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TABOR timeout ballot measure won’t go to voters this year

A group trying to convince voters to hit the pause button on the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which limits government spending, has officially...

TABOR architect Douglas Bruce sentenced to the slammer. Again.

  Talk about a late Friday news dump. The man who became an anti-tax folk hero for convincing voters to pass Colorado's statewide Taxpayer's Bill of...

Wisdom from Bill Murray: Don’t bet on Colorado elections

  COLORADO SPRINGS — An election over whether to raise the local sales tax here to fix potholes is over — it passed — but...

Reader’s view: Tax-evader Douglas Bruce’s TABOR keeps voters from raising taxes,...

Anti-tax fanatic and now-convicted tax-evader Douglas Bruce sold us a bill of goods in 1992 when voters approved the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or...

Statetap: Happy Tax Day for everybody but Douglas Bruce

Taxing Days Happy Tax Day. For Douglas Bruce, the author of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, things aren't so happy. He was convicted of tax...

Wiretap: Gun-rights group says: We need ammo to fight tyranny

Another Round Rocky Mountain Gun Owners — Colorado’s main, hard-charging, no-compromise gun-rights group — will not support a law to increase the state's controversial 15-round...

Douglas Bruce featured on The Daily Beast

It wasn't enough for Doug Bruce to dedicate a large part of his life to reducing the taxes Coloradans pay. He apparently had to take it a step further and make his quest personal as well as professional.

Douglas Bruce hits the big time–arrest covered by NY Times

It wasn't bad enough that Douglas Bruce lost a bid to join the Colorado Springs City Council last week. It still wasn't bad enough when he was arrested Friday for tax evasion.

‘Bad Three’ tax-cutting measures soundly defeated

Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, draconian tax-slashing measures deemed so potentially devastating to state finances that opponents took to calling them the...

‘Bad Three’ grabbing national attention

It's probably not fair to say everyone’s talking about Colorado’s three tax-cutting ballot proposals, but it is safe to say they are now getting...
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