Carol Hedges

The Bell Policy Center and the Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. The brief explains how TABOR works and some of the effects it has had in Colorado since voters approved it in 1992.

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Contact: Wade Buchanan
The Bell Policy Center
303-297-0456, ext. 221

Carol Hedges
Colorado Fiscal Institute
720-379-3019, ext. 221

Bell Policy Center, Colorado Fiscal Institute file amicus
in case challenging Taxpayer's Bill of Rights

First coined by Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz in 1953 to describe a scoreless tie between Navy and Duke who said "a tie is like kissing your sister," we've commandeered the term for our second category of accolades in the Peak's first annual legislative awards.

This distinction goes out to a few designees who neither won nor lost, sometimes in infuriatingly frustrating ways, over the last four month stretch.

Sister-Kissers:

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