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Gov. Bill Ritter threw his support today behind a proposed ballot question to change two financial mandates in the Colorado Constitution - the Taxpayer's...
Few know the condition of the state's highways and roads better than the director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Russell George. He commutes...
Senator Ken Salazar won a highly prized committee assignment today when he was named to the Senate Finance Committee.
The committee has oversight on...
Maine already has a TABOR-like spending-limitation law. Proposed by Governor John Baldacci, it passed the state legislature in January 2005 -- just two months...
Last week, the backer of Missouri's TABOR initiative told a district court judge that initiative signatures should be considered valid even if submitted in...
A quick update from the TABOR battle in Montana:
In court actions filed Tuesday, Attorney Jonathan Motl accused that state's TABOR proponents of "the most...
Montana's version of TABOR, Constitutional Initiative 97 (or CI-97), hasn't officially made the ballot yet. Its signatures still await certification by Sec'y of State...