Throughout 2008, Gov. Bill Ritter advocated for growing the budget and spent his summer campaigning for tax increases. He only more recently acknowledged the dire fiscal shortages facing the state.
The numbers are in, and they’re not pretty: Lawmakers must find nearly $600 million in spending cuts, in just six months.
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Outgoing Rep. Doug Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, may be bitter, but he’s right.
In a Wednesday e-mail to reporters and a group of fellow state lawmakers, Bruce calls out the Denver Post editorial board for lying about his baby, better known as the Taxpayers Bill of Rights.
Following the defeat of two measures on the statewide ballot, a joint effort by Colorado's three largest education lobbying groups to alter the state's tax system has been left in a lurch.
Our favorite ex-state legislator is at it again. And no, Doug Bruce didn’t kick another photographer.
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You can’t make this stuff up – the state Treasurer says she wants to “drive a stake in the heart” of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights.
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Face The State's Brad Jones, sitting in for 600 KCOL's morning team Keith and Gail, speaks with former Colorado legislator Penn Pfiffner about Amendment 59, House Speaker Andrew Romanoff's effort to repeal much of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.
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Mark Grueskin, an attorney frequently used by Democrats to litigate heated political issues, is at it again. On Thursday, he tried to convince the Colorado Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that a $3.8 billion tax increase, imposed by the state legislature and backed by Gov. Bill Ritter, violated a state constitutional amendment mandating that all tax increases require voter approval.
