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Plan calls for more protection of scenic, recreation areas in large swath of Colorado

Sep 6, 2023

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Seth Boster

The Bureau of Land Management has released a plan to manage a vast mosaic of canyonlands, grasslands and mountains in southern, central and eastern Colorado. In the works for close to a decade, the plan is officially called the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. “Eastern” might be deceiving; the focus area spans beyond the plains…
Appeals court upholds man’s conviction for threatening judge

May 31, 2022

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Michael Karlik

The state’s Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Cañon City man for retaliating against the judge who imposed a protection order on him. After a 2019 hearing in which Gary Sanders Jr. was ordered to stay at least 100 yards away from his wife, Sanders left the courtroom with a deputy and said,…
With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin

Nov 24, 2021

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EVAN WYLOGE

The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
Redistricting testimony triggers high-profile lobbying disclosure, questions over reporting requirements

Jul 17, 2021

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EVAN WYLOGE

Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners are in the middle of a statewide tour, listening as members of the public give their opinions on what they want the next decade’s congressional and legislative maps to look like. But that isn’t entirely what’s been going on. In at least one example at the commissions’ public input hearing Tuesday…
Former Colorado lawmaker Ken Kester passes away in Arizona

Feb 20, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Former Colorado state lawmaker Ken Kester of Las Animas passed away on Feb. 17 at his home in Arizona. Kester served in the Colorado House from 1998 to 2002 and in the state Senate from 2003 to 2010. Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 26, at the Las Animas Community Center. Kester…
Senate President Kevin Grantham talks to kids about online safety

Oct 10, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

If there’s one thing kids can’t get enough of, it’s state Senate President Kevin Grantham. Perhaps that’s why the local lawmaker led off a middle school assembly in Canon City Monday about the importance of online safety. “The Online Safety Roadshow: How to Be Internet Awesome” stopped at Harrison Middle School with Grantham as its…
Sessions’s prison order doesn’t mean a boom for Fremont County

Aug 18, 2017

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Kara Mason

Will there be more inmates headed for the state’s prison capital? Since May, people have been saying it’s possible under a Trump administration that’s vowing to get tougher on crime. This week in the print edition of the Economist, Cañon City councilman Frank Jaquez said area prisons, a mix of federal and state, aren’t filled…
Not everyone is mourning demise of epic Arkansas River art project

Jan 26, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

To the New York Times, the abrupt decision this week by art legend Christo to call off his decades-long, legally contested effort to erect his proposed “Over the River” project along a stretch of the Arkansas near Cañon City is yet another manifestation of “the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump.” Indeed, most of the Times’s account of the development is…
From boyhood to top senator, Grantham grew up in politics

Dec 30, 2016

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JOEY BUNCH

Coming Sunday on ColoradoPolitics.com and in the Colorado Springs Gazette, we take a look at the statehouse odd couple, new Senate President Kevin Grantham of Canon City and House Speaker Crisanta Duran of Denver. As leaders of the majority in their chambers, the relationship they have determines what gets done in the four-month legislative session…
? Swedish prison officials tour Colorado facility

Nov 2, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

For the two and a half days at the end of October, officials and staff of the Colorado Department of Corrections met with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service to share information and tour a state prison. “It is an honor that they picked the Colorado Department of Corrections to visit and hopefully they learn…