Editorial: Duct work plan needed
It was good news in Tuesday’s Chieftain that the federal Environmental Protection Agency is speeding up its testing of houses in the Colorado Smelter Superfund site, more commonly known as Pueblo’s Eilers neighborhood.
Residents in the area have been pushing the EPA to speed up the process so the area can be removed from the national listing of contaminated areas as soon as possible.
At a meeting Tuesday night, the EPA announced that it had tested the yards of a little more than 400 houses and that the agency intends to start cleaning yards this year where it finds higher levels of toxic lead and arsenic.
Boebert challenger Eileen Laubacher joins lawsuit aimed at blocking her from Democratic assembly
Ernest Luning
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Updated 2 hours ago
A Denver District Court judge on Thursday permitted Democratic congressional candidate Eileen Laubacher to join a lawsuit filed by one of her primary opponents seeking to prevent Laubacher from participating in the party’s assembly process in a bid to qualify...
House Ethics Committee to begin hearing on Weinberg complaint
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 9 hours ago
The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday will begin a hearing requested by Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland, tied to an ethics complaint filed against him by Rep. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park. The ethics committee had found probable cause on two issues...
Iran war enters next phase of destroying entire missile supply chain: Hegseth
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 10 hours ago
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran was entering a new phase, as the United States was focusing on destroying Tehran’s defense industrial base. At a Friday Pentagon briefing, Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint...
Jeffco Public Schools found in violation of Title IX
Sage Kelley
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Updated 5 hours ago
Civil rights office: Male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday that the Jeffco Public Schools district violated Title IX by permitting male students to access female bathrooms and compete in...
Colorado plans to slash interim committee work amid budget woes
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 1 hour ago
In a tight-budget year, the work of interim committees — those off-session groups that look at transportation, agriculture, water, healthcare, wildfires, pensions, and anything else lawmakers want to look at — is on the chopping block. And this year, no...
Xcel Energy: Power shutoff ‘likely’ Saturday in Boulder, Jefferson counties
Dan Boniface
dan.boniface@denvergazette.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Up to 43,000 residents in parts of Boulder and Jefferson counties should be prepared to have their power shut off Saturday afternoon, Xcel Energy said. The power company said it was “planning for a likely Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS)...
Colorado GOP chair Brita Horn says she’ll resign next month, points to ‘divide within our party’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Colorado Republican Party Chair Brita Horn said Thursday that she will resign her position next month following the GOP’s state assembly, citing what she described as an “enduring divide” within the party “marked by vitriol and hostility.” Horn’s announcement came...
Colorado justices skeptical of appellate court’s limitation on prosecution’s appeal
Michael Karlik
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Updated 1 day ago
The Colorado Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Tuesday that Denver prosecutors should be barred from appealing a trial judge’s permanent dismissal of a criminal case, based upon the sequence of events after the original ruling. Prosecutors charged Quinn M. Jebe...
Senate committee moves forward with Colorado ballot measure to redirect TABOR refunds to schools
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 5 hours ago
A Senate panel on Thursday voted along party lines to move forward with a bill that would ask voters for permission to eliminate Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds and redirect those dollars to K-12 public education. The 6-3 vote in...
Federal judge: Government violated order shielding man from deportation in ‘one-off mistake’
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A federal judge acknowledged on Thursday that the government violated his order by deporting a man in immigration detention during his pending court case, but it “serves nobody’s interests” to require the government to return him. On Feb. 18, Tesfami...