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Courtesy Editor’s note: This is the first installment in our Calling All Readers feature, wherein Craig Press readers ask follow-up questions about stories that ran previously. The proposed Craig Urban Renewal Authority would designate two sections of the city as urban renewal areas, creating the potential for property owners in those areas to apply for tax increment financing to help improve their property. Tax increment financing invests the increase in future property tax revenue that is anticipated from the improvement of the property into the improvement itself. Another proposal, the Y...

Cuyler Meade / Craig Press Not long after deciding to allow recreational marijuana sales in town, the city of Craig is dipping its toes into the possibility of taking the next step: Legalizing the product’s use within the establishments that sell it. Currently, Craig — like most municipalities where retail pot is legal — only allows a purchaser of the product to use it in private. It’s not legal for someone to walk over to Rocky Mountain Cannabis, for example, buy some pot and smoke up on the premises. That practice is referred to as “cannabis hospitality,” and it’s something Cr...

With the impending closure of coal mines and power plants in northwest Colorado, Craig officials and river enthusiasts are hoping a long-overlooked natural resource just south of town can help create economic resilience.

With the impending closure of coal mines and power plants in northwest Colorado, Craig officials and river enthusiasts are hoping a long-overlooked natural resource just south of town can help create economic resilience.

Craig Press File After much discussion at other council meetings and even a special workshop, the Craig City Council ultimately voted down a motion to implement a marijuana sales tax during its meeting this week. Additionally, the council agreed to table the discussion indefinitely, meaning that the Museum of Northwest Colorado and the Craig library will have to make do without additional funding from the taxes. An ordinance had been written, intending to implement a 2% sales tax on marijuana sales in the city, which would be in addition to the 2.9% Colorado sales tax and a 15% excise tax. Co...