Tag: Michael Fields
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Confusion swirls as Colorado imposes new retail delivery fee, catching businesses by surprise
Colorado consumers will start noticing a 27-cent fee on receipts for almost everything that gets delivered to them, including restaurant food, after Colorado’s new “retail delivery fee” took effect July 1. The fee must be collected and paid to the state by retailers “on all deliveries by motor vehicle to a location in Colorado with…
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Colorado conservatives target transportation funding in TABOR lawsuit
Colorado’s leading conservatives, along with a free-market group, are challenging last year’s law that created hundreds of millions of dollars in new fees to fund the state’s transportation system and other programs. In a lawsuit this week, Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, and residents Michael Fields and Richard Orman, joined Americans for Prosperity in asking Denver…
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ELECTION 2020 | The winners and losers of the season that never ends
As the counting wraps up and decisions become decree, Colorado voters turned out in record numbers to make their choices known on Tuesday. The Colorado Politics staff offers their takes on who came out on top in the “most important election in our lifetimes” — this year. Winners Winner, Kent Thiry: The retired Davita CEO turned philanthropist and…
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Q&A w/Michael Fields | A new voice to keep conservatives on message
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This fall’s coming cage fight between Colorado’s left and right will include at least one contender who’s battle-tested, agile and streetwise — at the tender age of 31. Michael Fields has emerged in no time as a leading man for conservative causes and a tormentor…
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Q&A: AFP’s Michael Fields on funding transportation and enraging Capitol dealmakers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State lawmakers have made boosting transportation funding a top priority this year. Negotiations have been underway for months and they are ongoing. Democrats and Republicans involved in the talks seem as committed to making a deal happen as they are anxious about keeping all the…