In Colorado, We Play Double-A Ball

by Jon Caldara | 11:00 am, August 30, 2011

According to this Barron’s magazine report, we’re not California and we’re not Illinois.
Yet.
Barron’s cover story this month is about state credit ratings. As you might imagine, California and Illinois are at the bottom of the list. Moving from the absolute bottom of the barrel on up, you run into some other pretty obvious states: New [...]

A Fiscal Roadmap for Colorado, TV Style

by Jon Caldara | 2:11 pm, December 17, 2010

A Fiscal Roadmap for Colorado, TV Style

by Jon Caldara | 2:11 pm, December 17, 2010

The Citizens’ Budget Storms Public Television!

by Jon Caldara | 11:13 am, December 16, 2010

How do you close a billion dollar state budget gap? Tune in to Devil’s Advocate this Friday as I am joined by Penn Pfiffner, project director of the Independence Institute’s recently released “Citizens’ Budget” project, to lay out the road map to balancing the Colorado state budget and moving towards sustainable state government [...]

How to Slash State Spending? Read the Citizens’ Budget

by Jon Caldara | 1:28 pm, December 3, 2010

It’s no secret Governor-elect John Hickenlooper is set to do battle with a state budget that has been knocking us taxpayers down time and time again. We’re long past a TKO and Hickenlooper just got the tag-in on November 2nd to save our sorry wallets and checkbooks. Question is, does he have the fortitude to [...]

Citizens’ Budget Links

by Jon Caldara | 2:02 pm, November 30, 2010

The report provides an overview of the structure, timing and size of the State budget. We speak to how the problems originated and how things have gone wrong in recent years. The Citizens’ Budget includes legislative, constitutional, and policy recommendations to close the looming state budget gap – without raising taxes – and move Colorado [...]

Let’s Talk About Debt Baby

by Jon Caldara | 3:27 pm, September 10, 2010

Let’s Talk About Debt Baby

by Jon Caldara | 1:44 pm, September 9, 2010

Got a spare $13 trillion to help Uncle Sam pay off the national debt? Check out Devil’s Advocate this week as I am joined by economist Linda Gorman from the Independence Institute and founder of Mothers Against Debt (MAD) Amy Oliver Cooke to discuss the both the federal debt and deficit, and the debt [...]

Defend the Republic Rally Being Held in Denver

by Live Free | 11:42 am, December 9, 2009

The friends of the Colorado Republican candidate for Governor, Dan Maes, have organized the Defend the Republic Rally this Saturday, December 12 at 1-2 pm on the west steps of the Colorado Capitol in Denver.
This rally is being held in light of the recent developments in the race, with Josh Penry dropping our of the [...]

The Old School GOP Way of Business – Are They Learning the Lesson?

by Live Free | 12:14 am, November 23, 2009

I was at the Republican National Committee (RNC) sponsored Say It Out Loud presentation this past Friday in Denver.
There was a good mix of folks there, from the Peoples’ Press Collective, R Block Party, 9/12, as well as more traditional supporters of the GOP.
It’s fair to say many conservatives and independents are angry and the [...]

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