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2018 Ballot Measures

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Guest Post: Amendment 74 – A Pandora’s box of property rights 'The only people...

Colorado voters this fall will consider Colorado constitutional Amendment 74 , which suggests that property owners will receive just compensation when government reduces the...
Mindy Thompson, teacher and union representative at Kaiser Elementary, demonstrates her support for Amendment 73 during a rally in Denver on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. The measure, which would have raised taxes on corporations and high-income households for education funding, was resoundingly rejected by voters. (Photo by Rachel Lorenz)

‘We need the funding, and so do our kids.’ Colorado teachers take to the...

Waving “Yes on Amendment 73” signs, Denver teachers formed red-shirted clusters along Colfax Avenue Friday afternoon. “We’re just trying to get people to support teachers,”...

Citizens put renewable energy on this year’s ballots Across several states, voter-driven initiatives rein...

The fossil fuel-friendly Trump administration has been busy rolling back environmental regulations and opening millions of acres of public land to oil and gas...

Tax breaks for the rich and a ‘bargain with the devil’: Colorado candidates for...

Colorado’s Democratic candidate for governor is the founder of a charter school network, and the Republican candidate is a longtime supporter of charter schools...

Here’s how some districts would spend their share of a $1.6 billion tax hike...

If Colorado voters this November approve a $1.6 billion tax increase to benefit schools, several metro-area districts are pledging to spend part of their...
Under the new MOU with Broomfield, Extraction would abandon the Lowell Pad, pictured here, and put in a new 19-well site named Livingston just southwest of Lowell, between Wildgrass and Anthem developments. (Ted Wood/The Story Group)

Key Colorado ballot initiatives have corporations spending tens of millions for your vote

Millions of dollars from special interests is going to support or fight three policy issues: a battle over how to pay for transportation needs,...
Kent Thiry, John Kickenlooper, Heidi Ganahl, Duran, Kevin Grantham, Mike Kopp, Martha Tierney

A star-studded campaign launches to end gerrymandering in Colorado. It took a grand bargain...

Last week, a galaxy of powerbrokers kicked off a campaign to persuade 55 percent of the Colorado electorate to say 'Yes' in November to two...

The big questions on your November 2018 ballot in Colorado

From slavery to hemp to fixing our “damn roads,” Coloradans will face a kaleidoscope of questions on their November ballots. With the election more...

New rule to ‘raise the bar’ for ballot measures wasn’t high enough for this...

In 2016, a group ran a campaign that put an interesting proposition on the ballot for Coloradans: The question asked voters to change the...

Denver’s Chamber fired ballot petition company for working with fractivists

A secret recording. An alleged payoff. A surprise twist involving a heavy-hitter Denver business group. It’s all part of a volatile story that continues...
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