reform roundtable

By Shepard Nevel
Guest commentary

The resounding defeat of the fiscally destructive ballot measures, Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, is the latest, but not final, round in a critically important debate about Colorado's future.

Profound budget issues remain, as further cuts in critical services such as health care, education and transportation loom with a projected $1.1 billion state deficit in 2011.

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.