Joshua Sharf, Author at Independence Institute

Listen! Constitution Posts in Audio Format, read by Rob Natelson 0
- Constitution
- February 21, 2024
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Notice to Readers from Rob Natelson 0
- Constitution, CONSTITUTION - Supreme Court
- February 10, 2022
Salon.com issued a defamatory article it has refused to correct.
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The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado 0
- EDUCATION - Issue Papers, EDUCATION - Online Education
- July 17, 2013
Online tools combined with face-to-face instruction create what is known as blended learning. Effective integration of technology can allow more efficient use of instructional time and save schools money. Colorado is well positioned to implement and test blended learning programs on a larger scale. Charter and district public schools have begun to implement blended learning models and have seen promising results.
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Review of Colorado’s Property Taxes and Model Policy 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Papers, FISCAL - Publications
- September 4, 2024
Over the last few years, Colorado’s property tax system has been the subject of considerable debate and efforts toward reform. Rapidly rising residential property values and a structure that gave relief to residential owners, but not commercial property owners, pushed the issue to the fore of the state’s fiscal discussion.
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Fees, Enterprises, and Colorado 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Issue Papers, FISCAL - Publications, TABOR
- July 29, 2020
This issue paper discusses how Colorado has created loopholes, such as fees and enterprises, to bypass the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).
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Denver sales tax measures: Too many, too much 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials
- October 22, 2018
The price tag to city residents and shoppers is just too high, threatening to make an already costly city among the most expensive in the country.
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Colorado’s proposed pension reform is a missed opportunity 0
- Fiscal, FISCAL - Opinion Editorials, The Hill
- April 24, 2018
In November of 2016, Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association Board (PERA) realized it had a problem. Not only did the state’s public pension system have a current unfunded liability of $50 billion, but overly-optimistic expected returns and overly-pessimistic mortality tables would leave the plan at less than 20 percent funded in a couple of decades
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