Author: Megan Schrader
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Abortion rights groups want opponents to tone down rhetoric following Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – Pro-abortion rights groups rallied at the state Capitol Tuesday, asking their most staunch political opponents to tone down the angry anti-abortion rhetoric in the wake of a deadly shooting at the Colorado Springs…
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Sen. Lambert to inquire about Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue tracking at public health dept. hearing Tuesday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Despite the recent fatal shootings at Planned Parenthood, a Colorado Springs senator plans to ask a series of pointed questions about Planned Parenthood and “fetal tissue trafficking” at a budget hearing Tuesday for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “These are questions that…
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El Paso County GOP brings gives business leaders time with local mayors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers hinted at major business deals brewing behind the scenes for the airport and in the cybersecurity field Tuesday at an El Paso County Republican Party event for area business leaders.…
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Secretary of State: Humane Society of the United States didn’t fraudulently raise funds in Colorado
The Humane Society of the United States didn’t mislead Colorado donors in advertisements that featured cats and dogs prominently, said the Secretary of State’s Office in a letter to the attorney who filed a complaint earlier this year saying the national charity had violated the Colorado Charitable Solicitation Act. The letter was sent Nov. 18…
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Colorado water plan extensive but isn’t binding
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper unveiled Colorado’s first water plan Thursday, which calls for reducing Colorado municipal and industrial water consumption in the next three decades to levels that haven’t been seen since 1970, when…
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A handful of Syrian refugees have come to Colorado in 2015
Since 1999, 19 Syrian refugees have come to Colorado, including five in 2015 under a federal program that helps those fleeing violence in their home countries relocate to the United States. That Department of Homeland Security program has come under intense scrutiny this week as governors across the nation have spoken out against allowing Syrian…
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Former governors supporting push to change Colorado redistricting rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – Two former governors want to ask voters to overhaul the way Colorado draws congressional and state legislative districts to end the gerrymandering that has created safe-districts for the majority of the state’s politicians.…
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Colorado Secretary of State intervenes in campaign finance fight
Secretary of State Wayne Williams is in the middle of a campaign finance fight between the self-proclaimed campaign watchdog Matt Arnold and Bob Gardner, who was the former attorney for the Alliance for a Safe and Independent Woodmen Hills. Williams made a motion to intervene in that dispute and two other campaign finance complaints Arnold…
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Colorado Springs Police Department releases names of officers involved in shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs police released the names of two officers involved in a shooting Tuesday afternoon that left a 63-year-old man in critical condition. Officers Matthew Peterson and Derek Wilson both fired shots on Nov. 10,…
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Henry Allen Jr. ousted as president of NAACP’s Colorado Springs chapter
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On the eve of the NAACP’s annual gala in Colorado Springs, the sitting president of the local branch was ousted in an off-cycle election called by the national chapter. Henry Allen Jr. was elected president of Springs chapter of the National Association for the Advancement…