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John Hickenlooper’s legal defense against ethics complaint cost taxpayers $150,000, a final tally shows
Colorado paid an outside attorney $525 an hour to represent the former governor against the ethics complaint first made in October 2018
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Now that Colorado lawmakers have put Gallagher repeal on the ballot, will they actually be able to pass it?
By Brian Eason Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Opinion: The climate disrupters are coming out of the woodwork, and they aren’t afraid
By Diana Bray Opinion
$10 million poured into 2019 election, but big money couldn’t push Proposition CC to passage
By Sandra Fish Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
The political stakes for Proposition CC are huge. It’s a test case for a major fiscal overhaul in Colorado.
The supporters of the ballot question to end TABOR's limits on tax collections signaled that the measure is just the first step toward untying the state's fiscal knot
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
The TABOR battle is reaching new levels. Critics are testing 18 ways to rewrite Colorado tax policy.
The challenge to unraveling TABOR, Amendment 23 and the Gallagher Amendment starts with finding the right ballot wording ahead of 2020 election
Democratic lawmakers want to ask voters in 2019 to end TABOR cap, but Polis is not so sure
The measure would amount to the most substantial effort in years to rollback the state’s unique limits on government spending
Democratic candidate for Colorado attorney general, Phil Weiser, talks about his tracker mea culpa
Phil Weiser: "We're building in protections so it doesn't happen again."
