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Following the Money
in Local Government

  • Nobody Will Say Where the Water Is Going
    by BlaskAttack
    Go Big Blue I am from the land of the blue grass, big blue skies, bluegrass on the ground and on the fiddle. When I moved to Colorado I had heard so many people talk about how beautiful it was. They must have meant outside of Denver. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the …

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  • Water for them, not for us.
    by BlaskAttack
    About half the water in Metro Denver comes from the Colorado River. Not the South Platte. It gets hauled east under the Continental Divide through tunnels, somewhere between 450,000 and 600,000 acre-feet a year, enough to bury this whole metro area five feet deep. Most people don’t think about how water gets to the tap, …

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  • The Quiet Money
    by BlaskAttack
    A $9.7 million donor Colorado voters can never name. The court ruling that just blessed dark money, both parties’ networks, and where to check the receipts.
  • Colorado Housing and Political Money
    by BlaskAttack
    Who profits from Colorado’s housing squeeze? Campaign money, builder lobbying, and the receipts connecting real estate cash to Colorado politics.
  • Discover Beautiful Bow Mar
    by BlaskAttack
    Bow Mar kept racist covenant language on the books until 1991. How a tiny HOA-town flexes political power far beyond its borders — receipts included.