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TRANSPARENCY: This time it’s a problem in Longmont, with the city council. The rule is pretty basic but apparently hard to follow. Public bodies must decide certain basic matters on the record for public…
Land trusts around the state are being squeezed by the recession, bad publicity from over-valued parcels and the perception that conservation easements are scams where landowners use public funds to keep their properties while denying public access to the land.…
Accompanied by a fife-and-drum combo, two opposing groups are gathered in Old Town Fort Collins over the noon hour to try to persuade U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey either to support or oppose health care reform legislation currently before Congress.…
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DUELING RALLIES: Old Town Fort Collins could be plenty crowded during the lunch hour Wednesday. The Obama-oriented Organizing for America reoriented what it’s dubbing the “biggest health care reform rally in Colorado yet”…
Here are some of the items around Colorado that caught our attention today:
Larimer County Republican insiders nibbled away at conventional wisdom regarding Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry’s prospects in the coming gubernatorial primary.
Larimer County Judge Stephen Schapanski this morning agreed with attorneys for three media outlets suing Colorado State University, saying that in light of the evidence so far presented there is sufficient reason to believe the CSU Board violated state open-meeting laws when it selected Board Vice Chairman Joe Blake as the only finalist for the new university chancellor position.
An impassioned U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey invoked the brutal murders of gay college student Matthew Shepard and transgender Greeley woman Angie Zapata in her remarks Wednesday afternoon supporting federal hate-crimes legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, who beat three-term Republican Marilyn Musgrave last fall, was one of only 20 members of her party to vote against the $3.6 trillion federal budget resolution last week.
The Fort Collins Democrat has established a pattern of bucking her party on key issues while at the same time siding with House leadership more often than most of her colleagues, the Fort Collins Coloradoan’s Bob Moore writes in a detailed assessment of Markey’s first three months in office.
A small, working-class caucus in Fort Collins provides a fascinating snapshot of the state’s Republican prospects in November through the eyes of old and new partisans.
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