Caldara: Remembering a more tolerant Colorado
Jon Caldara
May 10, 2023
Colorado now has a fractured social stratum.
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Fields: Colorado Republicans can move forward from here
Michael Fields
November 23, 2018
Our state deserves to have balance — with strong conservative voices alongside liberal voices.
Colorado Springs $1 land deal with Greccio Housing raises questions
Scott Weiser
March 28, 2018
Colorado Springs — Concerns of favoritism and violation of city codes emerged when the Colorado Springs City Council passed a resolution Tuesday to sell a 1-acre lot of surplus city
CDOT schedules a new series of public outreach sessions on the I-25 Gap
Scott Weiser
January 31, 2018
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is sponsoring a new series of eight public outreach meetings for the I-25 Gap project. The first meeting was held at the El Pomar
Squatters may be sent packing by new law
Scott Weiser
January 11, 2018
State Senators Bob Gardner (R-Dist. 12) and Owen Hill (R-Dist. 10), and State Representatives Larry Liston (R-Dist. 16) and Dave Williams (R-Dist.15) all of El Paso County, have submitted a bill to protect homeowners against squatters.
El Paso County facilitates The Sands annexation to Colorado Springs
Scott Weiser
December 29, 2017
El Paso County Commissioners grant petition to remove land from the Cherokee Municipal District pending annexation to Colorado Springs.
Xcel’s Colorado Energy Plan creates uncertainty for Pueblo’s economic future
Scott Weiser
December 9, 2017
The Colorado PUC heard testimony from Pueblo community members regarding Xcel Energy’s plan to shut down two coal-fired generating units at the Comanche power plant southeast of Pueblo.
With climate crusade on the rocks, Steyer to spend millions in Colorado
Complete Colorado
April 28, 2016
The California billionaire’s brand of environmental politics is so extreme, it makes other environmentalists nervous.
Lomax: Desperate tactics discredit EPA’s bad-air chorus
Complete Colorado
March 31, 2016
Environmental activists are about to launch their annual scare campaign about air quality. It’s a yearly ritual aimed at boosting the federal EPA’s authority over states and businesses big and small.
Thompson school board shoots down union contract proposal
Sherrie Peif
May 7, 2015
At issue for Kerrigan, Carlson, and Rice was the belief that the district’s negotiating team had not followed the direction the board had set. Based on consensus guidance given at the April 1 meeting, a majority of the board members wanted to move ahead with negotiation on moving many items currently in the contract into a handbook, piloting a pay-for-performance model in 2016-17, and looking into having teachers share a part of the rising costs of retirement and insurance benefits.
Thompson conservative majority needs police escorts out of meeting
Sherrie Peif
April 27, 2015
“It was not more aggressive at this meeting,” Board Vice President Bryce Carlson said. “But just given the nature of where we are in negotiations, tensions are high. This was the first time I was escorted. I certainly would hope that kind of thing is not necessary.”
School districts across state finding ways to skirt the intent of Proposition 104
Sherrie Peif
April 8, 2015
Steve Zansberg, attorney and president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, says the law is ambiguous and subject to an interpretation that prohibits these types of meetings.
“Prop 104 defines a local public body as any group that meets with representatives of the teachers union to discuss labor contract, regardless of how small a group attend the meeting,” Zansberg said. “Under (this) interpretation, there can be no meeting of two members of the school board or its administration with union representatives that is not conducted in the open.”
