The Pueblo Chieftain: Mayor: Change is coming
Pueblo voters clearly opted for change when they passed question 2A in the Nov. 7 election. They voted to change the city’s current council-manager form of government by electing a strong mayor to be the political and administrative leader.
When the first mayor is elected in November 2018, he or she will replace the city manager as the head of Pueblo’s municipal government, effective January 2019.
The new setup puts a due date on City Manager Sam Azad’s tenure and means fundamental changes in the City Council’s role. This does not alter the fact that Pueblo voters want the city to go in a new direction.
Virginia Giuffre’s family urges Rep. Crank’s help in release of Epstein files
Cleo Westin
cleo-westin@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Family members of the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and other survivors called for the release of the Epstein files outside 5th District U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s office Wednesday in Colorado Springs. “As...
Hickenlooper pitches in $100K for Colorado Democratic Party’s grassroots organizing
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 12 hours ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper has raised $100,000 for the Colorado Democratic Party’s organizing efforts ahead of next year’s election, the party said on Thursday. The former two-term governor, who is seeking reelection to a second Senate term in 2026, said...
The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — became the subject of a recent two-day hearing that could decide just who gets water and how...
Colorado Republican leader criticizes Democrats’ comments about Charlie Kirk
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
The new Republican leader of the Colorado House sharply criticized Democrats over recent comments about conversative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this month during an event at a university in Utah. In a letter to the House speaker...
Jeff Hurd primary challenger Hope Scheppelman signs Libertarians’ pledge in bid to avoid ‘spoiler’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 21 hours ago
Hope Scheppelman, the Bayfield Republican challenging first-term U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd in next year’s GOP primary, has signed a pledge prepared by the Colorado Libertarian Party as part of an arrangement meant to discourage the minor political party from running...
Ted Cooke reflects on turmoil over his nomination to Bureau of Reclamation
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Ted Cooke, the former nominee for commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, called the decision to scuttle his nomination “feckless.” President Donald Trump had nominated Cooke, the former director of the Central Arizona Project, in June to head the bureau,...
Federal judge rejects conservative podcaster’s attempt to ‘blame his spam folder’ for missing deadline
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the claims from a conservative podcaster about why he missed his deadline to respond, instead ordering Joe Oltmann once again to pay for the costs of litigating his own contempt proceedings. Earlier this summer,...
Western governors’ eye nuclear for power demand
Scott Weiser
scott.weiser@gazette.com
Updated 19 hours ago
The Western Governors’ Association’s two-day “Energy Superabundance” workshop this week brought together Gov. Brad Little of Idaho and Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah with federal regulators, utility executives, investors and supply-chain managers. The workshop in Idaho Falls focused on nuclear...
Xcel Energy to pay $640 million in settlement related to Marshall Fire
Spencer McKee
spencer-mckee@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 19 hours ago
In December of 2021, the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 buildings in Colorado’s Louisville, Superior, and unincorporated Boulder County. Nearly four years later, a settlement involving Xcel Energy has been reached. The Denver Gazette’s Michael Braithwaite reports that Xcel...
Appeals court addresses defendant’s request to get property back 3 years after Supreme Court laid out process
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Almost three years after the Colorado Supreme Court clarified how a convicted defendant may ask law enforcement to hand over his seized property, the state’s second-highest court found an El Paso County judge wrongly denied the man’s request to return...
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DeGette joins dozens in Congress seeking investigation into sexual harassment claims against Trump
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., is one of nearly 145 members of Congress calling for an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. DeGette and others sent a letter this week asking the House Oversight Committee to launch an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. “At least 17 women have […]