EDITORIAL: A stronger mayor for Aurora
Aurora's Mike Coffman is among Colorado's most capable mayors. He has an extraordinary skill set developed through decades of public service — in C...
Aurora's Mike Coffman is among Colorado's most capable mayors. He has an extraordinary skill set developed through decades of public service — in Congress, in statewide elected office, in the military. Yet, as the top elected official in Colorado's No. 3 city, Coffman is constrained by the the fact that he only presides over Aurora's city government. He doesn't actually run it the way his counterparts do next door in Denver or down I-25 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. In those cities, a 'strong mayor' serves as city government's CEO, with full authority over the municipal bureaucracy.