Tag: Americans For Prosperity
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Confusion swirls as Colorado imposes new retail delivery fee, catching businesses by surprise
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado consumers will start noticing a 27-cent fee on receipts for almost everything that gets delivered to them, including restaurant food, after Colorado’s new “retail delivery fee” took effect July 1. The fee must be collected and paid to the state by retailers “on all…
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Polis digs in as criticism grows over handling of latest COVID surge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In early April, Gov. Jared Polis’s public optimism neared its apex. After a winter spent fighting an unprecedented COVID-19 surge, cases were falling, mortality had plummeted, vaccines were flowing and a Colorado summer beckoned. Four months before, the governor had giddily greeted a FedEx truck…
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Q&A w/Michael Fields | A new voice to keep conservatives on message
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This fall’s coming cage fight between Colorado’s left and right will include at least one contender who’s battle-tested, agile and streetwise — at the tender age of 31. Michael Fields has emerged in no time as a leading man for conservative causes and a tormentor…
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Backlash at transportation tax proposal spawns a ballot drive of its own
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hey, how about a ballot issue to upgrade the state’s woefully bottlenecked, backlogged and aging highway network — without raising taxes? You want it? You got it: The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute in Denver announced it filed a ballot proposal with the state today that would require the General Assembly to issue…
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Q&A: AFP’s Michael Fields on funding transportation and enraging Capitol dealmakers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State lawmakers have made boosting transportation funding a top priority this year. Negotiations have been underway for months and they are ongoing. Democrats and Republicans involved in the talks seem as committed to making a deal happen as they are anxious about keeping all the…