TABOR, which includes provisions that are rapidly closing a vise on state spending, will soon undermine the quality of services provided to taxpayers.
The Durango Herald | Kristen Wyatt | Posted 06.11.2011
Largressa Munnerlyn wants lawmakers to know that. She survived breast cancer, thanks to a state screening program now under threat from budget cuts. ...
Luis Toro | Posted 06.06.2011
Buried in the bipartisan state budget compromise unveiled yesterday was a steep cut to the tiny budget of the Independent Ethics Commission, reducing the commission's staff from two to one.
The Denver Post | Tim Hoover | Posted 06.05.2011
Colorado lawmakers -- in both houses -- appear to have reached a tentative agreement on the state budget, a deal that involves restoring tax exemption...
KDVR | Eli Stokols | Posted 06.01.2011
DENVER -- Senate President Brandon Shaffer stormed out of a dinner with House Speaker Frank McNulty and Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp after McNult...
KDVR | Eli Stokols | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER -- Turns out Colorado isn't as broke as it thought. For the long-term, the state is still pretty broke. But an unexpected spike in tax rev...
Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been pointed out numerous times of late that those good protesters who dumped tea into Boston Harbor in 1773 weren't against taxation. They wanted representation!
Posted 05.25.2011
State Senator Greg Brophy shed some light Wednesday on the Colorado Republican Party's thinking regarding the state's budget. The Senator from Wray, ...
Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
Colorado businesses and residents with delinquent taxes can pay them later this year under an amnesty bill introduced Wednesday -- if the state can al...
Denver Business Journal | Ed Sealover | Posted 05.25.2011
Medicaid, K-12 education and corrections budgets will increase by more than the amount of new money that Colorado brings in over the next 15 years, fo...
Michael J. McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed $570 million in budgets cuts, hacking off $332 million from K-12 education and trimming only a paltry $10 million from prisons.
Posted 05.25.2011
According to a new study, Colorado stands to add up to $5 million to its coffers over the next three years if the Legislature passes a bill that recog...
Posted 05.25.2011
"Make no mistake, the choices we are making today will hurt," Governor John Hickenlooper said on Tuesday as he delivered his budget plan to the Joint ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Governor John Hickenlooper delivered his budget plan for the 2011-2012 fiscal year to the Joint Budget Committee on Tuesday. The Governor is proposin...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
While Colorado's new governor campaigned on promises of being an education governor, he has just proposed historically massive cuts to its already comparatively underfunded public schools.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Charles Ashby | Posted 05.25.2011
Legislators from both major political parties started the 2011 legislative session last month promising to cut the size of government, but the measure...
The Durango Herald | Joe Hanel | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER -- House Republicans abandoned efforts to compromise on an early fight about the state budget Thursday, a move that leaves the Legislature in v...
The Denver Post | Tim Hoover | Posted 05.25.2011
In another reversal of fortune, Secretary of State Scott Gessler will get to keep the $2 million from his cash fund that the legislature's Joint Budge...
EdNewsColorado | Todd Engdahl | Posted 05.25.2011
There was no good news about the future of state support for K-12 schools at the Joint Budget Committee's Friday briefing on the Department of Educa...
Posted 05.25.2011
A bill that would have eliminated tax exemptions for Pinnacol Assurance was killed in the Joint Budget Committee on Thursday The bill, introduced in ...
The Denver Post | Tim Hoover | Posted 05.25.2011
There have been a few party-line votes on the legislature's now evenly split Joint Budget Committee, but one 3-3 decision on Tuesday reverberated thro...
Jill Hanauer | Posted 05.25.2011
Every January after an election, politicians of all stripes make speeches claiming to know exactly what is on the mind of voters. The Congress and Co...
EdNewsColorado | Todd Engdahl | Posted 05.25.2011
How would Colorado's public colleges and universities manage their budgets if state tax support were cut in half? A new report from the Colorado ...
The Pueblo Chieftain | PATRICK MALONE | Posted 05.25.2011
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Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
The Colorado Legislative Council's quarterly economic and revenue forecast, issued Monday, showed little movement from third-quarter predictions, a si...
Miller Hudson | Posted 05.24.2012