Articles By Brian Eason
Is Colorado’s 2019 ballot question about TABOR spending caps really a tax hike? The answer is sort of.
The question at the heart of the political debate for November's ballot leads to two correct and seemingly contradictory answers
As Colorado’s governor, lawmakers target tax breaks, a program that covers 75% of the state’s land could be in the crosshairs
A Colorado Sun analysis of $223 million in tax credits awarded from 2013 to 2018 found that the state is often doling out taxpayer dollars without much evidence that each tax credit is producing economic activity that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise
A new Colorado report tries to show what higher education is worth. The value is clearer for some degrees than others.
Colorado students, especially would-be teachers, are making cost-benefit choices of their own and switching to more lucrative programs
Colorado is spending record sums on transportation. But state highways are getting less.
A partisan split on whether to use state funds to help local governments’ transportation needs foreshadows even more difficult choices down the road
Colorado needs affordable housing. The state owns land. Can this combination work?
Gov. Jared Polis is urging the State Land Board to address housing shortage for teachers, part of a campaign promise he made
What PERA’s bad year means for public workers, retirees and taxpayers in Colorado, explained in charts
Most of what the government puts into the pension system is covering unfunded debt, not the retirement of current workers and teachers
Low pay. Cuts to PERA. For some state workers in Colorado, it’s like the recession never ended.
For Colorado government workers, recent pay hikes are negated by rising pension contributions, and vacant positions are becoming harder to fill
As rural Colorado fears being overlooked in 2020 census, some question spending money on outreach
The stakes for the census count are real: A study estimates a loss of $63 million for a 1% undercount of Colorado residents
PERA lost $1.8 billion after brutal finish for 2018 stocks. Now public workers and taxpayers will pay more.
Colorado taxpayers and state employees will need to pay more as new guardrails designed to shore up the system are triggered
