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Rural Colorado deserves a tax holiday | GUEST COLUMN
Spend enough time in Colorado’s Eastern Plains, the San Luis Valley, or the Western Slope, and you’ll see boarded-up storefronts, schools consolidating classrooms, and small rural communities stretching every dollar to keep basic services afloat. Once the backbone of Colorado’s economy, these communities are losing population and wealth while staring down an uncertain future. But…
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Faulty police warrant prompts appeals court to overturn La Junta man’s convictions
Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last month that police relied on an illegal search warrant to obtain evidence against a La Junta man despite having no probable cause for a crime. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals reversed the theft and attempted trespass convictions of David Leon Gearhart based on the Fourth Amendment’s requirement…
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Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment
The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
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YESTERYEAR: Postmasters point toward safer, more effective mail delivery
Fifty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Top officials with the Post Office Department – including Acting Assistant Postmaster General Sidney W. Bishop, a Denver native – unveiled major new Postal Service programs before an audience of 2,700 delegates to the 57th annual National Association of Postmasters Convention in Denver. The department would…