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Survey: Given a chance, DougCo voters may well have opted for more transportation funding
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Not long after a Douglas County commissioner was rebuffed in her bid to let county voters reroute some law enforcement funding to transportation, a new survey suggests they would have jumped at the chance if the proposal had gone to the ballot. You’ll recall County Commissioner Lora Thomas proposed a ballot issue last month to reshuffle proceeds from…
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Should yesterday’s jail tax fund today’s transportation needs? DougCo voters won’t get a chance to say
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We put the question a bit differently earlier this week: Can a community spend too much on law enforcement when there are underfunded, competing needs? Perhaps not – at least, for the two Douglas County commissioners who nixed a proposal by the commission’s third member late Wednesday to ask voters to shift some of the…