cripple creek
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Cripple Creek councilmen face recall after voting to allow retail gift shop in heritage center
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Two Cripple Creek councilmen have been named in a special recall election scheduled for late January over their votes last summer to allow retail sales at a city-owned facility. The resident-led initiative attempts to oust Councilmen Mark Green and Charles Solomone after they voted in early July to permit a retail gift shop to operate…
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Teller County requests statewide fire emergency decree from Polis as High Park fire burns
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Teller County is asking Gov. Jared Polis to declare a statewide wildfire emergency, according to a Monday news release from the county. The Board of County Commissioners cited the High Park fire and other recent wildfires around Colorado in its request for the declaration, which would allow the state to access emergency funds and allocate…
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‘Tiny homes’ — a hit in pricey Denver and pricier Aspen — could be coming to Cripple Creek
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By 1930 it’s believed that Cripple Creek, now a small gambling getaway west of Colorado Springs, created 30 millionaires with its bounty of gold. But today, the city is looking for ways to build more affordable housing. Mostly for the people working in the city’s popular casinos. Like Colorado’s urban centers and lavish ski spots,…
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Lawmakers say they’ll produce safety data Hickenlooper wants on bar closing times
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Gov. John Hickenlooper says he wants “conclusive” evidence that extending bar hours won’t endanger the public and on Wednesday told lawmakers either to produce it or scrap a bill to let local governments set later closing times and instead create a study, The Colorado Statesman has learned, but the bill’s sponsors say they’ll be happy to produce the…
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YESTERYEAR: Supreme Court affirms Legislature’s gambling acts, Wadham’s wins GOP by acclamation
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Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The Colorado Supreme Court had been mulling over the Legislature’s gambling restrictions on elected officials, passed six years earlier, and they had reached their conclusion. The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared constitutional a law prohibiting elected, municipal officials of Central City, Black Hawk and Cripple Creek as…
