The legislature passed a bill in 2021 allowing Coloradans to defer payment on any increase in their property tax bill over 4% by making it a lien against their home
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Opinion: The pieces are in place to turn Colorado’s clean energy transition into an economic boom
Lower costs and more jobs are possible — if the parties in the General Assembly work together
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Silverman: Like many others, I have left downtown Denver, but not entirely
A month has passed since my workplace change. I’ve departed downtown Denver for the first time since 1980. I’m loving my new DTC law firm and mini-commute. My brother Bill and Grandpa Harry were downtown Denver lawyers. So was my father. Bill and Harry only departed because of diabetes and heart attacks respectively. They were […]
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Nicolais: My stepdaughter won in the housing lottery that is the Colorado real estate market
Earlier this month my stepdaughter and her boyfriend bought their first home. They ended up in a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house near Columbine. It has a two-car garage and decent size yards in front and back. Feel free to gasp at their accomplishment in the current market. They are both in their mid 20s, recently completed […]
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Jim Morrissey: Can Jared Polis’ Colorado refund checks catch up to inflation?
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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Colorado’s governor, Democrats unveil plan to advance TABOR refund checks expected in spring 2023
Coloradans would receive their tax refunds for the current fiscal year up to eight months early under a bill unveiled Monday by Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers. Individual taxpayers would receive $400 under the plan while families would get $800. The money would be sent out as soon as August — before the […]
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Littwin: As his poll numbers plunge, Biden tries for a mask-free State of the Union reset
If you were in search of the key takeaway from Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, all you had to do was look at his face. Or Kamala Harris’ face. Or Nancy Pelosi’s face. Or, for that matter, the faces of most people in the House chamber. You could see their faces because the […]
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Why Coloradans have quit their jobs: “What price my soul?”
After 10 years at her job, Nancy Johnson walked away on New Year’s Eve. Her employer offered good health benefits and made use of her more than two decades of medical billing experience. But she’d hit a wage wall. The Carbondale resident had even become a certified medical coder because it was a path to […]
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Colorado lawmakers know where they want to direct federal COVID funding. They just have to figure out how.
After months of discussion, three bipartisan legislative task forces have finalized their recommendations for how Colorado should spend $2.6 billion in American Rescue Plan Act dollars to increase affordable housing, improve Coloradans’ mental health and boost the state’s economic recovery from the pandemic. Now, it’s time for state lawmakers to figure out how they will […]
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Opinion: Why COVID drove me to change my career
I closed my business during the pandemic. The company was growing, we were hiring, and the business had a healthy pipeline of new customers, but the draw toward change was strong. A year into the pandemic and after five years running my marketing agency, I ended contracts with clients and told my employees to start […]