It’s been a tough few weeks for the Denver Post. In mid-March, the paper’s owners said they were cutting a third of the remaining newsroom staff.

The tax increase would raise $45 million annually to fund services in Denver.

More than twenty years after the U.S. Supreme Court overwhelmingly rejected Colorado’s Amendment 2, which would have banned state and local governments from implementing laws prohibiting discrimination on the bases of sexual orientation, legislators this session tried to resurrect similar language in the so-called “Live and Let Live Act.”