State Fair Board appointments cause friction at State Capitol

Colorado’s agricultural center is the State’s Eastern Plains, where whence comes 84 percent of the State’s gross agricultural sales.

The Colorado State Fair is among the biggest events every year that celebrates that agricultural impact.

But you wouldn’t know it to look at the State Fair’s Board of Directors. The only alleged representative of the Eastern Plains lives in Boulder County.

That’s not sitting well with Republican lawmakers at the State Capitol and a fair number of Democratic lawmakers aren’t pleased with it, either.

On the last day of the 2020 legislative session, the Senate, whic...