Author: Conrad Swanson, The Gazette

COLORADO SPRINGS – Voters only elected one new face in the Tuesday election, and he’s not that new. Former Secretary of State Wayne Williams will join at-large Councilmen Bill Murray and Tom Strand, while Mayor John Suthers also was re-elected in a landslide victory, City Clerk Sarah Johnson reported Tuesday evening.  Suthers secured 61,830 of…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis stuck to familiar themes in a second State of the State address delivered at a Friday luncheon in Colorado Springs: health care, education, prosperity and innovation. The state of Colorado is solid, strong, successful, daring and bold, Polis told a packed crowd at The Antlers hotel downtown. And the goal for…

A measure that would allow victims of revenge porn to seek civil damages has been sent to Gov. Jared Polis. Senate Bill 100, proposed by Sen. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, would expand existing laws criminalizing revenge porn – typically the sharing of intimate images without the subject’s consent – to enable victims to sue in civil court,…

Colorado’s Senate — in session during a blizzard — gave its final approval Wednesday to an omnibus bill proposing a sweeping overhaul of the state’s oil and gas industry. The party-line vote to approve Senate Bill 181 — 19-15, with one absence — came after less than an hour of debate, compared to the more…

At John Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign kickoff event Thursday night in Denver, Jeremiah and Toni DiGennaro watched from near the center of Civic Center Park as the sun crept west and the daylight dwindled. With one folding chair between them, the two whiled away the hours before the former governor took the stage in the Greek…

A bill extending the statute of limitations to prosecute those who fail to report child sexual abuse to the proper authorities is now in the hands of Gov. Jared Polis. Colorado’s House of Representatives unanimously approved Senate Bill 49 Wednesday morning on a third and final vote, sending the measure to Polis’ desk. Representatives at…

The line’s familiar and yet not tired. If it were engraved on Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers’ tombstone, well, that’d be just fine, he says. “I’m still trying to build the city that matches our scenery,” Suthers said, noting it couldn’t be accomplished in a single term. On deck if he’s re-elected to a second…

After weeks of discussion and a preview by Gov. Jared Polis Thursday, Democrats have introduced a sweeping bill in the Colorado state Senate that would overhaul regulation of the state’s oil and gas industry and give local communities more say over it. Senate Bill 181 was introduced Friday by Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder,…

An omnibus bill shifting the management of Colorado’s oil and gas industries and redefining regulators’ guiding principles will be introduced in the coming days, Gov. Jared Polis and the state’s ranking Democrats said Thursday. Few have seen the imminent legislation, though Polis and House and Senate majority leaders, Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, and Sen. Steve…

Decades pass before most sexual abuse victims work up the courage to admit they were violated, according to former Denver County Magistrate Judge Paul Quinn. That is, if they’re ever able to acknowledge the abuse. Many are so distraught they’re driven to suicide, he said. “I could never tell the truth about my sexual abuse,”…