Ballot initiatives - The Durango Herald

At a glance: 11 measures on Colorado’s 2020 ballot

Tax rates, abortion limits, wolves among issues to be decided by voters

DATE: Sep 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

Durango asks residents to pay higher sales, property taxes

City proposes increase to help maintain streets, build police station

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Denver area doctors seek to ban smartphone sales to preteens

Impact of technology on developing youth a concern

DATE: May 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Rejection of anti-slavery initiative in Colorado disappoints backers

Confusion blamed for failure to strike archaic language from constitution

DATE: Nov 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ballot issues: Raise the Bar vaults to victory; aid-in-dying wins

DENVER – Colorado voters Tuesday night backed establishing a presidential primary and making it more difficult to amend the state constitution, as part of nine wide-ranging issues that were ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

End-of-life ballot issue stirs passion on both sides

Big money and claims of misinformation mark campaigns

DATE: Oct 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment 71 creates odd bedfellows

Effort to toughen constitutional amendment process creates strange coalitions

DATE: Oct 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition 106 would allow aid-in-dying medication in Colorado

Opponents concerned about abuse, coercion from family members

DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition 108 would open state, local primaries to unaffiliated voters

DENVER – Colorado voters are being asked to allow unaffiliated voters to participate in non-presidential primary elections. The statutory Proposition 108 question reads, “Shall th...

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Proposition would create a presidential primary

Ballot item comes after chaotic March caucuses

DATE: Oct 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Amendment 71 would make amending state constitution more difficult

Colorado voters are being asked to make it harder to amend the state constitution. The constitutional Amendment 71 question – known as Raise the Bar – asks, “Shall there be an ame...

DATE: Oct 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News