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Pueblo to vote on strong mayor government, sales tax, and four City Council seats on November ballot
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Pueblo voters will decide on six ballot questions and four of the Pueblo City Council seats during the November 4 municipal elections. The standout ballot question asks voters to overturn the 2017 ballot measure that established the “strong mayor” form of council-mayor government in Pueblo. The 2C ballot question would eliminate the office of city…
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City of Pueblo ending contract with Pueblo Economic Development Corporation
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PUEBLO — The city of Pueblo will terminate its contract for economic development services with the Pueblo Economic Development Corporation (PEDCO) at year’s end. The city has provided PEDCO 90 days’ notice of the contract termination, effective Dec. 31, officials said in a news release Tuesday afternoon. A formal transition is underway to ensure PEDCO…
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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…
