Mail-in ballots should start hitting mailboxes soon according to today's The Stump from the Rocky Mountain News.

Here's an opinion piece in favor of Amendment 32 from the Rocky Mountain News [October 17, 2003, "Speakout: Amendment 32 would 'fix the roof'"]. From the article, written by Norma Anderson, "Special districts are suffering statewide and not only in the rural regions. Every time the assessment rate drops for residential property, so does the revenue to fire, library, parks and recreation districts, and everywhere else. Think of the special development districts that have bonding for their infrastructure. How do you pay the bonds with 75 percent of the property in the state being residential?"
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