The Pueblo Chieftain: Battle of the bookworms
College basketball’s season-ending tournaments will be cranking up next month, concluding with the three-game championship series known as the Final Four. However, the Pueblo City-County Library District has already reached the Final Four in a very different sort of competition.
The library district is in the semifinal round of the Best Public Library in America contest. It’s an online competition, sponsored by a group called Engaging Local Government Leaders, in which people cast votes for their preferred libraries. In this round, Pueblo County is pitted against the public library in Lawrence, Kan. The library with the most votes will advance to the finals against the winner of the other semifinal, either Williamsburg, Va., or Baytown, Texas.
The overall winner will get the Leslie B. Knope Award, named after Amy Poehler’s character on the NBC show, “Parks and Recreation.” In addition, the winner will be registered for ELGL 19, an annual event about local government, and appear on ELGL’s GovLove podcast.
Colorado officials ramp up finger-pointing as federal government shutdown’s midnight deadline looms
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 hour ago
Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation on Tuesday blamed their counterparts across the aisle for failing to avert the federal government’s first full shutdown in almost seven years. Shortly before casting a vote against a Republican-led temporary spending bill to extend...
Denver elections worker who lost job after telling Jon Stewart about safety fears settles lawsuit
Associated Press
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Updated 3 hours ago
AP – A former Denver elections worker who says she lost her job after speaking to comedian Jon Stewart about her concerns for the safety of poll workers has settled a lawsuit alleging the city violated her First Amendment rights for $65,000, her lawyer...
‘A model example’: 10th Circuit OK’s Colorado’s non-discrimination requirement for universal pre-K
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 minutes ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Colorado’s universal pre-kindergarten program does not violate the rights of religious preschool operators by requiring participating organizations to refrain from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, among...
Colorado governor proposes to keep Rocky Mountain National Park open amid potential government shutdown
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 hours ago
With a federal government shutdown looming, Colorado’s governor is proposing to use local funds to keep one of the state’s biggest attractions — Rocky Mountain National Park. In a statement to Colorado Politics on Tuesday, Gov. Jared Polis said, “My...
Adams County distributes almost $6M in opioid settlement funds
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Adams County commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday distributing almost $6 million in opioid settlement funds to 19 organizations throughout the county. This is the third round of grant funding from the Colorado Opioid Framework, which was created in 2021 to...
Report ranks Colorado best in nation in early childhood policies
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
A new report by a policy center based in Vanderbilt University has named Colorado the nation’s leader in early childhood resource availability for working parents. The average working parent with two children in Colorado has more than $56,000 in state...
Federal judge sides with Denver in Lisa Calderón’s retaliation lawsuit
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
A federal judge last week concluded a critic of then-Denver Mayor Michael Hancock had not shown that the termination of her city contract amounted to retaliation for her speech. Lisa Calderón was a mayoral candidate and, for a time, the...
Self-Driving CDOT crash truck protects highway workers
Scott Weiser
scott.weiser@gazette.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Highway work zone crashes kill hundreds of people nationwide each year — two Colorado workers last year — but a new driverless, autonomous highway maintenance truck in Colorado aims to shield workers from deadly rear-end collisions by taking the hit...
Government shutdown could trigger furloughs in Colorado Springs, close Rocky Mountain National Park
Mary Shinn
mary-shinn@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
A looming government shutdown could leave tens of thousands of employees in Colorado Springs without a paycheck and close many government services. A funding bill requires 60 votes to be adopted in the Senate. Senate Republicans only have a three-seat net majority,...
What happens during a government shutdown and how will it affect Colorado?
Annabella Rosciglione
annabella-rosciglione@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
A looming government shutdown could leave hundreds of thousands of federal employees without a paycheck and close many government services. The impact of a shutdown would vary from state to state. Among its most visible impact in the state could include the...
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