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Coloradans could get up to $2.5 billion in tax refunds
Nebraska has a right to take it, from October to April.
Nevertheless, Nebraska is itching to start.
Nebraska is in talks to option or buy up land around Julesburg and to the west for canal construction, Rein said. Grassed-over scars of Nebraska’s un nished attempt at a Perkins Canal in the late 1800s are visible across northeastern Colo- rado. going to higher earners — as long as the legislature doesn’t change the refund formula this year, as it did in 2022. e forecasts are provided to the Colorado General Assembly to help lawmakers draft the state budget for the next scal year. e data presented in March to the legislature’s powerful Joint Budget Committee, which drafts the budget, is considered the most important each year because it’s used to set spending. e good news for the legislature is that it will have all the money it’s entitled
Colorado takes pains in its o cial response to say it has always honored a 1923 compact with Nebraska on how the South Platte operates, and always will. e letter, with extensive input from the Colorado Attorney General’s O ce, is not meant to be a hard “no,” Rein said.
Every year before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothing Bank provide community members with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert with Change 4 Change, another organization that helps with the food drive. See more on Page 2.
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