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Colorado appeals court issues rulings on drug money, Pueblo councilman’s vandalism
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday decided a pair of cases involving financial restitution to crime victims, finding defendants are not obligated to repay police departments for money used in drug purchases and also upholding a Pueblo council member’s duty to pay $3,800 for his vandalism. Under Colorado law, most convictions require judges to consider whether…
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Pueblo’s proposed anti-abortion ordinance comes with legal questions
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The Pueblo City Council this week approved on first reading a proposed ordinance that could ban abortion within city limits, with some councilmembers and Colorado law experts questioning its legality. The ordinance seems to be the first proposed municipal anti-abortion law brought forth in Colorado, drawing residents and activists on both sides of the abortion…
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In Pueblo, to-dos pile up as the city preps for its first mayor in generations
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Pueblo is going to elect a mayor this year for the first time since the 1950s, and six candidates are already in the running. But as the hopefuls polish their stump speeches and set up their campaign committees, City Hall also has plenty on its plate to prepare for the new full-time “strong mayor,” who…
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Pueblo’s mayoral race has just begun — and there’s already a winner
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…Lori Winner, that is. Make that Lori Lively Winner, which is what she goes by on Twitter. The community activist and former Pueblo City Council member – she’s also a nurse and a pilates/yoga instructor – became the sixth Puebloan last week to enter the running for that city’s newly resurrected post of mayor. You’ll…
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UPDATE: Pueblo’s first mayoral race is drawing more takers
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Never mind, for the moment, how Pueblo got along all these years without a mayor. What Hot Sheet would like to know is how the Steel City’s local news outlets were able to go generations without a dog-eat-dog mayoral race to cover; a mayoral scandal to titillate the public – or a mayor to blame…
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How should Pueblo pick its new mayor? City has yet to figure that out
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Now that the Steel City’s voters have resolved to restore the position of mayor to their long-mayorless city hall – and to elect one who’s not just a figurehead but a true chief executive who actually runs the joint – the real work begins. The city government has to decide exactly how the mayor will…
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Pueblo takes early steps toward a new life without its old public utility
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It is by now a given that Pueblo’s civic leadership is fed up with Rapid City, S.D.-based utility Black Hills Energy, which provides most of the city’s residential power. The utility’s repeated rate hikes over the years alongside other contentious policies have rankled residents and local elected officials alike. The tension culminated in a vote…
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Green groups building toward a critical mass in Pueblo
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Pueblo’s denizens long have voted blue, but green? The Democratic Party’s environmental agenda always had seemed like more of a Boulder kind of thing; not much traction in a blue-collar community whose historic steel plant earned it the moniker “Steel City.” Times are a changin’. Last February, the Pueblo City Council adopted a resolution committing the…
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Pueblo police take to the air with drones; elsewhere, civilians have qualms
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Pueblo’s police department – which the city council has said for years is significantly understaffed – is poised to spend $40,000 on two drones. The Pueblo Chieftain reports the unmanned aircraft will be mainly for conducting searches, as they’ll be equipped with cameras. One will be for indoor use. “The small drones would fly at…
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Behind the push for a Pueblo mayor — a thirst for leadership, a quest for respect
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Question 2A on Pueblo’s municipal ballot this November asks voters in the mayor-less city to establish a mayor’s office – a full-time, well-compensated chief exec who would lead the city’s administration as a reconstituted executive branch opposite the City Council. More or less like the mayor’s office in much-bigger Colorado Springs, just up the road.…
