pueblo city council
-
Pueblo police take to the air with drones; elsewhere, civilians have qualms
—
by
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…
-
Behind the push for a Pueblo mayor — a thirst for leadership, a quest for respect
—
by
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.…
-
Drumbeat continues for Pueblo to oust Black Hills as city’s utility
—
by
What unifies Pueblo politicos of every stripe? Black Hills Energy. It seems elected officials in the Steel City can’t go wrong by lashing out at the Rapid City, S.D.-based public utility, which supplies the city most of its power – and has been widely excoriated for years of spiraling utility bills. Talk on the Pueblo…
-
Pueblo coffers flush with cash? Things at last are looking up for the Steel City
—
by
When Pueblo City Hall has to ask voters to let it keep excess tax revenue – as would be required under the state’s constitutional taxing and spending limits – you know Colorado’s economy has been booming. It looks like that boom finally has trickled down to the long-struggling community. Reports the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper:…
-
Pueblo passes on a ‘weak’ mayor for now. Strong mayor? Maybe
—
by
Remember the strong-mayor-vs.-weak-mayor debate we reported on in Pueblo? It turns out weak mayor has lost. As for a strong mayor, however, that’ll be left to the city’s voters. As The Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reported recently: There will be a ballot question asking city voters if they want to adopt a strong-mayor system – a…
-
Replay: Pueblo aims for public safety tax once more
—
by
Pueblo City Council is giving it another shot. Monday night the seven council members approved a question for the November ballot that, if passed, would increase the sales tax by .2 percent for the purpose of hiring more police officers. This is the second attempt at increasing taxes for public safety for the City of…
-
… And speaking of public safety in Pueblo: It now will send its shoplifters straight to jail. In Castle Rock.
—
by
They can’t say they weren’t warned. Puebloans who help themselves to a five-finger discount at local shops at last will face swift justice following a decision by the Pueblo City Council Monday to lock up the city’s proliferating shoplifters. Justice probably would come even more swiftly if the miscreants didn’t first have to make the…
-
Colorado cities speak up on Paris climate accord — even if White House isn’t on board
—
by
Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics shot some snark at Denver Mayor Michael Hancock over his appearance at, and tweets from, this week’s annual U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Miami. The confab’s near-consensus on the issue du jour, climate change, was that the nation’s cities should move ahead on their own in tackling the challenge…
-
Will DougCo’s jail tax now accommodate Pueblo’s shoplifters?
—
by
Given Douglas County commissioners’ vote last week to shelve a proposed ballot issue rerouting some of the county’s Justice Center sales tax to fund highway expansion, it was hard not to find irony in a news report out of Pueblo a few days later. The Pueblo Chieftain’s headline said it all: “Pueblo may pay to send…
-
? Letter: Let’s set the record straight on Clarice Navarro
—
by
Editor: Clarice Navarro-Ratzlaff’s opponent’s advertisements indicate that Clarice is not a part of and does not support the constituents of her district, and only hangs out with lobbyists and Donald Trump. Wrong! Let’s start out with the last first. Clarice does not run in the same circles as Donald Trump and he does not have…
