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GARDENS
She told me of a visit to the city planning o ce to inquire about something. (A visit she made quite frequently.) While there, she saw a drawing on a desk of riverfront land that included hers, she realized.
that are decided by an extremely small margin — when the number of votes separating the leading two candidates is less than 0.5% of the number of votes cast for the leading candidate. So, for instance: If Ronald McDonald had 1,000 votes and the Burger King had 999 votes, the one-vote di erence would be 0.1% of McDonald’s votes, triggering a recount.
For races where the margin between candidates is larger, a recount can be requested by a campaign and is conducted if they pay for the work.
lled with houses and apartments.
Griswold wanted to prevent those so-called permissive recounts by candidates who lose by more than 2 percentage points to prevent election workers across the state from having to duplicate their work in contests with a clear outcome. In 2022, for instance, then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters paid more than $100,000 for a recount in her GOP primary loss in the secretary of state’s race after alleging fraud and malfeasance but providing no evidence. There was no shift in Peters’ 14-percentage- point loss after the votes in each of Colorado’s 64 counties were tallied for a second time.
But Fenberg, who lives in Boulder, worried that limiting permissive recounts would decrease con dence in Colorado’s elections.
“I think we want to increase con dence in our elections and not remove options for people,” Fenberg told reporters Tuesday. “Especially if someone is an election denier, I don’t want to do something that
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I can remember Evelyn telling me a few days later that she had driven home and immediately called her lawyer and set up a foundation that day, which would protect the Hudson acreage as open land. Her thinking quickly progressed to creating a place of beauty that people of all ages could enjoy and appreciate — and perhaps learn a bit about how to grow beautiful plants and teach others about that beauty. She called a few close friends and her beloved nephew, Don Had eld, and soon was involved in setting up the rst Hudson Gardens Board of Directors, which met in her living room monthly — and at times, more often. Local landscape architect Doug Rockne was hired to design Hudson Gardens, with input from British horticulturalist Andrew Pierce. Board members and sta were generous with time and expertise at public gardens visited across the U.S. and in Canada. From Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia to Buchart Gardens in Vancouver, Canada.
Planners’ drawings showed that land
Explore the Titanic, as told by the movies ere are many great debates centered on movies: should Ilsa have gone with Rick at the end of “Casablanca?” Was the latter half of “Inception” a dream? Dude, where’s my car? But one of the great discussions for a certain generation is whether or not the door at the end of “Titanic” could safely hold both Jack and Rose while they waited on rescue.
As part of the Molly Brown House Museum’s, 1340 Pennsylvania St. in Denver, annual recognition of the anniversary of Titanic’s sinking, it is hosting Room for Two: Titanic Story in Film at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. e event will feature an “irreverent” exploration of the vessel’s story in lm and include moviethemed snacks and cocktails. Get the details at www.mollybrown.org.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Wiz Khalifa and Joey Bada$$ at Red Rocks
I’d be pretty pressed to think of a more tting kick o to the warm seasons in Colorado than Wiz Khalifa and Joey Bada$$ co-headlining Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 6:45 p.m. April 22. e rappers will be joined by a slew of genre stalwarts, including Action
Bronson, Berner, Marlon Craft, Chevy Woods and Little Stranger, creating the perfect lineup for a spring Saturday night. You can sample all kinds of approaches to rap by attending but they all share a hazy, feel-good vibe.
Get tickets at www.axs.com.
Plans were drawn and redrawn and plant lists were developed and landscapers hired. Soon, a lovely garden was open for business ... I feel certain, Evelyn is somewhere, smiling ... FROM
Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.