Senate Republicans Monday night said they found one industry whose tax break they actually were OK with eliminating: newspapers.
Newspapers are not subject to sales tax, and eliminating the exemption would result in more than $7.3' [...]
A new poll shows Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper leading the likely Republican nominee to be the next governor of Colorado.
A Rasmussen poll [...]
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Most politicians still do not realize Tea Party voters are angry with both major parties for many of the SAME reasons. Democrat and Republican players (pundits and most of media for that matter) do not see that We the People can look at the parties objectively, analyze, compare/contrast, and form [...]
Democrats in the Colorado General Assembly have backed away from trying to tax Internet retailers based on whether they have “affiliates” in Colorado. That approach, which would have said that if a Coloradoan had an ad for Amazon.com or Overstock.com on his web page, that would mean Colorado would deem [...]
Coloradans voted against legalization of marijuana in 2006 after approving it as a medicine in 2000. But now lawmakers are struggling with an upsurge in dispensaries and ill-defined “medical” users. How should public policly balance freedom, virtue, prudence, and practicality in dealing with this issue? Specifically, why not legalize all [...]
Todd Engdahl at Ed News Colorado reported Friday on two educational tax credit bills (HB 1295 and HB 1296) being introduced in the legislature, and closed with this comment:
While the proposals could make for interesting debate, they’re expected to fail for three reasons: 1) Democrats control the legislature, [...]
Todd Engdahl at Ed News Colorado reported Friday on two educational tax credit bills (HB 1295 and HB 1296) being introduced in the legislature, and closed with this comment:
While the proposals could make for interesting debate, they’re expected to fail for three reasons: 1) Democrats control the legislature, 2) [...]
In case you thought City Council’s reprieve earlier this winter reflected a soft spot in their heart for the homeless forced to live in tents, in reality the city attorneys advised any purge of the unsightly camps be delayed until an iron-clad ordinance could be devised. The suggested legal verbiage [...]
President Obama has offered to meet with the Republicans to discuss health care. It's what they wanted, right? It's what they asked for. W-e-l-l-l-l, it turns out that they're only willing to meet if Obama scraps everything that has been accomplished already.
These are the same people who [...]
What does that make Wal-Mart and their seemingly endless resources of Manufacturers pushing products that get recalled not just by the United States Corporate-Owned “watchdog” Lapdog Agencies, products that mostly are marketed as toys or furnishings for Kids? But also by the Chinese agencies, legendary for their diligence in regulating [...]
Followed a link about the ads during the SuperDuperIncredibleBowl being about Victimized Males. Dodge Ram, “That thing got a Hemi? Sweet!” Homoeroticism campaign turned over to a guy who is so powerless in his own life that he has to drive a car that’s more macho than he is.
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Sen. Michael Bennet (D)
One year ago, many voters in Colorado were [...]
The Denver Post reports that Colorado “House Bill 1008 would bar health insurance companies from using gender as a basis for setting different premium rates for men and women.” Basically, insurers generally charge women higher premiums than men. Supporters of the bill want to make this illegal, and hence [...]
The Colorado Wildlife Commission will consider naming a state wildlife area on the South Platte River after the late Charlie Meyers, the Denver Post's outdoor writer.Melamine is back in the Chinese food chain, coming from milk product supposed to have been destroyed after the food industry scandal which killed six Chinese infants and left the health of thousands permanently debilitated. International conglomerate Danone was named then among the villains, but at that time, many [...]
