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Who Raided Your Share of $2.8 Billion in TABOR Tax Refunds?

As a result of 101 bills passed by the Colorado legislature, over $2.8 billion in state TABOR refunds will not be distributed to Colorado taxpayers between 2024 and 2026, according to a recent report from the Common Sense Institute (CSI). This amount represents nearly half of the projected $6 billion in TABOR refunds expected over the next three years.

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Ballot initiatives seek to ban biological boys in girls’ sports, require schools to notify parents over ‘gender incongruence’

A parent who sued the Wellington School District over an LGBTQ middle-high school club is seeking to put a measure in front of voters in November that would require schools to notify parents when their child expresses “gender incongruence.”

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Gov. Polis vetoes 6 bills dealing with variety of subjects, 300 more awaiting his penstroke

Gov. Jared Polisโ€™ office announced late Friday evening that the governor has rejected six bills, including measures that deal with employee discipline, construction wages and the treatment of energy derived from burning solid waste.ย 

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Only 3 state legislators get ‘A’ grade on ’24 Liberty Scorecard, 87% of legislators fail the test

Three percent of all state legislators graded an A and 87% of legislators had a failing grade in the Liberty Scorecard Colorado ratings released Friday following the close of the 74th General Assembly.

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The stateโ€™s largest utility will file a new wildfire mitigation plan next month. What might that look like?

An inquiry by state regulators into Xcel Energyโ€™s April โ€œpublic safetyโ€ electricity outage โ€” which created chaos in parts of the Front Range โ€” has yielded a list of potential steps utilities and communities might take to limit future problems.

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Ten bills passed in session, earning some bipartisan support, aimed to address variety of water issues

Colorado lawmakers gave the thumbs-up to 10 water measures this year that will bring millions of dollars in new funding to help protect streams, bring oversight to construction activities in wetlands and rivers, make commercial rainwater harvesting easier and support efforts to restore the clarity of Grand Lake.

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