Author: Eileen Welsome

Colorado Springs Utilities and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will conduct their next round of public negotiations  involving multi-million dollar water storage contracts needed for the Southern Delivery System pipeline beginning Tuesday morning in Pueblo West. The session is the fourth – and possibly final — in a series of talks over how much the…

An initiative making its way toward the November ballot could increase bail bondsmen’s profits while making it harder for defendants to be released on their own recognizance. Initiative 92, as the measure is called, would allow only defendants charged with a nonviolent, first offense to be released on an unsecured bond to a pretrial services…

As Colorado Springs Utilities prepares to enter its fourth round of negotiations with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation over multimillion dollar water contracts needed for the Southern Delivery System, a Colorado Springs city councilman has thrown a couple of wild cards onto the table. In a 27-page letter sent last month to Interior Secretary Ken…

Following an all-day meeting Thursday, El Paso County commissioners voted 3-2 to postpone a decision on whether to ask voters if medical marijuana facilities should be banned in unincorporated El Paso County. But the all-Republican board made it clear at the end of an eight-hour session that some action will be taken at its Aug.…

County commissioners will consider three medical marijuana items at their weekly board meeting Thursday, including whether to ask voters in November if marijuana-related businesses should be banned in unincorporated El Paso County. Commissioner Amy Lathen, who represents eastern El Paso County, said:  “The right place for resolution of the issue is on the ballot. I…

A Denver judge today pushed back the hearing date for Douglas Bruce’s contempt-of-court hearing to Aug. 25. Denver attorney David Lane, who was retained by Bruce in early August, sought the request from District Judge Brian Whitney because of a scheduling conflict. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is pursuing the contempt case against Bruce  after…

Largely due to the help of paid professional signature gatherers, Colorado voters in November will probably see a proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot related to health care. “Game on,” said Jon Caldara, president of the fiscally conservative Independence Institute, after his group last week turned in more than 130,000 signatures to the Secretary of…

Following a morning hike, Dawn Grabow and her companion paused near a parking lot to consider a proposal by a local businessman to build an aerial adventure park in Fox Run Regional Park. At first, the two women liked the idea of an Indiana Jones-style obstacle course, with wobbly suspension bridges and plunging zip lines,…

The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office has received 33,457 mail-in ballots from voters in El Paso County. That’s about 10,000 more than the 22,475 mail-in ballots received by the clerk’s office during the entire 2006 primary, said Liz Olson, manager of the Election Department. “It’s a pretty good number,” she said Tuesday. It’s…