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Colorado’s elected officials grapple with how to keep public meetings open...

As the COVID-19 pandemic forces everybody to consider limiting their exposure to other people, local elected officials are starting to think about how they...

Trains, Pains and Auditory Pollution

If there were a sound that conjured Colorado – an equivalent to the image of a Rocky mountain or the crisp smell of high-desert air – it would be the sound of a train. Steel-wheel rumbles and locomotive whistles evoke the work of stringing together the junctions that formed the map of our square state.

Pueblo notebook: A town in search of a mayor, part II

A meeting of the Pueblo city council yesterday considered a citizens-group proposal to change the city charter and replace the present city manager with...