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A Colorado citizens have launched a new property tax revolt not unlike that launched by Proposition 13 in California during the 1970s. Double digit inflation rates resulted in increased home values accompanied by sharp increase in assessed values and property taxes.

Across the nation, government and business leaders are engaged in an ongoing effort to stimulate economic recovery and growth. This should result in bringing prices down and thereby increasing the affordability of the costs of living and doing business. While the current annual inflation rate for the 12 months ending in November 2025 is down to 2.74% -- down from 3.0% in September, it is still above the 2 percent target inflation rate set by the Federal Reserve. [...]

A new property tax revolt is sweeping the country, not unlike the first property tax revolt launched by Proposition 13 in California in 1978. Many homeowners have seen their property taxes skyrocket in recent years. Homeowners are challenging inflationary increases in their property taxes both through their state legislatures and at the ballot box. In some states citizens are demanding not just reform but rather elimination of property taxes. Other proposed reforms address th

Texas citizens have launched a new property tax revolt not unlike that launched by Prop 13 in California in the 1970s. Governor Abbot recently called a special session of the Texas legislature to enact property tax reforms. This year Texas citizens have used the initiative process to propose seventeen new amendments to the constitution, some of which are designed to provide tax relief.

On August 4th, 2025, Russia announced that it would no longer honor the terms of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Russia’s decision to withdraw from the Treaty marks the end of Reagan era diplomacy. The Treaty was an arms control agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, negotiated by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. It was approved and ratified by the Senate in 1988, as required by the Constitution.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. When citizens use the petition process, they are exercising the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment. The Founders viewed freedom of speech as essential to hold the government accountable. George Washington expressed this sentiment “If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments… the freedom of speech may be taken aw