Wade Buchanan

By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post

As lawmakers struggle to balance the state budget, a wide spectrum of civic groups are quietly meeting to try to find long-term fiscal solutions - which could include ballot measures in 2011 that reform TABOR and the citizen-initiative process.

By Laura Chapin
Posted on Huffington Post/Denver

If you're a parent whose post-college graduate child has returned to sleeping at your home, you're not alone. And if you're a recent college graduate who has been out there beating the employment bushes and finding them beating you right back, you are also not alone.

By Tim Hoover
The Denver Post

A trio of initiative petitions being circulated in Colorado would slash at least $1 billion annually in state taxes, roll back property taxes statewide and dramatically limit government's ability to construct new buildings.

The three initiatives, besides having similar themes of limiting government, also share what appear to be common connections to former state Rep. Doug las Bruce, R-Colorado Springs, the father of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in the state constitution.

By Wayne Heilman
The Gazette
Sept. 17, 2009

Colorado has done little to pave the way for an economic recovery, leaders of two Denver-area think tanks agreed Wednesday at an economic forum in Colorado Springs that delved more into politics than economics.

Peter Marcus
Denver Daily News Staff Writer

Gov. Bill Ritter said last Thursday that he is working with groups outside the Capitol to craft a 2011 ballot initiative that would eliminate aspects of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights.

Speaking to members of the Colorado Alliance for Retired Americans -- an arm of the AFL-CIO union -- Ritter explained how Colorado's constitution makes it difficult for lawmakers to prevent severe budget cuts to departments such as human services and public safety.

Emailed to supporters July 20, 2009

Commentary in Post
says declining revenues
will harm Colorado

On Sunday, The Denver Post published a commentary by Wade Buchanan, Chris Watney of the Colorado Children's Campaign and Carol Hedges of the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute. We wanted to share it, in case you missed it.

Colorado's budget: Untie state's hands

By Wade Buchanan, Chris Watney and Carol Hedges

The Denver Post
Feb. 3, 2009

By Tim Hoover

Amid the hand-wringing over cuts to vital programs this year, a small group of lawmakers has been quietly mulling over an effort to undo one of the key constraints on the state budget.

And they have found new hope in a legal opinion that says their target, known as the Arves-choug-Bird limit, is not protected by the state constitution.

By Russell Haythorn
7NEWS Reporter

DENVER – The head of the Colorado Legislature's Joint Budget Committee warned on Thursday that brutal budget cuts, new fees and higher taxes are on the table when state lawmakers consider ways to fix the state budget.

ByTodd Engdahl
Education News Colorado

After spending a day and a half trying to absorb brain-numbing financial presentations, printed reports and Power Point slides, it was only fair that members of the state Fiscal Stability Commission got a little entertainment Thursday afternoon.

Wade Buchanan sent a letter to Rick Reiter, head of the "No on 58" campaign, urging him to halt "misleading" advertising about Amendment 58. This letter was basis for subsequent press release.