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A $1.6 billion tax increase for Colorado education just got a...

Supporters of more funding for Colorado schools turned in more than 170,000 signatures Wednesday to place a $1.6 billion tax measure on the November...

Colorado’s superintendents want (a lot) more money for schools and a...

Colorado’s superintendents want to change how the state distributes money to school districts – but only if voters are willing to approve a $1.7 billion...

Littwin: Republicans deal out a hand of overreach poker at the...

Looking at the array of problems facing Democrats in this post-recall election year, what do the Republicans do? That's right, just what you'd expect them to do.

Littwin: No new taxes! And no other plan.

We're stuck with our Gordian knot. I love the Greek myths, but the current-day myth that you don't need money to fix educational shortfalls is all American.

Wiretap: After the swerve right, inching left

Colorado liberals depressed about the disaster that was Amendment 66, take heart: E.J. Dionne says the results of elections around the country show the nation is moving left. It's what he said.

How to talk — or not talk — about taxes

Here’s the thing: While taxes are a critical part of our work, we can’t talk about them. Not directly, at least, and certainly not in an election. I’ve learned to leave out the “t” word as much as possible.

Colorado voters reject billion-dollar education tax proposal

DENVER -- Frustrating, heartbreaking, disappointing, even devastating — words heard all over the hotel ballroom here where supporters of Amendment 66 gathered to watch the votes come in. What no one said aloud, but what was smuggled into the phrase “we came up short,” was the question How did it go so terribly wrong?

Littwin: The bomb squad failed

Amendment 66 went down in humiliating flames. That's bad for Hickenlooper! But it's worse for education which, like everything else, will get less money. Hear that sound? The election is over but Doug Bruce's TABOR time bomb is still ticking.

Colorado Election Day live blog

It's an off-year election in swing-state Colorado and there aren't a whole lot of candidates on ballots. There are, however, important questions voters are being asked to weigh.

Election Day Quiz: Do you look like a winner?

It's Election Day, meaning it's time for our first annual election quiz. There will be a prize. We just haven't figured out what it is yet.
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