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Some of the city’s staunchest advocates for affordable housing acknowledged Thursday there are significant challenges to asking voters next year to support a tax for the Yampa Valley Housing Authority. “I don’t believe that the community, in its heart of hearts, believes that there’s a need,” Bud Romberg said.

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If a ballroom at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort were the U.S. Senate floor, America would have health care reform by now. Local Democrats and Re­­publicans found widespread agreement on numerous ideas Wed­nesday evening during a three-hour event about ballot reform and public policy hosted by Colorado’s Future. The statewide group is working to change how Colorado amends its laws and constitution and ”” coincidentally ”” hopes to place an initiative to tighten the ballot process on the Colorado ballot next fall.