Colorado Accountability Project

Gaines: You paid about $24.5 million in tax dollars to Denver to address the city’s homelessness

A CORA request came back recently (part of digging into a reader question) that illustrates the importance of paying attention to what your legislature is doing — in particular, paying attention to those seemingly-unimportant, unsexy bills.

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Gaines: The people doing ag in this state need to speak up for each other

Whether you run cattle on the Western Slope of Colorado or you grow forage on the Plains, there are precious few people in Colorado in Production Ag, while there seems a never-ending list of advocates — paid, volunteer, and sometimes from out of state — who are speaking up in support of things that either have the potential to harm producers or that will most assuredly harm them.

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Logan County TABOR issues highlight local concerns: Free State CO talks ranked choice voting

The deadline to get local ballot issues on your local ballot passed recently.  As such I called the Logan County Clerk and Recorder’s Office to see about anything on the ballot in Logan County.

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