Colorado

SB 276: Colorado’s Venezuelan Gang Protection Act 0
- CONSTITUTION
- May 1, 2025
SB 276 is not only dangerous, it’s constitutionally absurd.
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HJR 1023: Colorado lawmakers’ constitutional ignorance on display 0
- CONSTITUTION, TABOR
- April 9, 2025
When the federal government certified the Colorado Constitution as “republican” in 1876, the Colorado constitution limited the legislature more than TABOR does.
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Colorado Utilities Signal Pain Ahead for Energy Transition 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- March 26, 2025
Some of Colorado’s largest electric utilities are starting to sound the alarm over the pace, expense, and grid reliability implications of meeting the state’s decarbonization mandates. Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, is increasingly worried about its ability to reliably deliver power to ratepayers under current regulatory constraints, according to a recent letter sent
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Colorado’s spending joyride on a collision course with reality 0
- FISCAL
- 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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Fast Facts About Colorado’s Electricity Sector in 2024 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- March 3, 2025
Note: This post represents the latest edition of Independence Institute’s annual analysis of federal electricity data distilled for Colorado. Click here to see past editions. While Colorado’s electric grid has been in flux for years, 2024 may come to be remembered as the turning point for Colorado’s energy future. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
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Colorado Legislature’s Over-Spending Problem Explained 0
- FISCAL
- January 29, 2025
Colorado legislators are discovering first-hand the impossibility of having their cake and eating it too. The Joint Budget Committee continues to meet with dozens of departments to reconcile an approximately $750 million budget shortfall in 2025, with some absurdly claiming that deficit is purely a result of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) at work.
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