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PERRY: If Santa Syndrome doesn’t explain city council’s reality disconnect, click thrice for more
Let’s start easy.Who believes that Santa drops into your house once a year to leave off presents, which were often made in China before Donald Trump took back the White House? Well, that’s a good start. So, how many of you non-believers set out cookies and milk on Christmas Eve? Yup. I think what’s happened […]
Aurora repeals tough-on-crime jail laws to comply with state Supreme Court ruling
AURORA | Aurora lawmakers agreed Monday to repeal “tough on crime” ordinances that accumulated over the past few years after the state’s highest court ruled them illegal. The measure, approved unanimously, repeals or modifies dozens of minimum jail sentences for petty and misdemeanor crimes mandating jail time for crimes like shoplifting, car parts theft, vagrancy […]
Aurora lawmakers advance rules on data center water use and locations near neighborhoods
AURORA | Aurora lawmakers moved forward some proposed data center regulations and plan to bring forward even more, including a residential buffer requirement. At Monday’s study session, city lawmakers unanimously supported advancing two regulations, which address data center water usage and zoning, to future council meetings for a vote. One proposed regulation would ban evaporative […]
PERRY: Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman signals a city moving to a higher state
What a difference a year makes in Aurora. This time last May, a small-and-mostly-gone-now part of the Aurora City Council was clappy-happy that Donald Trump was doing exactly what he promised he’d do if elected. He was rounding up thousands of brown immigrants and opening the throttle on local bogus claims that rogue Venezuelan death […]