Some voters aren't so concerned about raising taxes in a recession, Gazette finds

Good morning. Here's a look at news reports from around the state on issues of interest to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy for Friday, May 7, 2010. Listing does not imply endorsement of the content.

FISCAL POLICY
Denver Post editorial: Worker pay bill should be killed
In the final days of the legislative session, Democrats should not rush through an overhaul of the way Colorado pays its state workers. However well-intentioned, House Bill 1409 is unworkable and potentially dangerous to future state budgets.

Colorado Springs Gazette commentary: What recession? Tax hike passes easily
Concerned more about future property values than the recession, one of the more conservative enclaves in El Paso County approved a substantial tax increase Tuesday.

Loveland Reporter-Herald: Larimer County property tax revenues to fall
Larimer County budget manager Bob Keister told the Larimer County commissioners Thursday morning that he expects to see a decrease of 6 percent to 8 percent in property tax revenues in 2012.


ECONOMY
Aurora Sentinel: AEDC bringing jobs and has biggest challenge ahead
According to the group’s figures, it helped create or retain 2,183 primary jobs in 2009 and 654 so far in 2010. But the coming months and years will likely present the organization with one of its biggest challenges yet: Helping Aurora attract a major company to fill brand new high-end office space at the proposed Horizon Uptown development in northeast Aurora. And, AEDC is trying to do that at a time when the market is flooded with vacant office space and the economy continues to flounder.

Vail Daily: Vail Daily Editor Don Rogers: Signs that economic storm will pass
It is the worst of times. It's the, well, never mind, of times. But there also are plenty of signs that the recession will loosen its grip on the Vail Valley, in time.