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SLOAN | A federal tax cut begets — at last — a local utility rate cut
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120 days may seem interminable, at times, to those caught up in the day-to-day grind of the Colorado legislative session, but a great deal happens in those mere four months and enough is packed into that short time to allow some pretty important items to slip past the tripwires of the fourth estate more or…
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SLOAN | A showdown over growth in Erie
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A municipal election in Erie would not generate much interest outside the town limits, were it not for the fact that everything that happens politically in Erie in the last couple of years seems to stir excitement. The reason, of course, it that the little municipality finds itself, by geographic accident, on the front lines…
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What to do with a (mostly) empty councilman’s seat? Run for it
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Castle Rock Town Council member Brett Ford tells Complete Colorado’s Sherrie Peif that if his attendance lags at regular council meetings – he’s shown up only 62 percent of the time since 2014 and has attended barely over a third of meetings this year – it’s because his day job gets in the way. Yet,…
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About that new mayor’s post approved by voters in Castle Rock …
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It had seemed so simple. “Do you want to directly elect your mayor?” Castle Rock voters were more or less asked in the Nov. 7 election. Overwhelmingly, they said yes. All that was left was for the city council – of which current Mayor Jennifer Green is just another member chosen by council colleagues to wield the…
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Risks remain as more Colorado communities ponder their own broadband service
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Earlier this week Complete Colorado’s Sherrie Peif looked at the latest Colorado municipality to consider going into the broadband business in order to give residents an alternative to the big providers. The idea of municipally owned broadband has a distinct appeal for a lot of households and businesses – they’re lured by hopes of lower…
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Ken Buck goes hyper-local
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As readers no doubt are tired of being reminded, all politics is local. And whether or not the late, legendary U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill actually was the first to invoke that phrase, he surely would be proud of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Ken Buck for embracing it this week. To wit, Buck’s…
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Colorado Municipal League untangles special session-driving tax issue
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As often is the case, the Colorado Municipal League is the go-to source to explain complicated issues that we untrained reporters struggle to fully grasp. That’s the case with the tax bugaboo that has Gov. John Hickenlooper working on plans to call lawmakers back to Denver for a special session next month. The mistake was…
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Politics of public education is percolating again in Douglas County
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Upscale and conservative Douglas County’s public schools have set the pace for education reform in recent years, developing a homegrown school-voucher program (stalled by an ongoing court challenge) and ending collective bargaining with the local teachers union. Reform of course is in the eye of the beholder, and the changes haven’t sat well with a…
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Disgruntled Colorado counties are blazing their own trail
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Complete Colorado’s Sherrie Peif shed light last week on an effort by some dissenting, left-leaning counties – led (of course!) by Boulder County – to band together and chart a new course in representing their interests before the General Assembly and beyond. Colorado’s 64 counties long have relied on powerhouse lobby Colorado Counties Incorporated to…
