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All of Colorado’s living governors are now on the record on Proposition CC, after five Democrats came down in favor of the tax measure on this year’s ballot on Tuesday morning. Republican Gov. Bill Owens, who served from 1999 to 2007, is one of the leaders of the opposition to the ballot measure. In 2005,…

Republican state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling, one of the state Capitol’s most knowledgeable lawmakers on water, announced Monday he will be a “no” vote on Proposition DD. That’s the ballot measure that will ask voters to approve a 10% tax on net proceeds on sports betting though casinos licensed in Blackhawk, Central City and Cripple…

Voters across Colorado will decide two statewide measures in the election that ends Nov. 5, and many of them will also elect municipal and school board officials, as well as vote on a range of local ballot questions ranging from taxes and debt to marijuana and broadband. The state’s 3.94 million active registered voters should…

You don’t have to be a rocket science to figure out the Nov. 5 ballot in Colorado. A college degree, however, would help. Propositions CC and DD are “very difficult” to understand, says their readability index. Proposition CC would let the state keep refunds granted by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights to fund schools and…

The political action committee founded by gun-reform activist Gabrielle Giffords is throwing $50,000 behind an ad supporting Aurora mayoral candidate Omar Montgomery, the group announced Wednesday. The ad draws a contrast between Montgomery, the head of the Aurora chapter of the NAACP and a survivor of gun violence, and former Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, his…

The Centennial Institute made its point of view clear on taxes and gambling Wednesday as it came out against Proposition CC and Proposition DD on the Nov. 5 ballot. The conservative think tank is against taking away the occasional rebates granted by the Taxpayer’s Bill or Rights, which is what Proposition CC aims to do…