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Budget Votes Prove Unsuccessful Throughout Colorado

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First Posted: 11- 5-09 10:12 AM   |   Updated: 11- 5-09 12:50 PM

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The Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts will continue to operate in aging, asbestos-filled buildings. Aurora will close four of its seven libraries.

And a Boulder County open-space program was denied money for the first time in two decades.

Economy-minded voters on Tuesday did more than reject tax hikes and debt questions for some of their community's most dire and most popular causes; they also sent a warning to those planning increases for struggling projects and local agencies in the near future, analysts say.

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The Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts will continue to operate in aging, asbestos-filled buildings. Aurora will close four of its seven libraries. And a Boulder County open-space program wa...
The Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts will continue to operate in aging, asbestos-filled buildings. Aurora will close four of its seven libraries. And a Boulder County open-space program wa...
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Can't the left see where things are heading next year? This was a local statement on a national anger.

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