Tag: Pueblo
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‘The heart of Pueblo:’ A mural grows again along the Arkansas River
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One morning this spring, as dawn broke over the mountains in southern Colorado, Valrie Eisemann loaded her truck with paint and climbing gear and drove about 65 miles to her canvas: a concrete wall angling high above the Arkansas River. She arrived at her place…
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King Soopers strike will begin Thursday, Colorado grocery workers union says
Grocery workers at many King Soopers locations across the Front Range will begin striking on Thursday, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced Monday morning. The strike will begin at all unionized King Soopers stores in Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson counties, as well as stores in Boulder and Louisville. It’s still…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are we most thankful for across this state’s great outdoors? It’s…
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Xcel Energy’s 10-megawatt iron-air battery demonstration project takes off in Pueblo
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Xcel Energy is partnering with Form Energy, an energy storage technology company, to build two 10-megawatt iron-air battery demonstration projects: one at the soon-to-be shuttered Comanche power plant site near Pueblo and another at the likewise retiring Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, Minn. At a meeting in Pueblo on Thursday, Xcel Energy, Form Energy,…
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10 spots for comfort food across Colorado’s Front Range
Just as winter is about skiing in the mountains in Colorado, it’s about finding comfort back home. It’s about finding a taste of home — that heavy chow that brings us warmth and brings us back. Consider these feasts across the Front Range: Gray’s Coors Tavern, Pueblo: We can’t talk about comfort food in Colorado…
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Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado where World War I-era chemical weapons were once stored. Stored here now are reminders of a much different place. The Lincoln Home “was the only known orphanage of…
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Government jobs growth leads Colorado in 2023, report shows
Unemployment in Colorado ticked up to 3.4% in January from 3.3% in December, according to the latest numbers available from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment released Monday. Colorado’s jobless rate increased slightly over 12 months from 3%, but has consistently stayed below the national average of 3.7%. December’s original unemployment level was reported…
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Colorado lawmakers sharply divided over drug abuse bills, bail for first-degree murder defendants; meet Heather Graham, Pueblo’s new mayor | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 23, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Debate over proposals tackling drug use, treatment illustrates ideological divide in Colorado Colorado lawmakers on Tuesday tackled two proposals that offer convergent — and divergent — approaches to combatting drug abuse during a discussion that starkly illuminated on ideological disagreements at the state…
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What’s a zebu? All about the National Western Stock Show cattle breed
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The National Western Stock Show has a cure for your animal fix, from alpacas to zebus. Zebu who? asks you. Read zis, to learn about the world’s most adorable cow. The zebu is a flop-eared miniature ox that will steal your heart with one doe-eyed look. It is one of the many cattle breeds which…
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Pueblo’s home of Mr. Chile a longtime favorite — and a president’s choice | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Romero’s Cafe, founded in 1976 by Virginia Romero and now run by her son Robert, gained recognition when President Barack Obama visited in 2012 The menu features staples like the Monster Burrito, Enchiladas Tejanas, green chili, and the chile cone. { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”,…