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Thursday, April 17, 2003
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2003 Denver Mayoral Election
Community events listed in e-mail from the Don Mares' campaign:
April 19
Colorado Association of Black Journalists Mayoral Debate, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Ford-Warren Branch Library
Forum: Macedonia Baptist Church, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, 3240 Adams St.
Mayoral Forum: ADAPT, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Location TBA
7:51:43 PM 
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2003 Denver Municipal Election - Ballot Issue 1A
Update: 7/7/03 - The Denver Post links are now broken. Bad Denver Post.
Nurses from Denver Health are out on the streets stumping for Ballot Issue 1A according to the Denver Post. Says the Post, "Mayor Wellington Webb proposed the bond issue to help the hospital deal with the increase in the number of patients. The hospital serves 160,000 patients a year, including 50,000 in the emergency department." The Denver Post has endorsed the ballot issue.
5:45:58 AM
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2003 Denver Mayoral Election
Denver's troubled economy and budget crisis is the subject of this article from the Rocky Mountain News. The next mayor will inherit a plethora of problems, "Experts caution that things aren't as bad as they were in mid-1980s - yet. But they see plenty of similarities to that period two decades ago when Denver's economy went bust, along with the oil and gas industry on which it had been dependent." I wish they'd point out that the city has a highly trained, dedicated, work force, ready to help the new administration deal with the problems. No candidate is talking in a positive manner about city workers. We're used to being beat up. The Rocky has a related article about the mayoral candidate's views on the economy.
The Denver Post has an article on Penfield Tate's economic plan. From the Post article, "Tate proposes 'intense coordination' among city government agencies to help place people in jobs, as well as increased city collaboration with the nonprofit sector to provide family support services and employment opportunities. A special liaison within the mayor's office would oversee the agencies' efforts." Hmmm ... how does he intend to empower the special liason? Tate's obviously never sat on a city-wide committee trying to get coordination across agencies. It might work if, as mayor, he outlined clear strategic goals. That's something that's been missing.
5:32:14 AM
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2003 Denver City Council Election - At-Large
The Rocky Mountain News is running an article about partisan politics in the race for the two At-large council seats. From the article, "Two of the seven at-large City Council candidates are Republicans, but you'd never know that from GOP literature."
5:20:13 AM
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2003 Denver Municipal Election
Here's the link to today's The Stump from the Rocky Mountain News.
Patricia Calhoun is bashing the city again in her column this week in Westword. Not being a fan of city employees or Career Service gives her ample material to expound upon. I really like her style, "Eight years ago, just a term into Wellington Webb's reign, the city commissioned a big, fat report pointing out flaws in the Career Services system. But the economy was big, fat and happy then. Thriving was no challenge at all, and so the report languished. No one wanted to remember that Denver had enjoyed a big, fat, happy economy right before Federico Peña was elected mayor, until all the oil money evaporated seemingly overnight. And today, no one wants to remember how long it took the city to climb out of that slump. No one wants to remember that it took the better part of a decade, as well as a new convention center and a $5 billion airport project." She goes on to write about Jim Yearby's troubles at Career Service and bashes Rika Meade, the city's Change Manager (again), without mentioning her by name.
5:10:38 AM
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