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The 2025 Regular Session Data 0
- March 18, 2025
Below are multiple interactive charts that display data collected from Colorado General Assembly fiscal reports from the 2025 regular legislative session. The state legislature is beyond the midpoint of the 120-day regular session, which started in January and ends in May. The data below presents the FTE/fiscal impact of every proposed legislation introduced in the
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Is Trump Really Cutting the Size of Government?0
- March 18, 2025
Thus far, the Trump cuts have been only a tiny fraction of recent federal employment increases.
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The Constitution and Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban 0
- March 18, 2025
Since 2009, Colorado regulation and government spending have exploded, and every branch of state government seems to have taken on an authoritarian tinge.
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Special privileges for journalists contrary to ‘freedom of press’0
- March 6, 2025
Freedom of the press is as much for ordinary citizens as journalists, so the law should not discriminate against ordinary citizens.
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Defending the Founders’ Interpretation of the Constitution 0
- March 4, 2025
Making up new ways to interpret the Constitution is unfaithful to the document. If the Founders had known people would do that, they would have written it differently.
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Colorado’s spending joyride on a collision course with reality 0
- March 4, 2025
It is well known by now that Colorado’s budget is on an unsustainable path. While there’s considerable disagreement about what is driving the issue and what the solution might be, one thing is for sure: trying to lay blame on the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is just pure deflection. As I have written previously,
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