Hick plan kicks off painful slog to 2017-18 state budget

The 2017 legislative preseason officially kicked off Tuesday with release of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s proposed state budget for 2017-18. The proposal includes some fancy financial footwork, including transfers from cash funds, a reduction of Hospital Provider Fee income to avoid TABOR refunds to taxpayers, an increase in the K-12 negative factor and reductions in General[…]

No Son of Ref C this election

Colorado Priorities, the good-government group pushing a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to hold on to “excess” revenues, has pulled out of the 2016 election. The shelved measure was sort of a “Son of Ref C,” the successful 2005 initiative that allowed state government to keep revenues that otherwise would have been[…]