As Henry Solano’s term ends this year, Nicolas Dale decided to run and become the District Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District to ensure there’s an advocate in the corner for victims within Las Animas and Huerfano Counties.
Elizabeth Bulthuis only recently decided to run for Colorado House District 47.
As the election draws nearer, Coloradans have a lot of questions around voting — about how the process works, and also, what protections are there to ensure ineligible people aren’t casting ballots.
Representative Ty Winter wasted no time in his two years serving and helped pass numerous pieces of legislation that he hoped would support southeastern Colorado residents despite being a Republican in a Democratic House supermajority.
Director of planning and land use for Las Animas County, Robert “Bob” Lucero, has spent over 35 years working for the County and now is now running for Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners District 2 in this upcoming election.
Although there aren’t any candidates running for office for municipality positions in Trinidad this upcoming election on November 5, there is one local ballot measure, City of Trinidad Ballot Issue 2A, which seeks to increase the lodging tax from 3% to 6% for people staying at local hotels and short term rentals.
It was a beautiful weekend as Trinidad welcomed home Trinidad High School alumni with a full slate of events including a parade, dance, coronation and football and volleyball games amid a beautiful and sunny fall weekend in southeastern Colorado.