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Plan to quadruple property taxes on short-term rentals fails in late-night Capitol committee vote

A bill that would have quadrupled the property taxes on many homes offered as short-term rentals in Colorado was rejected late Tuesday in a Colorado Senate committee, marking at least the third time in recent years that such a proposal has failed at the Capitol. 

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Colorado congressional candidates report contributions, cash in bank ahead of crowded primaries

As he has every quarter this election cycle, Democrat Adam Frisch bowled over Colorado’s other congressional candidates in the campaign finance department in reports filed this week covering the first three months of the year.

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Do only four frontrunners remain in 4th District race? It appeared that way in Kit Carson County.

BURLINGTON — A handful of candidates vying to become Eastern Colorado’s next representative to Congress didn’t make one of the state’s bright, bright red counties a destination here Friday for the Kit Carson County Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner.

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Martinez: Court sends a reminder; tax hikes require voter consent

In a major victory for taxpayers, a unanimous panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals agreed with the National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s Taxpayer Defense Center (NTUF) that an overnight doubling of the property taxes in a few Northern Colorado counties violated the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).

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