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Colorado voters set to decide school board and city council races, contentious ballot measures
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Voters across Colorado finish casting ballots at 7 p.m. tonight, deciding city council and school board races as well as local ballot issues ranging from funding for affordable housing and limits on oil and gas drilling to road improvements and municipal high-speed internet. For the first time in eight years, though, there isn’t a statewide…
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Municipal elections across Colorado include questions on taxes, bonds, housing and marijuana
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Voters in more than 80 municipalities across Colorado are electing members to city councils and town boards, as well as deciding a range of ballot measures covering everything from tax and bond questions to pot sales and high-speed internet, according to data compiled by the Colorado Municipal League. For the first time since 2009, there…
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Big gun Bill Owens — the former guv — opens fire on Broomfield ballot issue
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You know the war over Broomfield’s anti-fracking proposal – or any pending ballot issue, for that matter – is heating up when a former governor steps into the fray. Republican Bill Owens, who served as Colorado’s chief exec until 2007, took to the airwaves and digital media this week with a video denouncing Question 301…
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Broomfield as ‘petri dish’? Group of locals forms to fight ballot measure on drilling
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The perennial face-off over fracking is of course a four-way fight: While the oil and gas industry has been duking it out with activists opposed to drilling, the state of Colorado has been going toe-to-toe with local governments over who has the power to regulate drilling in the first place. It is the latter clash…
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Broomfield fracking fight shrinks to context of what councilman said and when he said it
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A political fight over fracking in Broomfield shows little sign of a final bell. Colorado Politics told you last week how resident Camille Cave called out Councilman Kevin Kreeger at a recent council meeting. She said Kreeger had a “bromance” with Andrew O’Connor, the anti-drilling activist who justified a threat of violence against oil and…
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Broomfield city attorney throws cold water on charter amendment to curb oil and gas
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Colorado Politics told you this month that some Broomfield residents want more public health and safety requirements for permitting oil and gas wells written into the city charter. They’re out collecting the 2,500 signatures from the town’s roughly 48,000 registered voters to get the issue on the November ballot. The language mirrors that of…
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YESTERYEAR: Youth government mimics real life, politicos undergo reapportionment drama, Hick faces Denver election woes
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … When the cat’s away … While Colorado legislators were recessed, in their place, the Annual Youth in Government Program took over the House, Senate, judiciary and governor’s seats to get a hands on lesson in government affairs. Entering its 48th year, the youth program – sponsored…
