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Lakewood voters to decide on eliminating taxpayer protections in November

Approved, completecolorado.com, Local / September 12, 2024 / Elections, Lakewood, TABOR

The Lakewood City Council in August referred a measure to the November 5 ballot asking voters to permanently eliminate revenue limitations in place under the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). Despite some complicated ballot wording, a yes vote on the measure boils down to an end to refunds of taxes over-collected by the city for good starting in 2026.

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Caldara: Colorado Press Association rewards secretive government

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / September 12, 2024 / Colorado Press Association, Government corruption, Media

What’s worse: people in political power shielding their activity from public oversight or the media celebrating them for doing so?

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High-profile chefs join opposition to meat processing ban on Denver’s November ballot

Approved, completecolorado.com, Local / September 11, 2024 / Ballots, Meat Processing ban

Several high profile Denver chefs have joined forces with a group who work closely with the Colorado livestock industry to oppose an anti-agriculture initiative that will go before Denver voters in November.

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Caldara: Learning to live without a functional Colorado GOP

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / September 5, 2024 / Colorado Republican Party

I’m trying to come up with the right analogy. I’m sure you can do much better.

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Caldara: Denver’s record high homeless entirely predictable

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / August 23, 2024 / Commentary, Jon Caldara

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a famed British naval historian (I mean really, just try to make up a snootier British name) who died in 1993.

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Caldara: Even out-of-favor political minorities need protecting

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / August 20, 2024 / Commentary, Jon Caldara

The left works hard to make the bizarre mainstream. The transgender movement is a shining example of just how good they are at it. Ya know, if only you’d learn about all 64 genders and the associated newspeak, you’d understand.

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Caldara: Raise a glass to the Coors Foundation

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / August 8, 2024 / Commentary, Coors Foundation, Jon Caldara

When I was a kid, I’d collect old tin cans and the newfangled aluminum beer cans. My father would drive me down to the Coors distribution warehouse in Littleton. They’d weigh them and they gave me cash, real cash in my hand for recycling.

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Caldara: At CU you can get a domestic terrorist scholarship

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com / May 30, 2024 / Commentary, Jon Caldara

Confiscating money from people who never went to college, as well as those who foolishly paid off their own college loans, to give the booty to those who knowingly agreed to pay back their loans isn’t enough.

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Initiatives to open primaries, bring ranked choice voting challenged in Colorado Supreme Court

Approved, completecolorado.com, State / May 28, 2024 / Elections

DENVER — While two ballot initiatives dealing with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) are already either gathering signatures or in the petition approval phase with the secretary of state, two more citizen-initiated measures that would completely upend Colorado elections are going through an appeals process with the Colorado Supreme Court.

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Gaines: Imagine if journalists covered guns like they do abortion

Approved, Commentary, completecolorado.com, State / May 23, 2024 / Gun rights, Legislative Session

I think you can take Democrat House Majority Leader Duran at her word when she recently told CPR News, that she and her colleagues made passing gun control legislation “…routine, just as anything else that we run.” Since taking over all levers of power at the state level, and suffering no negative consequences, majority Democrats have indeed made gun control legislation “routine” in Colorado.

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