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Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:24:04 GMTJunior Leagues’ Kids in the Kitchen is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Pueblo Community College, inside Pueblo Joe’s, lower level of the Student Center, 900 W. Orman Ave.
Free kids cooking demonstrations, activity fair, giveaways and goo...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:54:49 GMTPETER STRESCINOColorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican, announced Tuesday he has joined in introducing the Death Tax Repeal Act, legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, commonly known as the death tax.
“Growing up on the Eastern Plains and ...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:56:03 GMTPETER STRESCINODemocrats in the Colorado State Legislature introduced a House Joint Resolution urging the “immediate rescission of the Executive Order regarding the entry of foreign nationals into the United States that was issued by the president of the United Sta...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:19:48 GMTPETER STRESCINOColorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet delivered a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, published as “A Shameful Departure from Our Heritage,” in response to Trump’s executive order banning refugees from entering the United States.
Bennet called on the pr...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:27:30 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINRecently released school quality ratings from the Colorado Department of Education show that in Pueblo County School District 70, every school occupies the state’s top two ratings tiers.
Sixteen of the district’s 24 schools are rated as performance, ...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:34:03 GMTBY JOSH LEDERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — Dismayed by the Trump administration’s first days, former President Barack Obama’s loyalists, former aides and even his spokesman are speaking out and even actively resisting the new American leader. It’s a warning to President Donald Tr...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:45:20 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINTRINIDAD — Nearly two years to the day after being hired, Trinidad City Manager Gabe Engeland resigned to take a position in California.
Engeland, who submitted a letter of resignation to Trinidad City Council after being hired as city manager of the...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:50:57 GMTBY JON POMPIA
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINIt’s called the Pueblo No Bully Initiative, a three-year undertaking funded by a $2.1 million grant designed to combat bullying and cyberbullying through training, engagement of parents and stakeholders, as well as student-involved summits.
In high-e...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 22:56:03 GMTBY ANTHONY A. MESTAS
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAINA former U.S. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital surgeon in Korea and Pueblo doctor who led St. Mary-Corwin Hospital as its CEO during the last 19 years of his career in the medical field has died.
Dr. William “Bill” G. Turman died Jan. 25 at the same hos...

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 23:02:04 GMTPETER STRESCINOColorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, voted to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as President Donald Trump’s secretary of Education.
“There is nothing in the conversations I’ve had with this nominee, or in her experience in M...