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Jon Stavney

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Kudos from one-time Eagle Manager on New Manager Hire

Compliments to the Board of Trustees at the Town of Eagle for navigating at least three very good decisions in 2017.  Praise is deserved as 2018 begins.  It is no secret recent years were tumultuous for Town, even if unnecessary and self-inflicted.  As one active in town leadership in various Read more…

By Jon Stavney, 7 yearsJanuary 16, 2018 ago
Book Reviews

Preparations within Town Hall –Killdozer Part 3

I read of the events of that day in 2004 when I was mayor of a nearby town. It didn’t take long to mentally connect Granby’s destroyed Town Hall with the one in which I found myself in on a weekly basis. I surmised what might have “led” to this Read more…

By Jon Stavney, 7 years ago
Book Reviews

The Thin Blue Line in Your Town –Killdozer Part 2

The Thin Blue Line is a phrase once used by law enforcement for their role as officers entrusted with maintaining the line separating anarchy from order.  It was the title of a 1988 movie on those themes.   Local elected officials managing public hearings don’t often consider their actions in similar Read more…

By Jon Stavney, 7 yearsJanuary 15, 2018 ago
Book Reviews

A Book Review of Patrick Browers’ Killdozer

No one was killed on June 4, 2004, in Granby, Colorado during an attack in which significant swaths of Town were destroyed utterly by a pre-meditated act.  Had it been a foreign terrorist act, it may have started a war. The motives of the business owner who operated the dozer Read more…

By Jon Stavney, 7 yearsJanuary 15, 2018 ago

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