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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.

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Council Fears Surveillance of
Public Meetings
Accusations Fly Via Email - Trenary is Angry

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Building Without Permits -
Part II
Council agrees to discuss matter at future meeting after local contractor
accused the city manager of whitewashing the matter
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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.
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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.  
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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.  
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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?
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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.
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Loveland Fire Safety Rated
Below Average
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Larimer County Republican
Party Chairman Michael Fassi
Thompson Valley EMS Hit
Hard By Centerra Metro
Districts
Refused McWhinney's Incongruous Offer
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Martin Hutcheson Arrested - Fraud
Local broker also receives public censure
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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?
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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.

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Business Incentives Report Misleading
City 'drinking its own bath water'
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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."
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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.
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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.  
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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.  
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McWhinney Seeks To Limit Public
Review of New Developments
Promenade Owner Objects
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