As the closing music swells, Wayne's character looks around at his kin - people who have other people to lean on - and then walks off toward the dusty West Texas horizon, lonesome and alone. "Every decision you make affects individuals and their quality of life, and you're always trying to figure out how to live inside your budget but deliver the services our residents need."īy Brough's retelling, this juncture in her career helped equipped her to tackle Denver's myriad challenges as its next mayor. Brough faces Mike Johnston, a former state senator and nonprofit head, in a runoff election on June 6 to replace outgoing Mayor Michael Hancock.Īt the end of “The Searchers,” one of John Wayne’s most renowned Westerns, a kidnapped girl has been rescued and a family reunited. "It's one thing to build budgets when revenues are growing, and it's another thing to build a budget when you're cutting," Brough said in a recent interview. So, rather than planning for spending in good times, Brough found herself building a budget for Denver in the worst of times.Īnd because around 70% of the city budget is allocated for personnel, she knew each reduction would directly affect someone. Kelly Brough was serving then-Mayor John Hickenlooper as chief of staff when the Great Recession took its toll and local governments' budgets went into a downward spiral. According to the NBC report, the White House said the Alabama abortion ban was not a factor in its ongoing review of the headquarters location decision. When considering a headquarters location, the military generally considers access to health care, housing, room for growth and quality of life. The Gazette previously reported that they argued moving the command would cost more than $1 billion, force many of the command’s personnel and civilian employees to move or quit, and would likely delay the command’s plan to formally begin operations later this year. In his final days in office, former President Donald Trump made the decision to move Space Command from Colorado Springs to Alabama, a decision which Colorado Springs officials and members of the state’s congressional delegation have worked for more than two years to reverse, or at least to reopen the headquarters location process.
Unnamed sources in the report say they believe the White House's potential plan to delay stems from "abortion politics" in Alabama, which recently passed what is considered to be one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States.
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