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Gaylord in Aurora: New developer found to build 1,500-room, $800 million hotel

A new developer will take over the stalled Gaylord hotel project in Aurora, which won an estimated $81.4 million tax rebate from the state last year before hospitality giant Gaylord Entertainment announced it was restructuring -- and that building the 1,500-room hotel and conference center here wasn ... More >>

Ask a Stoner, 4/20 edition: Pot critic William Breathes answers your cannabis queries

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Photos: Tax Day memes offer laughs on one of year's least funny days

Have you done your taxes yet? If not, we'll have to be the bearers of bad news to those who prefer to put off this horrible task until the last minute. It's Tax Day, April 15. Which means the last minute is less than 24 hours away. What to do, other than panic? Procrastinate a little bit more -- j ... More >>

Medical marijuana industry-related bills alive in House and Senate

A Colorado House bill that would create a marijuana responsible-vendor program in the state moved through a second Senate reading Monday without any amendments, paving the way to final approval on a third reading. If passed -- which seems likely at this point -- HB 1061 would allow the state Medica ... More >>

A64 task force recommends 15-25 percent pot taxes, Hick warns of homeless youth increase

The final meeting of the Amendment 64 Task Force began with a warning from co-chair Jack Finlaw: "I'll be happy to be out of here by six." And as the hours dragged on, it appeared he would get his wish -- right down to the minute. The task force used all of its allotted four hours plus one in a mee ... More >>

Fiscal cliff: Why did Democratic Senator Michael Bennet vote against Obama's deal?

On Tuesday, at 12:29 a.m., just as Colorado began celebrating the New Year, Senator Michael Bennet's staff released a statement explaining why, in a break from his Democratic colleagues and the president, he voted against the plan to avert the fiscal cliff. The decision made him one of only eight se ... More >>

Obama in Golden, Colorado: Is the ninth time the charm?

Ninth time's a charm. President Barack Obama was back in Colorado this morning, marking his ninth visit to the state this year and his third campaign stop here in just three weeks. The crowd of thousands flocking to Golden -- and the surrounding traffic jams and street closures -- served as yet an ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 Blue Book changes, legislator criticism don't worry proponent

Yesterday, members of the Legislative Council Committee asked for changes in the Blue Book description of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, suggesting along the way that the initiative is likely to spur lawsuits. Opponents pounced on these assertions and others, but a 64 backer ... More >>

Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland takes ABC challenge, releases tax returns after bashing Romney

Put up or shut up. After a group of Democratic leaders staged a press conference last week to demand that Mitt Romney release more of his tax returns, ABC News asked the group if they would make public their 1040s, too. Several refused to do so -- but not Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland, whose tax posture ... More >>

Mark Udall wind-tax-credit plan: Address Senate every day 'til he gets it

This could get tiring. Senator Mark Udall has announced that he will head to the Senate floor every day to push the same piece of legislation -- the Wind Production Tax Credit -- until Congress responds and passes it. That means speech after speech after speech on the same issue, until, you kno ... More >>

Gaylord hotel in Aurora, bull riding school in Pueblo get tourism incentives

Today was a good day for Aurora tourism -- and not for the same reason as on November 28, 1979, when a mysterious Hollywood stunt man showed up with a plan to build a massive amusement park called Science Fiction Land. Today's good news came courtesy the Colorado Economic Development Commission, whi ... More >>

Gaylord hotel project: Meet the locals in love with it (and one guy against it)

Frank Gray is president of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council in Douglas County. Yet at a public hearing yesterday on six projects vying for big-bucks state tourism incentives, Gray eschewed his county's own project and, like many of the 23 people who testified, spoke in favor of Gaylord E ... More >>

"Start-Up Colorado:" House Democrats announce job creation package

Colorado House Democrats and representatives from CU, CSU and Colorado Technology Association met with the press to introduce "Start-Up Colorado." The package brings together three jobs bills focusing on promoting small business growth.

Douglas Bruce: The long, hard fall of a rogue tax crusader

Douglas Bruce.​The conviction of controversy magnet Douglas Bruce on tax evasion charges has touched off some high-pitched gloating on liberal-leaning political websites, as well as the expected musings on the irony of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights godfather getting busted by the tax man. For th ... More >>

Despite challenge, Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 keeps its name (for now)

Doug Bruce​As we mentioned earlier this week, Colorado Springs conservative Douglas Bruce had petitioned the Colorado Title Board to change the title of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 to include TABOR-related tax language. The hearing on that challenge was yesterday morning, b ... More >>

Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act targeted by Douglas Bruce over prominence of word "TAX"

Brian Vicente.​The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 continues to be a target more than a year before the November 2012 election for which it's aiming. First, rival organization Legalize2012 objected to any association with the terms "legalization" and "similar to alcohol." Now, prop ... More >>

Brenda Stewart, who fronted prostiution ring linked to Michael Hancock, cops a plea

A past Player.​Amid the controversy over a report tying just-elected Denver mayor Michael Hancock to Denver Players, the prostitution ring that brought down Judge Edward Nottingham, much of the attention has focused on previous Players owner and alleged burglary victim Scottie Ewing. But there ... More >>

Today: Tax-day deals for accountants

Courtesy of www.seniorliving.org.​It's tax day, and few people are feeling the heat like the town's overworked CPAs. If a certified accountant remembered to "file" at either Morton's locations for a complimentary three-course steak-and-seafood dinner for two, the winners can claim their prize ... More >>

Douglas Bruce, father of TABOR and controversy magnet, indicted for tax evasion

Big pic below.​Douglas Bruce has made no shortage of enemies over the years -- and plenty of them are likely grinning at the sight of his mug shot, released in conjunction with word that he's been indicted for failing to pay taxes he earned in 2005-2007. His alleged method of evasion? Funnelin ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony selling Baltimore-themed car in Denver: Readying for big move? (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​One clue that Carmelo Anthony might actually stay in Denver: He hasn't reduced the price of the house he's selling. But heis lightening his load, by selling a cherry '71 Chevelle on eBay to benefit his charity, just as bride LaLa Vazquez did last year with a pink SUV. Look belo ... More >>

Raped and extorted by a prison gang, Scott Howard was called a "drama queen" by corrections officials

Brenda Stewart, Denver Players/Sugar owner & ex-escort, indicted for tax evasion, racketeering

Large photos below.​This week, Brenda Stewart was indicted on charges related to tax evasion, racketeering, money laundering and more in relation to Denver Players/Sugar, a notorious escort business. A former escort known to her staff as "Katrina Carter" or simply "Carter," Stewart potentiall ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary bans pass in Aurora, Dougco: Fuel for legalization fight?

Brian Vicente.​Update: The Sensible Colorado staff has been hard at work trying to determine if any of the community or county attempts to ban medical marijuana dispensaries were unsuccessful -- and they've found seven bright spots amid the disappointments in places like Aurora and Douglas Cou ... More >>

Amendments 60 & 61, Proposition 101: Colorado Progressive Coalition hits road to battle them

​Twentieth century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was keen on constructing impenetrable monoliths of text about nothingness. But his notion that the absence of something is just as important to an experience as the presence of something ties directly into this year's Colorado ballot init ... More >>

Tom Tancredo gives KHOW's Peter Boyles his tax returns, challenges Dan Maes to do the same

Tom Tancredo.​While other Republicans are starting to cozy up to Dan Maes, there's no love lost between the Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tom Tancredo, now running for governor on the American Constitution ticket. Tancredo, who's on KHOW right now, just gave his tax returns to Peter B ... More >>

Joseph Scott Carter, kidnapping suspect, was senatorial candidate at war with America

Joseph Scott Carter?​The story of a Boulder County kidnapping over the weekend has gotten considerably stranger since the arrest of Joseph Scott Carter for the crime. During a court appearance yesterday, Carter urged the judge to add "levying war against the United States" to his list of crime ... More >>

Commerce City fight: Editor takes on town over strange deal involving city manager's house

Kathy McIntyre believes she's found some muck -- and she's determined to rake it. The editor of Gateway News, she has devoted considerable resources to an investigation of a housing deal given to Jerry Flannery, city manager for Commerce City. As McIntyre writes in her summary of the story, entitl ... More >>

Denver hits the million-dollar jack pot with 235 medical marijuana dispensaries

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver have five days left to get a license

​Colorado's medical marijuana industry has been compared to the Gold Rush of 150 years ago, but so far, there's been no rush for dispensaries to get legal in Denver. Under Council Bill 34, a dispensary must have a city sales-tax license and also apply for a specific dispensary license by Marc ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary owner sleeps in car and pays $5,000 for the privilege

​Wesley Fazio waited twelve hours -- in a cold car, in his long underwear -- for a shot at making his soon-to-open dispensary legal. Yesterday, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses started accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensary licenses -- which every operational disp ... More >>

Dismantling Denver's "Pot Capital" misnomer

​Forget the Mile High City. Denver's has a new name, according to media reports: "Cannabis Capital USA." The title comes courtesy of the fact that the city's been inundated with sales tax license applications for dispensaries as entrepreneurs try to get in under the wire before Denver instit ... More >>

Feed the Food Bank of the Rockies

Don't write off 2008 yet. You can still do good for others -- and for this year's tax return -- by donating to Food Bank of the Rockies. Just a buck will buy four meals for the hungry -- with 96 cents of every dollar going directly to the purchase of food, and just a paltry 4 cen ... More >>

Build wealth! Tax liens on a Tom Martino investment go up for auction

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Give Them a Hand

The city lays all its chips on the table in a risky play for a new hotel.

The Hundred Days' War

How hard is it to find 90,000 citizens who want a tax cut? Ask Douglas Bruce.

Road Warriors

Boon or boondoggle, Bill Owens's highway plan has to get past Douglas Bruce before it goes anywhere.

Stretching the Limits

Limo companies ride out a debate over longer vehicles, safety and lost tax revenues.

The Village People

Arapahoe County's most aggressive town wants to swallow up the area's prime commercial real estate. Can anything stop Greenwood Village?

Calling to Collect

The City of Denver declares war on the state legislature over a telephone bill.

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THE TAXMAN COMETH

A PROMINENT COLORADO LEGISLATOR FINALLY PAYS HER DEBT TO SOCIETY.

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BOULDER WILL VOTE ON A PLAN TO SAVE A VENERABLE THEATER--WITH SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONEY.

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