jeff roberts
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Call for the question: Aurora City Council debates meeting rules
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The Aurora City Council Monday began examining and discussing some of its meeting rules that can affect councilmembers’ ability to speak during meetings and in how the public can participate remotely. Mayor Mike Coffman is proposing that the city council repeal a meeting rule named “Call for the question,” which allows council to end debate…
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Colorado redistricting commissioners deliberated outside public view — after promise of transparency
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Colorado’s new independent redistricting commission came with a promise of transparency and public inclusion, but in the days leading up to their adoption of a set of legislative maps, commissioners spent significant time working outside of public meetings, potentially violating the state’s transparency rules. In the final two weeks of the legislative redistricting commission’s work,…
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Taxpayers pay for both sides of Gessler ethics lawsuit, but how much?
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Taxpayers are on the hook for more than half a million dollars from legal costs involving a lawsuit filed by then-Secretary of State Scott Gessler against the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission. But the exact amount will never be known, because the Secretary of State’s office disposed of the first two years of billing records related…
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Insights: James O’Keefe’s ‘journalism’ exposes accountability problem in Colorado
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James O’Keefe fancies himself a guerrilla journalist, but the conservative provocateur was stung by his own fake news again recently when he tried to sting the Washington Post with clumsy spy-kid tactics. The Post easily sniffed out a woman who falsely alleged U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore impregnated her in Alabama when she was a…
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State Freedom of Information Coalition seeks support on Colorado Gives Day
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If you missed #GivingTuesday this week, you can satisfy your passion for open government next Tuesday on Colorado Gives Day by making a tax-deductible donation to the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. The nonprofit does what better-financed, more committed media used to do: fight to make sure government records are truly public and accessible, and…
