Legislation and Amendments
This 1992 constitutional amendment limits the rise in annual local and state government expenditures to an amount determined by growth and the rate of inflation.
What is the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Amendment?
Twelve students and one teacher perished at a high school in Jefferson County in one of the most bloody school days in the nation’s history in April 1999.
What is the Columbine Massacre?
Interstate 70 engineering feat that has allowed motorists to bypass Loveland Pass since March 1973.
What is the Eisenhower Tunnel?
First opened at Denver’s Lowry Air Base in 1955, this military institution moved to its permanent location north of Colorado Springs in 1958.
What is the United State Air Force Academy?
A term for the “brown cloud” of air pollution that can dominate the Front Range from Pueblo to Fort Collins on calm days especially during the winter months.
What is "smaze?"
1992 constitutional amendment that forbade cities and towns in Colorado from providing protected status “based on homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation.”
What is Amendment 2?
One of the largest of state disasters, this struck in the fall of 1918 and left nearly 8,000 Coloradans dead.
What is the Spanish Influenza?
Major airport development that opened on the Front Range in 1995 after significant delays related to its automated baggage handling system.
What is DIA?
Meat-packing company that took over from ConAgra and its predecessor Monfort to keep Weld County one of the nation's leading livestock-producing counties.
What is Swift?
Sculpture by Huberto Maestas installed near San Luis in Costilla County to affirm the piety of the faithful.
What is the "Stations of the Cross?"
This 1974 constitutional amendment made it extremely difficult for Denver to add territory to its jurisdiction.
What is the Poundstone Amendment?
Massive flood of the canyon between Estes Park and Loveland on July 31, 1976 that killed at least 145 people.
What is the Big Thompson River flood?
This railroad route under James Peak built at public expense significantly improved the connections between Denver and Salt Lake City in the late 1920s.
What is the Moffat Tunnel?
High technology firm based in Littleton that builds rocket systems such as the Atlas rocket and the Mars landing craft.
What is Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company?
A brand of cigars that was popular in the 1920s that affirmed 100% white Americanism.
What is CYANA?
Constitutional amendment passed in 2000 that mandates background checks on all individuals purchasing firearms in Colorado including those at gun shows.
What is Amendment 22?
Snow and ice played a significant role in the takeoff crash of this flight out of Denver’s Stapleton Airport on November 15, 1987 that killed 28 passengers.
What is Continental Flight 1713?
This CCC and WPA construction project in Jefferson County left a world-famous concert venue as its legacy.
What is the Red Rocks Amphitheater?
James Dobson moved this national evangelical ministry to its present-day headquarters in Colorado Springs in 1991.
What is Focus on the Family?
This derogatory term referred to those who claimed conscientious objection to military service in World War II.
What are "conchies?"
Passed in 1943 in response to successful construction worker strikes in the late 1930s this legislation significantly limited union activities in Colorado.
What is the Labor Peace Act?
This early June 1921 disaster caused $30 million in property damage and left at least 100 people dead in the Pueblo vicinity.
What is the Arkansas River flood?
Water diverted from the Dillon Reservoir has flowed through this waterway into the South Platte River in order to slack the thirst of Denver area residents since the mid-1960s.
What is the Harold Roberts Tunnel?
This federal government agency studies the earth’s atmosphere and has been located just under the Flatirons in Boulder since 1967.
What is the National Center for Atmospheric Research?
The derogatory phrase used by fiscal conservatives and environmentalists alike to describe the Denver boosters' attempt to sell the 1976 Winter Olympics to Colorado taxpayers.
What is the "$100 Million Snow Job?