Colorado voters have just one statewide issue before them tomorrow but voters in cities along the Front Range will be asked to decide several local issues that have created a good deal of controversy.

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In Denver, voters will decide whether businesses should have to provide paid-sick leave for their employees.  That鈥檚 set up a fierce battle between labor groups and business interests. Another hotly contested issue that鈥檚 divided the business community in Boulder is a proposal to sever the city鈥檚 ties with Xcel Energy in favor of creating a municipal electric utility. Xcel has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into fighting the initiatives 2C and 2B. Meanwhile in nearby Longmont, voters will consider a measure that would allow more access to the city鈥檚 broadband system, and in Fort Collins, voters will decide whether to ban medical pot dispensaries.

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Proposition 103 would raise state income and sales taxes to fund K through 12 education for the next five years.  It鈥檚 the only statewide tax measure in the country this November and it鈥檚 being viewed as a barometer for the nation鈥檚 mood on taxes. Business friendly Republicans and anti-tax groups have called the measure a job killer, but Prop 103鈥檚 chief backer, Democratic State Senator Rollie Heath, has also promoted it as an economic issue.

But Heath has struggled to build a coalition of support among some progressive groups and his own party.  Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper has said Coloradans don鈥檛 have an appetite for a tax increase this year.

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