Boulder-Springs (ANS): The Boulder-Springs County Commissioners are having a heyday after firing the county's internal audit staff. There are no more expense audits, no more policy enforcements, and a raging fear within the entire county workforce that any questions related to commissioner's actions will result in dire consequences. We attempted to contact several key county employees, including the county manager, without success. If we got any comment at all it was "no comment"

The Journal is growing increasingly concern that taxpayer dollars and resources are being mis-used, but there is no way to validate at this time. One county commissioner, under conditions of anonymity, did provide us with the following quote.

"All of the crappy sunshine laws in the state of Colorado, and it's counties and cities, are preventing us from getting real work done. All government employees do is piss and moan that they don't have money available for roads, bridges, schools, etc. Screw them. The people who matter in Colorado don't have to worry about that crap. They have private jets and send their kids to private schools. We decided, 'hell with this budget s--t' we're going to get some of what those people have. If the taxpayers don't like it they can kiss our respective a---s."

More on this story as it develops.