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Property Transaction Complete "Rocky Mountain Center For Innovation & Technology" new name of the former "ACE" Project Loveland City Manager Bill Cahill announced tonight the City of Loveland completed the sale of the former Agilent property on Taft Ave. in Loveland to Cumberland & Western Resources. see story |
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Council Fears Surveillance of Public Meetings Accusations Fly Via Email - Trenary is Angry see story |
Building Without Permits - Part II Council agrees to discuss matter at future meeting after local contractor accused the city manager of whitewashing the matter see story |
Council Divided Over City Assisting Candidate for Public Office |
A majority of Loveland's City Council stayed away from a city sponsored tour of Loveland for Boulder Congressman Jared Polis who hopes to represent Loveland in 2013. see story |
Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez (left) listens to Boulder Congressman Jared Polis (center) along with Loveland Councilman Ralph Trenary (back-right) during a city sponsored tour of Loveland. |
Colorado State Senator Kevin Lundberg Running For Congress Colorado State Senator Kevin Lundberg announced Monday he will be seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Congressman Jared Polis in 2012. Link To Video |
Loveland's Bond Default Two vacant custom homes stand as monuments to the failed Deer Meadows Metro District approved by Loveland's City Council in 2005. At double the average property tax, these homes sit on a failed 500 acre addition to Mariana Butte that defaulted on $2.5 million of public bonds. see story |
Did Loveland Over Pay For Downtown Properties? By the end of 2007, Loveland's emphasis on retail subsidies for McWhinney's Centerra was at a crescendo. Candidates who won election to Loveland's Council in November 2007 promised a new focus on downtown development. Between 2007 and 2010 the City of Loveland purchased over half a dozen properties just as the real estate bubble was bursting. Did the city overpay? see story |
New Larimer GOP Chair Is Target Democrats Planning Media Blitz Only 10 days after Larimer County Republicans voted on January 12, to elect Michael Fassi as their new Chairman, a court decision is causing them headaches. Fassi and his wife, Terri Fassi, were found by a local court to have "significantly inflated" sales figures for the company they sold in late 2010 - the same firm involved in the past financial troubles of the Republican Party before Terri Fassi, then party Treasurer, resigned after mistakenly setting-up a duplicate campaign committee costing the party thousands in fines. see story |
Loveland Fire Safety Rated Below Average Read Story |
Larimer County Republican Party Chairman Michael Fassi |
Thompson Valley EMS Hit Hard By Centerra Metro Districts Refused McWhinney's Incongruous Offer see story |
Loveland's House District 51 Election: "Don't Vote For The Other Guy" Both campaigns are stock piling potentially damaging information about their opponent. A plethora of negative campaigning is likely as a result of two aggressive campaigners competing to represent Loveland in the State Legislature. |
The End Of The ACE Project Editorial by LovelandPolitics |
Is Marble The Next Maes? Is Senate District 23 Candidate Vicki Marble the Republicans' Next Dan Maes? read story |
Mirasol Over-Charging Seniors Feds Demand City Payback Rents An estimated plus $250,000 rebate for Mirasol residents was ordered by HUD after the federal housing agency determined Housing Authority City of Loveland (HACOL) overcharged residents violating affordable rent restrictions placed on the project in exchange for using federal funds. see story and documents |
Business Incentives Report Misleading City 'drinking its own bath water' see story |
Contains False Information Loveland City Attorney John Duval sent a letter to HUD appealing a decision to return excess rents "voluntary" the lease agreements show it as part of "gross rent." see story |
Loveland City Attorney John Duval |
Christine Kapperman, Loveland Daily Editor is reported to be leaving the newspaper for a "non-media" position in Boulder, Colorado. see story |
McWhinney Seeks To Limit Public Review of New Developments Promenade Owner Objects Loveland's Planning Commission approved an amendment to the "Millennium GDP" that governs development in Centerra. The amendment seeks to largely exclude any review or approval process for most commercial and industrial developments within Centerra. see story |
McWhinney Seeks To Limit Public Review of New Developments |
McWhinney Seeks To Limit Public Review of New Developments Promenade Owner Objects Loveland's Planning Commission approved an amendment to the "Millennium GDP" that governs development in Centerra. The amendment seeks to largely exclude any review or approval process for most commercial and industrial developments within Centerra. see story |
McWhinney Seeks To Limit Public Review of New Developments Promenade Owner Objects see story |
Free LovelandPolitics Story Archive Headlines - January 2012 to May 2012 |