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Tag: San Miguel County

Telluride Voters Weigh New Lift Ticket Tax to Fund ‘Free’ Gondola
Complete Colorado, Approved, Local

Telluride Voters Weigh New Lift Ticket Tax to Fund ‘Free’ Gondola

By: Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado SAN MIGUEL COUNTY—Voters in Telluride are deciding several tax and debt related measures on the November ballot, including a lift ticket excise tax to fund gondola transit, a debt package to subsidize housing, and a hotly debated citizen-initiated charter amendment mandating voter approval for big-ticket town projects. Telluride is a ski town of around 2,600 year-round residents in San Miguel County, located in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. A lofty lift ticket tax If approved by voters, Ballot Issue 2A slaps a 5% excise tax on Telluride Ski & Golf Resort lift ticket purchases. The revenue will go to improvements, maintenance, and rebuilding of the town’s year-round public gondola system by pledging the reven...
A Seat at the Table, Not Just a Chair in the Room
American Policy, Approved, Commentary, State

A Seat at the Table, Not Just a Chair in the Room

By Aimee Tooker | Commentary, American Policy Center Coordination is the key to harmonizing land management plans and the strategies of the communities that live and work on federal public lands From the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado the Dolores River flows through Montezuma, Dolores, San Miguel, Montrose and Mesa counties until the state line with Utah.  National and local environmental and rewilding advocates had pushed for almost 50 years for a Wild and Scenic designation on the Dolores River.  It never went through because over the course of the years it was decided by the generational locals, municipalities and tax districts that that was not the correct way to manage the river. The talk of Wild and Scenic designation (most restrictive designation for a river) cau...
ExxonMobil and Suncor to U.S. Supreme Court: Stop Boulder and San Miguel Co. climate change lawsuit
Denver Business Journal, Approved, Local

ExxonMobil and Suncor to U.S. Supreme Court: Stop Boulder and San Miguel Co. climate change lawsuit

By Jackson Guilfoil | Denver Business Journal Story Highlights • ExxonMobil and Suncor petition Supreme Court to dismiss climate lawsuit. • Colorado Supreme Court allowed lawsuit to proceed in state court. • At issue is whether climate change impacts should be federal or state matter. Two oil and gas titans are again asking the U.S. Supreme Court t...

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