Author: Megan Schrader
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GOP candidates’ jabs at moderators draw applause
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER – GOP candidates faced a friendly crowd Wednesday night in one of the most liberal cities in Colorado even if the CNBC moderators didn’t. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio complained about the “liberal mainstream media”…
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Frost finally arrives in Colorado Springs, record missed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs was so cold Wednesday morning that it nearly broke a record. Temperatures dropped down to 28 degrees, which is the second latest freeze on record behind Oct. 31, 1963, when it was 27…
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Organizers, protesters prepare for Republican presidental debate in Boulder
Republicans going to Boulder Wednesday for the fourth GOP presidential debate will be welcomed to the state’s liberal stronghold with protests and a plane circling the city with a banner making a quip about the billionaire Koch brothers. “I’m not sure necessarily why anyone chose to have a Republican debate in what is obviously an…
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State patrol: 2 motorcyclists die in separate El Paso County crashes
Two motorcyclists were killed in separate crashes Tuesday on Interstate 25 in El Paso County. Justin Aspuria, 28, was clocked on stationary radar going 101 mph just before 10 a.m. on southbound Interstate 25, according to a news release from the Colorado State Patrol. A Colorado State trooper tried to catch the motorcycle with lights…
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Dispute between Colorado governor, attorney general to be weighed by state Supreme Court
Colorado’s Democratic governor is at odds with the state’s Republican attorney general over her actions opposing several federal laws and it’ll fall to the state Supreme Court to resolve the conflict. Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced on Friday that she would join more than two dozen other states in challenging the legality of the Environmental…
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Colorado Springs will hear proposal to add construction defects law
DENVER – Colorado Springs could be the next municipality to join a growing list of places addressing the issue of construction lawsuit reform at the local level after legislation on the issue has failed three years in a row at the state level. City councilwoman Jill Gaebler said Friday she would bring a proposal to…
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Hickenlooper reflects on Asia trip
Gov. John Hickenlooper returned from his jet-lagging jaunt to four countries in 12 days this week and declared it a relationship-building success that will pay dividends for Colorado. “It might be argued we tried to take too big a bite,” Hickenlooper said Thursday. “We actually were in planes or trains for 46 hours in the…
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Former state Rep. Gardner, political group file for foreclosure in ongoing dispute
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Alliance for a Safe and Independent Woodmen Hills is attempting to foreclose on the house of Ron Pace, a neighborhood activist who owes almost $90,000 in attorneys fees to the Alliance after a failed…
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‘Colorful and popular’ Gohmert to speak in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rep. Louie Gohmert, a leader in the anti-Speaker John Boehner movement, will speak Saturday at the Doubletree World Arena just as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives struggle to fill a leadership vacuum caused…
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State tax credit for proposed Colorado Springs data centers is approved
Colorado’s Economic Development Commission approved up to $428,400 in job growth tax credits Thursday for two new data centers that could open in Colorado Springs. The company, which is being kept anonymous as negotiations proceed, also received incentives from the city of Colorado Springs and El Paso County. Nicknamed Project DC West, the company is…