{"id":58705,"date":"2013-07-10T20:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lobby-taps-dolores-manager\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T02:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T02:23:49","slug":"lobby-taps-dolores-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lobby-taps-dolores-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobby taps Dolores manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4402dcb8-9654-450b-a218-7c3cb2010945&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"394\" height=\"484\" alt=\"Mahoney\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mahoney<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The organization focuses on informing leaders about local government issues through education and training, networking, and legislative topics. The CML is a well-known lobby group for Colorado towns and small cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great opportunity to learn more about the legislative process, and how to access technical assistance from the state,\u201d Mahoney said.<\/p>\n<p>CML representatives act as an ombudsman for towns under 8,000 on the Western Slope and Four Corners part of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives smaller towns like Dolores, Rico, Ridgeway, Ophir, Norwood a voice in the legislature,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The training will help Dolores better negotiate through complicated topics such as recreational marijuana laws, budgeting, TABOR issues, marketing, collective bargaining, and grant writing and grant opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt helps small towns like us stay in the loop, and allows us to share our challenges and successes with other communities,\u201d Mahoney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahoneydu1-i-syn The organization focuses on informing leaders about local government issues through education and training, networking, and legislative topics. The CML is a well-known lobby group for Colorado towns and small cities. \u201cIt is a great opportunity to learn more about the legislative process, and how to access technical assistance from the state,\u201d Mahoney said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-58705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58705"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=58705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}