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Pueblo County Commissioner Chris Wiseman will not seek re-election in 2022 Sara Wilson, The Pueblo Chieftain © Courtesy photo Chris Wiseman Chris Wiseman has decided that his first term on the Pueblo Board of County Commissioners will also be his last.  The county commissioner for District 3 announced last Thursday that he will not be seeking re-election, instead choosing to retire and spend more time with his family.   “I’ve been in public service for a long time, and I’ve enjoyed it,” he said. “But there comes a time where you have to set different prioriti...

Pueblo City Council joins the Board of County Commissioners in opposing a bill that would accelerate the timeline for emission reductions in Colorado.

It’s the single issue that consistently ranks last for citizen satisfaction level and first for what they want city government to prioritize: road condition. But now, Pueblo voters could decide on whether to adopt a new half-cent sales tax in November specifically to fund street repairs to manage the potholes, cracks and uneven patchwork of asphalt that characterize many city streets.   “Voters should decide on the most equitable way to fund street repairs and transportation projects,” Mayor Nick Gradisar said during Monday's Pueblo City Council work session, when he presented ...

Ray Aguilera was sitting next to an elementary school student from Pueblo's Bessemer neighborhood at a Colorado Rockies baseball game when he gave him a few dollars to grab a hot dog from the concession stand.   It was his annual trip to Denver, when he chartered buses and brought dozens of students to a game as a reward for learning vocabulary, oftentimes exposing them to the delight of Coors Field and the state’s capital city for the first time: the smell of freshly cut grass, the aroma of stadium food and the tradition of the seventh inning stretch. Friends say he relished th...

A trio of ordinances that would have hired a new city employee in partnership with a national economic empowerment organization failed Monday during the Pueblo City Council meeting on a 3-3 vote, highlighting the new reality of a six-member city council following the death of Ray Aguilera that could result in stalemates and unpassable ties.  The ordinances would have accepted a grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund, an organization that works with municipal governments to provide financial literacy education — the fundamentals of building credit and how to mana...