On the morning of Aug. 1, the founders of John Adams Academy (JAA) cut a gold ribbon outside their new school in Sterling Ranch and raised a flag on a 50-foot pole. One speaker after another called the building finished. Board vice chair Kim Gilmartin thanked the crowd for “standing here inside this completed school,” and Kurt Connolly, the developer’s representative, said the school had gone up “in under 12 months.”
In a rare display of bipartisanship, advocacy groups from across the political spectrum joined together to call on Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) to convene a special session of the state Legislature to negotiate the end of a pair of tax-cutting ballot initiatives that would gut the state’s budget so severely that even most conservative groups are opposed to them. Club 20? Not a bunch of libs. Neither are the Colorado Contractors Association, or NAIOP Colorado, which is the state chapter of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
