October 25, 2011

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "DA asks for approval of reduced budget from Pitkin County"

"The percentage of contribution to the DA from each county is determined by state law, and is based on population rather than caseload. This has been an exasperating reality for the commissioners of Pitkin County, which represents 21 percent of the population of the district but just 11 percent of the prosecuted crimes.

In last year’s budget meeting with Beeson, Commissioner Michael Owsley called the arrangement “patently unfair.”

Garfield County carries 70 percent of district population, and 74 percent of felony cases and 80 percent of misdemeanor cases. Rio Blanco carried just 8 percent of the population but 12 percent of the DA’s caseload...."
(Andrew Travers)

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SandBox Comments: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Tipton opens talks on Thompson Divide drilling"

Congressman Scott Tipton (R-Colorado)  doesn't do a  lot of  talking.

He's a listening kind of guy.  Prefers to take what he hears, return to Washington and create the best balance for  all sides.

He must be doing a good job because the sleaze attacks aiming at everything from all kinds of industries and their donors (not just oil and gas) donating to his campaign within all guidelines and regulations (to) attacks on his family have begun.

Thank you goes out to Congressman Scott Tipton for a job well done.

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"Truth goes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Then it is violently opposed.  Finally, it is seen as self-evident."