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Budget Votes Prove Unsuccessful Throughout Colorado

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:35 PM ET

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The Denver Post:

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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11:43 AM on 11/07/2009
Can't the left see where things are heading next year? This was a local statement on a national anger.
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