Author: The Pueblo Chieftain

The ink was barely dry on our weekend editions in which we reported that busts of illegal marijuana grows were significantly down. Monday, we were back in the illegal grows busted business. As we reported earlier this week, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office discovered two unrelated illegal marijuana grows on opposite sides of the county…

Pueblo will add up to 32 jobs for the local workforce, according to recent announcements by PuebloPlex and the Pueblo Economic Development Corp. The news includes 15 to 20 workers to be added by New Mexico-based manufacturer CR Minerals at the industrial park at the south end of Pueblo, announced by PEDCO. Also a dozen workers…

Colorado State University-Pueblo will collaborate with the CSU System and Fort Collins in offering the only bachelor’s degrees in wildlife and natural resources in the state. The new Pueblo program, to be implemented over the next few years, will emphasize aquatic and terrestrial wildlife studies. Seed funding for the first two years came from the…

Pueblo City Schools (D60) has changed the way that it has reported personnel changes for decades, and we can’t help but feel the move is an act of retribution against The Pueblo Chieftain. What the school district doesn’t get is that in trying to restrict The Chieftain from obtaining the most routine public information, it…

PUEBLO NEEDS a systematic, no-nonsense program of ridding the city of eyesores — especially derelict and abandoned houses — that plague our living environment. Now is as good a time as any to embark on an eyesore-eradication campaign. The city finally will see to the demolition of a burned-out house at 1115 Spruce St. which…

One look at Page 1 of The Pueblo Chieftain on Wednesday, and it was obvious that Puebloans were thrilled to have the city set up two locations where they could dump tree limbs and branches broken by a recent wet snowstorm. Our photos showed a long line of pickup trucks and piles of branches. We’re…

WE LOST a true Pueblo original when former U.S. Rep. Ray Kogovsek, died Sunday at the age of 75. “Kogo,” as he was affectionately known by so many friends and acquaintances, was our city’s only congressman during the past 40 years. The Pueblo Democrat was elected to represent Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in 1978 and…

We applaud the Colorado Springs Rescue Mission for dropping its plans to buy the old Minnequa Community Corrections building on Lake Avenue. As soon as the plan to put a homeless shelter there was announced, there was some opposition from the Lake Avenue business community, and the Springs nonprofit organization abandoned the idea. Instead, the…

With friends like these, who needs enemies? Apparently no one told Joyce Rankin that she is OUR representative (the 3rd Congressional District) on the Colorado State Board of Education. Because when it came time to fight for Pueblo City Schools (D60) this past week, she led the attack against us. It all happened this past…

Pueblo and Colorado State University-Pueblo’s Institute of Cannabis Research is in the national marijuana spotlight this weekend. The institute’s international, multidisciplinary cannabis research conference opens today and runs through Sunday on the school’s Belmont campus. It is open to the public with a registration fee of $350 per person. Jen Mullen, interim managing director of…