BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER Although candidates have until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 23 to turn in their petitions with at least 20 valid signatures to be a candidate for Greenwood Village City Council, it is already clear as of August 16 that there will be competitive elections in at least three of GV’s four …
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On August 4, Colorado Republican Party chair Kristi Burton Brown told 75 of the party faithful that, “We live at a very pivotal point in time right now in Colorado,” and that, “2022 presents a perfect storm of opportunities for us to take back some control in this state if we don’t give up.” Democrats …
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BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER On July 28, a joint meeting of the Independent Colorado Congressional and Legislative Redistricting Commissions met at Aurora Community College for three hours. Nearly all 24 commissioners were present live or virtually. Commissioner Danny Moore told The Villager that he volunteered for the redistricting commission because he believes it is“one of …
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Submitted by Vickie Hoffman Janet Yoder, president of Heather Gardens Republican Club, greeted an audience of over 100 eager attendees to hear Mayor Mike Coffman speak on his experience living with the homeless for a week. After staying in several shelters and encampments in Aurora and Denver, he concluded that there are three homeless populations: …
BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER Redistricting is the term that describes the process that occurs everywhere in the United States every ten years after the U.S. Census, which is required by the Constitution of the United States, is completed. It reapportions the Congressional districts in each state and all the state legislative districts, based on the …
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BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER Although people who run for the city council in Aurora do so on a non-partisan basis, as is the case in most cities, there is a partisan quality to the Aurora city council that is hard to miss. Many council members tend to vote in consistent groups that are discernibly from …
BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER Republican state Sen. Jim Smallwood of Douglas County and Rep. Rod Bockenfeld, the sole GOP representative from Arapahoe County in the state House, shared their experiences from the just-completed legislative session with 60 members of the Arapahoe County Republican Breakfast Club at Maggiano’s DTC on July 7. Smallwood, who is minority …
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BY FREDA MIKLINGOVERNMENTAL REPORTER Before serving on the City of Aurora’s Citizens Advisory Budget Committee, Dustin Zvonek ran the Aurora district office for Mayor Mike Coffman when Coffman was a Member of Congress. Before that, he was a policy director at the state legislature for the state senate minority leader. A husband and a father …
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