A lawsuit filed this week against the El Pomar Foundation accuses the nonprofit of violating state law by secretly lobbying members of then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s staff to kill a
Officials in then Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration helped an influential Colorado Springs nonprofit privately lobby a member of the state mining board to kill plans for a granite quarry, setting
The staff of the Colorado State Land Board on Tuesday dealt a blow to an effort to renew plans for a controversial granite quarry on a ranch just south of
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A truck drives south on U.S. Highway 115 Friday, July 22, 2016, at the intersection of Little Turkey Creek Road south of Colorado Springs. The proposed rock quarry on the Hitch Rack Ranch property by Transit Mix Concrete would add 275-round trips by similar trucks to the highway between the site and Colorado Springs. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
CHRISTIAN MURDOCK, THE GAZETTE
CHRISTIAN MURDOCK, THE GAZETTE