Election 2016

Billions in tax hikes at stake in school elections

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The November election is shaping up as the biggest in Colorado history for school district bond and tax override proposals. A preliminary list compiled last month by the Colorado School Finance Project comes to nearly $4 billion in possible bond measures and property tax overrides. If all the districts listed take the plunge, the 2016[…]

No Son of Ref C this election

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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[…]