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| Council Annual Retreat Hints At 2013 Agenda Loveland's City Council will come together outside city hall at the end of this month to commence another annual retreat. Economic development issues like whether "jobs incentives" really work will give residents a rare inside look into council politics during the one day retreat over business development issues. see story see blog commentary on same |
| Changing Council Operating Rules & Procedures Loveland Councilors scoff at proposed rule changes that will give Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez enhanced authority over colleagues' comments during council meetings. see story |
| Two Councilors Rebut LovelandPolitics' Story Two members of Loveland's City Council responded to a recent LovelandPolitics story in email asking to have the record set straight. Read their rebuttals and our response to each |
| Subsidy For ACE Project Back - Under New Name see story |
| Larimer County "Common Enemy" Bringing Loveland & Johnstown Together see story |
| Children Sick From Chloramine In Loveland Public Pool see story |
| Klen Lawsuit Settlement With City: Bittersweet see story and signed settlement agreement |
| Rialto Bridge Project: Underwater see story |
| Massive Private Indoor Shooting Range Planned for I-25/34 see story |
| RH Reporter Abandons Journalism To Become City's "Public Information Officer" see story |
| Council Tells Governor Not To Enforce Gun Control Law All nine members of the Loveland's City Council signed a letter July 2, for Governor Hickenlooper asking he stay any enforcement of HB13-1224 requiring background checks for all gun transfers see story |
| The Cost of Innocence Novel Loveland city fee for drivers with insurance who can't show proof when stopped is being challenged by Loveland attorney after his daughter is charged $15 see story and hear court challenge |
| Fiscal Cliff Solution May Force Steep Loveland Water Rate Increases . see story |
| Loveland Mayor Walks Out On Angry Artist In an effort to regain control of a Loveland City Council meeting Tuesday night, Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez called a recess and walked out while city volunteer and local artist Sheila Carrasco spoke to council beyond the time limit the Mayor was trying to enforce. see story and video clip |
| $537,000 Diverted From Utility Payments Into Economic Development The City of Loveland Department of Water and Power has been supporting the salary of Loveland's Director of Economic Development with no apparent explanation for ten years. see story |
| ArtSpace Project Receives Another $300,000 From City Shaffer: conflict of interest in project? Loveland City Council approved a $300,000 negatively amortized loan for Loveland's ArtSpace project providing much needed cash to begin the low-rent artist apartment project and renovations to Loveland's feed and grain see story |
| City To Settle Klen Suit For $495,000 Plus.... A Valentine for 'Mom' see story |
| Judging Judge Starks Potential Ward 1 Candidate Jeopardizes Support of Friends on Council see story and video |
| Staff Delivers Council A Red Herring |
| Mayor Pro Tem Daryle Klassen: Views On Fracking Loveland Mayor Pro Tem Daryle Klassen has waded into the controversial subject of local comments on our blog read commentary |
| Council Settles vNet Lawsuit For Less see story |
| Special Investigative Report Creative Commission Crash read the story - watch the videos |
| Unlikely Bedfellows Fight Madwire Subsidy Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez launched a secret city investigation by staff into Madwire business practices in response to their request for a $300,000 see story |
| Council Unanimous In Opposition to Magazine Size Limits |
| Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez during January 15, 2013 council meeting |
| Residents Be Refunded $332,220 for Affordable Housing Violations by City & HACOL for imposing illegal fees among other violations see latest story and read letter |
| Larimer County Clerk To Resign see story |
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| Loveland's Fracking Story Archive |
| Council Undecided On Paying Victims of Betters' Affordable Housing Scam Contrary to what was already reported see story |
| Council Rewards Fraud Loveland's Council Votes 5-2 to protect wealthy tax credit investors in Mirasol by putting Loveland taxpayers on the hook to repay 50% of the money Betters scammed from seniors living in the Mirasol senior housing complex. see story |
| Election Night Antics - Council Pulls Last Teeth Out of McWhinney Tax Agreement A compliant and quiet Loveland City Council voted unanimously and without comment to remove the city's leverage from Centerra tax agreements last Tuesday night as the media focused on election returns. The amendment approved by council will divert funds from regional transportation projects like the long promised widening of the Highway 34 overpass over I-25 in the decade old Master Financing Agreement instead into local streets surrounded by McWhinney developments. see story |
| Tree Killer At Large For fifty years the cottonwoods on the southeast shore of Lake Loveland have framed resident views of the lake and mountains beyond as they pass along Eisenhower Blvd. Earlier this week a vandal destroyed the trees by cutting deep rings around the bases to slowly kill them in a technique called "girdling." Lake area residents say they know who did it and want the City of Loveland to arrest the vandal. see story |
| Loveland Housing Authority Director bailed out by city after illegal scheme exposed |
| Capricious Power Loveland's Visual Arts Commission see story |
