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Anti-growth backlash bubbling up in fast-growing Western states
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Colorado’s job growth has a downside. Along the urban corridor where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains, home prices are climbing, luxury apartments are multiplying, and commuters are getting stuck in traffic. Parking spaces on some main streets and popular trailheads are jam-packed. Now some locals, frustrated with the pace of development, are trying to…
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Q&A with Debra Johnson | ‘Public policy is my calling’
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Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson – whose office oversees elections in Colorado’s largest city – will be winding down a lengthy career in public service next spring. She announced last year she will not seek a third term in her post in next spring’s municipal election, but as she looks at retirement, she seems…
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Denver’s pols have a bone to pick with President Trump’s budget
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… But of course, that comes as no surprise. Sure, the depth and breadth of the cuts in federal funding proposed by the White House have sweeping implications for urban centers like the Mile High City. Then again, it’s not like Denver’s Democratically inclined political establishment has had many kind words for The Republican Donald since his unexpected elevation to the…
