Author: Dean Toda
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Did Bruce misfire with latest assault on stormwater fee?
Patricia Kelly says Douglas Bruce may have missed his mark with his November ballot proposal. Kelly, the city attorney for Colorado Springs, said Tuesday that she thinks it’s possible to interpret Issue 300, a Bruce-engineered ballot initiative intended to halt the collection of fees by the city’s Stormwater Enterprise, as inapplicable to that agency. In…
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Calhan school board candidates confront declining enrollment
Editor’s note: This is another in a series of profiles of the 10 contested school board races in the Pikes Peak region. The stories will run intermittently in the days leading up to the distribution of mail-in ballots in mid-October. Calhan School District RJ-1 is small and getting smaller. Linda Miller, the Calhan superintendent, said…
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GOP gubernatorial hopeful goes after Ritter
If the GOP contest to challenge Gov. Bill Ritter is a generational affair, Scott McInnis was in friendly territory during a visit Monday to Colorado Springs. McInnis, a 56-year-old former congressman who’s facing a 33-year-old rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, emphasized his “experience and judgment” Monday at a luncheon of the El Paso County…
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D-38 board candidates disagree on district’s ‘crisis of confidence’
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of profiles of the 10 contested school board races in the Pikes Peak region. The stories will be published intermittently in the days leading up to the distribution of mail-in ballots in mid-October. Is there a “crisis of confidence” in the leadership of Lewis-Palmer School District…
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“Tea Party II’ protests taxes, health care reform
“Good morning, fellow racists!” Jon Caldara crowed Thursday as he opened Colorado Springs’ second anti-tax “Tea Party” in Acacia Park. Caldara was kidding. The talk radio host and president of the Independence Institute, a conservative think tank in Golden, was referring to an accusation leveled by former President Jimmy Carter against defenders of U.S. Rep.…
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Romanoff makes Senate race a grudge match
Colorado Republicans have been known for bitter intraparty fights — the nasty contest between Bob Beauprez and Marc Holtzman for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in 2006, or the Pete Coors-Bob Schaffer donnybrook for the U.S. Senate nod in 2004. Now, with the state tinged blue, it’s the Democrats’ turn to bicker. Andrew Romanoff, a former…
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Jane Norton formally enters Senate race
Saying she had become “more and more alarmed about the direction our nation is headed,” Jane Norton, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, formally launched her 2010 campaign for the U.S. Senate today with rallies spanning the state, including one at the downtown Antlers Hilton. Norton’s theme here and at appearances in Denver and Grand…
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Springs on kickoff tour for U.S. Senate race
It’s hats-in-the-ring week for a couple of big-name candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by Michael Bennet. On Tuesday, former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton kicks off her campaign for the Republican nomination to challenge Bennet. She becomes the most prominent name on a large list of GOP candidates that includes Weld County District Attorney…
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Gubernatorial candidate defends Piñon Canyon vote
It was billed as one young professional talking to a bunch of people like him about what it’s like to quickly climb the ladder of success. Josh Penry has lived that story. At age 33, he’s the Republican leader in the state Senate. But what the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Rising Professionals group got…
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Young Gov. candidate revives Reaganomics
It was billed as one young professional talking to a bunch of people like him about what it’s like to quickly climb the ladder of success.Josh Penry has lived that story. At age 33, he’s the Republican leader in the state Senate.But what the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Rising Professionals got with their lunch…