Budget & Economy

The economic stimulus package signed into law Wednesday by President Bush will put more cash in taxpayers' pockets, but it will drain Colorado...


Presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) as well as Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) applaud the arrival of U.S. President George W. Bush to the State of the Union speech at the U.S. Capitol January 28, 2008 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Energy, immigration, home foreclosures and other issues affecting Colorado played important roles in President Bush's final State of the Union...


Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sits in the Ford Explorer America concept as his wife Ann watches at the North American International Auto Show Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, in Detroit. (Photo: Carlos Osorio/AP)

Just hours before a Michigan presidential primary that could reshape the Republican campaign, autos and politics collided Monday as candidates made...


Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks at the Culinary Workers Union Hall Local 226 before heading out to canvass in a neighborhood January 13, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday unveiled an economic stimulus package costing up to $120 billion that his campaign said would put money in the hands...


Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter addresses the state's education system during a news conference in Denver, July 31, 2007. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Gov. Bill Ritter gave his second State of the State speech this morning to a packed chamber of both the Colorado Senate and House of...


Even with an already crowded legislative session looming, a state lawmaker says he wants to take another stab at fixing Colorado's constitutional...


President Bush and his wife, first lady Laura Bush wave, as they walk with Mrs. Bush's mother Jenna Welch, second from left, past Brig. Gen. Margaret H. Woodward, obscured, right, on their way to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Wednesday Dec. 26, 2007, enroute to Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

President Bush, still voicing concern about special project spending by Congress, signed a $555 billion bill Wednesday that funds the Iraq war well...


State spending on public education and general government operations would increase by slightly more than 6 percent next year under a budget proposal...


Eleven million Americans, including as many as four million children, live within a mile of the roughly 1,300 Superfund sites currently on the...


Gov. Dave Freudenthal will recommend that Wyoming spend the largest chunk of its available discretionary cash to help local governments, his office...


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