 08:47 AM PDT
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Per Internet, a petard (French, of course) is a small bomb, perhaps best thought of as a primitive grenade. We use hoist in a manner seemingly inconsistent with a bomb, but whatever: we are all ...
by Leftcandid
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on Sat Aug 08, 2015 at 09:53 AM PDT
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One outcome from the just-completed Supreme Court session is that Colorado's 10th US District federal court has been told to review a decision from 2014 about the Colorado legislature's standing to ...
by ColoTim
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on Tue Jun 30, 2015 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Colorado has an interesting series of laws; one of the most headline grabbing in recent years has run into another one from several years ago and that has produced a nice, if interesting choice for ...
by ColoTim
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on Sat Jun 13, 2015 at 10:26 AM PDT
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I spent Saturday at TBD -- a very lame name for a pretty cool idea. Governor Hickenlooper wanted to bring together one thousand civic leaders from all over the state, educate them on the basics of ...
by njcronk
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on Sun Jun 24, 2012 at 12:40 AM PDT
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Colorado is the only state to require a vote of the people to raise taxes. Voters adopted TABOR in 1992.
The lawsuit in federal court asks a judge to throw out TABOR because it violates ...
by blue aardvark
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on Tue May 24, 2011 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Denver Post
Douglas Bruce, the Colorado Springs anti-tax activist, was indicted today for failing to pay taxes,
by blue aardvark
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on Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 01:01 PM PDT
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by gwojtowy
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on Sun Aug 01, 2010 at 08:10 AM PDT
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Crossposted from The People's View .
Yesterday, Ed Schultz on MSNBC's The Ed Show did a segment on the condition of Colorado Springs, Colorado - ...
by deaniac83
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on Thu Jul 08, 2010 at 07:15 PM PDT
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Thanks to Bink's diary of earlier, many of you already know the sad saga ...
by Gooch
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on Mon Feb 01, 2010 at 12:11 PM PST
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Remember how Grover Norquist and his buddies want to shrink government down so it can fit in a bathtub. Well, E.J. Dionne writes in today's WaPo that two such attempts failed because we ...
by Darrell Lucus
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on Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 03:20 PM PST
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The state took 10 minutes or so to add King County (Seattle and burbs) to its total. Now they have, and we lead 436,801 to 401,700. Most of the rurals are in already; some more semi-suburbans still ...
by UncleDavid
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on Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 08:32 PM PST
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Washington State citizen initiative boogie man Tim Eyman is the chief sponsor of I-1033 , a property ...
by lapin
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on Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 04:50 PM PDT
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Colorado's TABOR laws are working exactly as planned. Taxes are down and the government in some counties and towns have been reduced in ...
by Oreo
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on Mon Mar 02, 2009 at 07:00 AM PST
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A State of Colorado program which provides scholarships to students attending private and public colleges in the state, in lieu of institutional support to public colleges and universities,
by ohwilleke
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on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:43 PM PDT
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A while back I wrote a post about how the conservative movement is in shambles in the Rocky Mountain ...
by davidsirota
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on Sat Oct 20, 2007 at 03:48 PM PDT
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Paul Jacob, one of the chief strategists behind the recent flood of libertarian ballot measures, ...
by halfasspete
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on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:59 PM PDT
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Well, early September is here, and as promised, my first new column for Creators Syndicate is now being published. As you will see, it is about a little-reported but HUGELY important issue happening ...
by davidsirota
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on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 09:05 AM PDT
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