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Endorsement Process Ignores Women Candidates
With 16 days remaining until the votes are counted in Boulder’s 2011 municipal election, the newspapers and major groups are mostly done with their much-anticipated endorsements of candidates and ballot issues. Each year, the talk among [...]
How the Koch Brothers Are Trying to Influence Your Elected Officials
Just about every week of every year the Boulder city staff produces a Weekly Information Packet (WIP) for each council member. Often containing up to 1,000 pages of reading, the WIP includes the agenda for the upcoming council meeting or study [...]
Our Newspaper and Property Taxes
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken The local newspaper is [...]
Tax Assessment vs. Listing Price
The Camera recently has made an issue of the difference between the County Assessor’s valuation of our house ($835,000) and the listing price ($2.1 million). We bought the home in which we live at 1680 Wilson Court in 1988. The assertion made in [...]
