Government & Politics  March 12, 2025

Government leaders cope with uncertainty, hope for resilience

BOULDER — Leaders of municipal governments in the Boulder Valley have a multitude of concerns about on-again, off-again actions from the new Trump administration, but are counting on the region’s solid infrastructure of talent and teamwork to pull it through.

“The potential is there,” said Erie mayor Andrew Moore on Tuesday at BizWest’s CEO Roundtable for local government, “but without the federal grants coming in to stoke it and support it, I think all of it is at risk.”

Boulder mayor Aaron Brockett was explicit in detailing how much of that city’s drawing power for capital and startups revolves around federally funded…

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With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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