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Penn Pfiffner, a Senior Fellow of the Independence Institute, has released an analysis of Proposition 103, including measuring the size of its tax hike, explaining the likely shell game to be played with the money raised, and showing how throwing more m… more »

While there are no state-wide candidates on Colorado's mail-in ballot this year, there are nevertheless a few things worth paying close attention to and worth voting on. First, Proposition 103, a gigantic tax hike marketed, as usual, as being "for the… more »

[Make sure you read through at least the middle of this article. I have a fascinating tidbit for you...] Like many Coloradans, I received a robo-call supporting Proposition 103, in which the disembodied female supporter describes 103 as a "five-year ti… more »

Colorado's SB200 which created a health care "exchange" for the state after the bill was sponsored by House Majority Leader Amy Stephens (R-Monument) is already demonstrating the first of its unintended consequences. By this I mean the consequences unin… more »

For my Colorado readers (or anyone ready to travel here on short notice) who are lovers of liberty and free markets, if you don't already have plans this weekend, I urge you to register for and attend the Steamboat Institute's Third Annual Freedom Confe… more »

Yesterday, the Denver Post ran my letter to the editor regarding the likelihood of Denver having a ballot measure which would mandate that companies of more than 10 employees give each employee nine days of paid sick leave each year. I think the proposa… more »

Colorado legislature's Democrats' bad faith during redistricting "negotiations" was, many of us thought, due to their primary interest being on furthering the political aspirations of State Senate President Brandon Shaffer. Shaffer, who on Monday annou… more »

H/T Jen Raiffie I was fairly brutal to Scott McInnis during the 2010 Colorado gubernatorial campaign. To be sure, I wasn't alone, and I did slightly prefer McInnis to Dan Maes even after the news of McInnis' "plagiarism" came to light. In short, I sai… more »

A regular reader of these pages, Scott Elmore, has abandoned his company's many-year affiliation with the National Federation of Independent Business over that group's support of Colorado's SB200 which would set up a government-run (or at least quasi-go… more »

Before going further, let me say that as Denver Post political reporters go, I like Allison Sherry.  I know that certain Republican operatives think she was (very) biased toward Michael Bennet during the recent US Senate campaign, and I don't have evide… more »