DENVER (AP) — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed next year's budget for Colorado on Monday, a spending plan that includes more funding for public schools...
Colorado's Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper today is presenting lawmakers with a budget that does not include any major spending cuts for the fir...
So how are we doing? Are we making the right investments for future Coloradans? What will our legacy be? This is not ivory tower, egghead stuff. It's practical and it's real, and every Coloradan needs to weigh in.
TABOR, which includes provisions that are rapidly closing a vise on state spending, will soon undermine the quality of services provided to taxpayers.
Largressa Munnerlyn wants lawmakers to know that. She survived breast cancer, thanks to a state screening program now under threat from budget cuts. ...
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.
Colorado lawmakers -- in both houses -- appear to have reached a tentative agreement on the state budget, a deal that involves restoring tax exemption...
DENVER -- Senate President Brandon Shaffer stormed out of a dinner with House Speaker Frank McNulty and Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp after McNult...
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...
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!
State Senator Greg Brophy shed some light Wednesday on the Colorado Republican Party's thinking regarding the state's budget. The Senator from Wray, ...
Colorado businesses and residents with delinquent taxes can pay them later this year under an amnesty bill introduced Wednesday -- if the state can al...
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...
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.
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...
"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 ...
Governor John Hickenlooper delivered his budget plan for the 2011-2012 fiscal year to the Joint Budget Committee on Tuesday. The Governor is proposin...
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.
Legislators from both major political parties started the 2011 legislative session last month promising to cut the size of government, but the measure...
DENVER -- House Republicans abandoned efforts to compromise on an early fight about the state budget Thursday, a move that leaves the Legislature in v...
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...
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...
A bill that would have eliminated tax exemptions for Pinnacol Assurance was killed in the Joint Budget Committee on Thursday The bill, introduced in ...
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...
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...
