bob loevy
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Colorado Springs will challenge state law on accessory dwelling units
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The City Planning Department is drafting an accessory dwelling units (ADUs) law that works for the city and is best for the city and pays less attention to state requirements for ADUs enacted by the legislature earlier this year. According to City Planning Director Kevin Walker, the city planners had been working hard to make…
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COVER STORY | Hot Topics of the 2022 General Assembly
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With 2022 an election year, lawmakers traditionally back off a bit from introducing controversial bills. That’s why they have approved some of the biggest measures of the past six years – oil and gas reform, Colorado option, climate change and greenhouse gas – in odd-numbered years when they worry less about voter reactions at the ballot box. Will…
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Mark Waller to run for district attorney for Colorado’s El Paso, Teller counties
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Mark Waller, currently a member of the El Paso Board of County Commissioners and a former state representative, announced Thursday he will run for the 4th Judicial District Attorney position in the 2020 election. Waller is running to replace current District Attorney Dan May, who is term-limited in 2020. The 4th Judicial District includes El…
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Polis picks former state lawmaker Dianne Primavera as running mate
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, the Democratic nominee for Colorado governor, plans to tap former state Rep. Dianne Primavera to be his running mate, Colorado Politics has learned. Polis, a five-term U.S. congressman from Boulder, plans to introduce Primavera, a former counselor and the CEO of a nonprofit that fights breast cancer, during what the campaign…
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Motives, timing of Hickenlooper’s ‘unusual’ climate change order questioned
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There’s no issue more partisan in Colorado than energy production, so it’s not surprising that opinions of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s draft executive order on climate change are divided right along party lines. But some observers are surprised the governor is going there at all. “We do not have a state record of governors using executive…
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Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … While the state was only in the “infancy stage” as a player in presidential politics, Colorado’s second presidential primary, in 1996, was shining a spotlight on a state that had been mostly ignored by presidential hopefuls. “Colorado got an enormous amount of attention from the…
