How much money should the state keep?

By Quentin Young | editor

By Chase Woodruff

Coloradans will again vote on a long list of statewide ballot measures in 2026 — but unlike in previous years, the state Legislature had hardly anything to do with it. Proposition NN, which asks voters to raise the cap on the amount of tax revenue the state is allowed to keep each year, is the only legislatively referred measure on Colorado’s ballot this year. Democratic majorities in the General Assembly referred it to voters in May.

By Chase Woodruff

Colorado’s first-ever state fair opened in Denver on the afternoon of Sept. 26, 1876, and “every means of transportation in the city was pressed into service” to ferry passengers to the 40-acre fairgrounds on its eastern outskirts, according to the Rocky Mountain News. The central attraction inside the fair’s main exhibition hall, courtesy of Denver’s Bellevue Gardens, was “a circular stand covered with pots and vases of flowers, among which were many rare exotics, exhaling delicate odors and adding materially by their brilliancy of color to the attractiveness of the scene,” said the News. Other booths showed off “every variety of fancy needlework”; oil paintings and engravings; tanned animal hides and furs; luxury furniture and “some excellent articles in the plumbing line”; and a cornucopia of agricultural products.

By Ariana Figueroa

An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge their removal, which was made under an archaic 18th-century wartime law. Arguing on behalf of the class of men who were removed under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union told the three-judge panel that the men, who were accused of being suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, were entitled to hearings to challenge those accusations. But instead, Gelernt said, the men were denied their due process rights and spent four months in a brutal Salvadoran prison.

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