CAMPAIGN NEWS

This was originally published in the News -Review last spring.  This week, a sobering reality came into focus: Douglas County’s budget is headed in a dangerous direction—and county leadership appears more committed to outdated economic models than to long-term financial sustainability. According to publicly available figures, the General Fund’s ending balance for fiscal year 2024–25 is projected to be around $56.6 million. But if current spending patterns continue, that balan

Our county is operating under a $30 million budget deficit. This makes every contract the Board of Commissioners approves an opportunity to recover lost ground—or to dig the hole deeper. Unfortunately, recent actions show that our commissioners are doing the latter by approving contracts without the proper oversight or data-driven review taxpayers deserve. Oversight is not obstruction—i t’s responsi bility. Yet our commissioners continue to “rubber stamp” contracts with littl

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