school board races
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Republican passion, economics, national frustration may have driven ‘no’ votes on parks, roads, school bonds in El Paso County, Colorado Springs
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El Paso County and Colorado Springs voters said “no” on Tuesday’s ballot to funding recently popular issues such as parks, trails and open space, and county roads – results that may have been driven by Republican enthusiasm at the polls, economics and national frustrations. Residents also endorsed a spate of right-leaning school board candidates across…
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Hey, taxpayer: Want to know who’s funding your local school board races?
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A lot of voters may not have a clue how much money is raised and spent in their local school board races. Plenty of those voters also may not know where all that campaign cash comes from in the first place. It isn’t necessarily for lack of interest so much as a lack of knowledge…
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BARTELS: Gov. Hickenlooper signs bill dealing with school board race spending
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A Steamboat Springs school board member frustrated that he couldn’t find out until after an election how much outside groups poured into to elect their favorite board candidates watched Wednesday as Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an accountability bill into law. Roger Good testified on behalf of House Bill 1282 at a Senate committee hearing…
