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The Colorado Constitution currently states that every citizen who has attained the age of 18 years, has resided in the state for some time as may be prescribed, and has duly registered as a voter...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Proposition EE would tax nicotine from all sides, adding to cigarette taxes, taxing wholesalers and for the first time taxing vaping. (Chewing tobacco is targeted as well.) Imaginatively, the...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Supporters and opponents of Proposition 117, which will require voters to approve any new state enterprise that is expected to be supported by more than $100 million in revenue from fees over five...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In 1982, the Gallagher Amendment was needed to halt the climbing residential taxes that Coloradans were facing. Included in an equation that set residential taxes at 45% of what would be collected,...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A Yes vote on Amendment 77 will change state constitution and law to allow residents of Central City, Black Hawk and Cripple Creek to expand gaming and gaming limits. All three are former gold...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Proposition 115, an addition to the state’s statutes, has been put added to the ballot by signature gatherers. It would penalize doctors with a misdemeanor charge and a fine, and a temporary loss...
DATE: Sept. 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the most significant questions on the November ballot is the creation of a paid family and medical leave enterprise within the state’s Department of Labor. Most employers and employees in...
DATE: Sept. 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In what is the least impactful question on the November ballot, voters are being asked to make it quicker for new charities to organize bingo games and raffles for their fundraisers. Instead of...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our endorsements will continue, addressing the 11 questions and multiple candidates, on one or two print days a week through Oct. 21. They will also be posted on the Journal ’s website, under...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Two-thirds of a million dollars in in-kind contributions so far, is being used to advocate cutting the state’s individual and corporate tax rates from 4.63% to 4.55%. With the damage done to payers...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Leadership seems always to be on our minds. We think we know what it is by pointing to heroes such as George Washington, whose greatest act, because his most selfless, was to step down from the...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Is it really true that we can’t have any fun anymore, that escapism is not a healthy periodic indulgence but rather the neglect of all the things we cannot solve but about which we are supposed to...
DATE: Aug. 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
