Toby Damisch

[CBSColorado @CBSNewsColorado]

Colorado taxpayers could lose up to $37.5 billion in TABOR refunds under proposed ballot measure https://t.co/Ml95mmSoRD

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@jimcramer Like throwing a quarter in a fountain for these dudes.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

Fix the construction defect law.

[Common Sense Institute Colorado @CSInstituteCO]

Colorado’s condo construction never recovered after 2008.

Front Range production has fallen to historic lows, leaving Colorado short nearly 80,000 condo units that would exist today if building had kept pace with early-2000s population growth.

Fewer condos means fewer attainable homeownership options and more pressure on affordability across the state. Read CSI's full report to learn more: https://t.co/RBtRWv9z7w

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Chicago Approves 19% Hotel Tax To Fund Tourism Push https://t.co/yiuCqhUm2z

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@Smiles150 @DougCOGOP None.

[Common Sense Institute Colorado @CSInstituteCO]

Palantir's exit from Denver will come with a cost, according to CSI's latest analysis.

The company's move to Florida will produce:
💼 An employment loss of 724
📉 A population loss of 544
💸 A GDP loss of $106 million for Colorado

These losses extend beyond jobs and GDP, raising important questions about CO’s competitiveness. Read the full report here: https://t.co/ffpnnzbrbT

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@WallStreetApes It’s a hyper local quasi-sales tax that is collected in specific non-general funds which are usually associated with newer real estate developments and are used to pay off infrastructure related debt. Chicfila has no choice in the matter except to not locate in that development.

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@DefiantLs

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Cow? She? Geezus we’re clueless.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@jasonwhitlock She’s unbearable.

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@CycloneLarry69 Swap Syracuse and Notre Dame what’s wrong with you.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@CycloneLarry69 Yo, you DROPPED Houston?

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@ryan_arnold936 @BarstoolBig12 @BarstoolISU @BarstoolUtes @barstoolttu Makes no damn sense.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@c3trips @_AlexGookin An every other team for that matter.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@FBIDDBongino Ignorance is bliss, innit?

[Michael Fields @MichaelCLFields]

Not only does this violate TABOR, but the polling on it is absolutely brutal for Colorado Democrats. #copolitics #coleg

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - An American Airlines plane at Denver International Airport was rapidly evacuated after one of its wheels caught fire and passengers and crew fled the aircraft via emergency slide.

[Toby Damisch @TobyDamisch]

@channel2kwgn Uh oh.

[Michael Brown @MichaelDBrown]

Colorado....going down the drain. The report card from @DenverGazette

• Economy : Long ranked among the top five states for economic performance, Colorado dropped to the bottom 10 by 2024.

• Income: Personal income growth fell from third in the country to 39th between 2018 and 2024, despite some of the world's highest minimum wage mandates.

• Housing: Colorado ranks among the five least-affordable states for housing.

• Regulation: The state ranks as the sixth-most regulated in the U.S., corresponding with slower business growth and innovation.

• Inflation: Colorado experienced some of the highest inflation rates in the country by 2025, outpacing national averages, with consumer prices 15.4% higher today than in 2021.

• Energy: Beginning with Senate Bill-181 (2019), Colorado has obstructed energy production - a major Colorado export - at an expense of the state's economy and high-wage blue-collar jobs. In all, multiple new regulations since 2018 have Colorado producing less oil and gas in 2025 than in 2019, as the country's production has increased.

• Commercial real estate: Under House Bill 1286 (2021), commercial buildings over 50,000 square feet must meet strict greenhouse gas reduction targets (7% by 2026, 20% by 2030 from 2021 levels). Owners face compliance costs for retrofits or electrification, rendering Colorado less attractive to future businesses while oppressing their legacy counterparts.

• Unemployment: Country's second-highest unemployment rate in March - 4.8% - compared with 2017, when Colorado tied for the country's second-lowest unemployment rate at 2.7%.

• Job growth: Colorado's year-over-year job-growth rate of 0.17% from March 2024-March 2025 compares to the national rate of 1.2% - landing Colorado 43rd in the country for job growth. Colorado's job-growth rate was 2.4% in 2017.

• Crime : Crime rates surged post-2018, with Colorado's average monthly crime rate exceeding 475 per 100,000 residents in 2023, compared to a nationwide rate of 374.4 per 100,000.

• Test scores: Post-pandemic data from 2020-2021 Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) scores showed math performance dropping to only 27.4% meeting expectations (from 32.7% pre-pandemic) and literacy falling to 43% (from 44.5%).

• Achievement gaps: Achievement gaps for minority, poor, and special education students remain stubborn, with post-2020 data showing regression.

• Exodus: Colorado fell from a top 10 state for in-migration to the bottom 10 by 2025.

• Homelessness: The number of people living without homes has increased, with urban areas across the Denver-Boulder-Aurora-Lakewood MSA facing visible crises.

• Drugs: Overdose deaths rose from 17.4 for every 100,000 residents in 2018 to 30.0 for every 100,000 residents in 2023 (latest available data) - a 72.4% increase - corresponding with decriminalization of all illicit drugs. Colorado has the country's second-highest rate of teen fentanyl overdose deaths.

• Public approval: The 2024 Colorado Political Climate Survey shows only 33% rate the economy positively, with partisan divides (52% Democrats versus 16% Republicans), based on data compiled by the University of Colorado-Boulder.

• Birth rates: The crude birth rate, measuring births per 1,000 population, has been in decline in correlation with Colorado's rising crime rate and the state's reduction in various livability factors.

• Fertility Rates: The general fertility rate, measuring births per 1,000 women ages 15-44, has declined. GFR dropped to 50.2 in 2023 from 58.7 in 2010, giving Colorado the country's highest fertility reduction. The total fertility rate, which estimates lifetime births per 100,000 women, was 1.48 in 2020 - sixth lowest in the U.S. and below the replacement level of 2.1.

• Abortion rate: The Colorado Department of Health and Environment reports abortions increased from 8,873 in 2017 to 14,691 in 2023 (latest available) - a 65.5% increase.