El Paso county

Sheriff requests $600k budget increase for ‘grossly underpaid’ El Paso County deputies

El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal packed a meeting with deputies on Tuesday to ask the Board of County Commissioners for funds to bridge the gap for what he called “a massive, unacceptable pay disparity” between his and other regional law enforcement agencies.

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El Paso County Board of Health takes a stance on recreational marijuana ballot measures

The El Paso County Board of Public Health has officially come out against a ballot question that will ask Colorado Springs citizens to vote on allowing existing medical marijuana shops to sell recreational marijuana in city limits. 

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Gonzalez: Needle exchange site in Colorado Springs lacks transparency

Needle exchange programs and drug injection sites, described by proponents as “safe injection sites” or “overdose prevention centers,” are ideas that radicals throughout the state continue to push upon our communities, even where they are largely opposed by the public and previously rejected by local institutions.  

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Sorensen: From barn to ballot, Young Republicans stoke the fire at ‘Teddy Roastavelt’

This past Saturday, August 17 th , one of the newest grassroots organizations, the El
Paso County Young Republicans, revived an old GOP tradition called the “Teddy
Roastavelt,” as a call back to the more successful days of the party and a promise to
write a new energetic chapter in local Republican politics.

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