Monument voters will elect five town officials on November 3 and decide whether to raise the town’s tax on construction. Six candidates filed for the five seats, and only the mayor’s race drew more candidates than there are places to fill: two sitting councilmembers are competing for the seat Mitch LaKind is leaving after six […]
Tag: 2026 Elections
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Palmer Lake’s November Ballot Is Set: Two for Mayor, Ten for Five Trustee Seats
Palmer Lake’s clerk certified the November 3 ballot: two candidates for mayor, ten for five trustee seats. The top two winners serve four years, the next three two.
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LaKind Will Not Seek Re-Election as Mayor of Monument
Mitch LaKind announced he will not seek re-election as Monument’s mayor in November, ending a six-year run from trustee to mayor that spanned the town’s conversion to home rule. His departure puts an open seat atop a ballot already carrying four council seats and a use-tax question.
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Kent Hutson Chaired Palmer Lake’s Master Plan. Now He Is Running for Mayor.
A neuroradiologist who chaired the volunteer team behind Palmer Lake’s 2022 community master plan is running for mayor, taking no campaign contributions. He would inherit a water emergency, a Highway 105 sidewalk design due at year’s end, and a budget drawing on reserves.
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Monument Town Council, August 17, 2026: A Subdivision Denied, a Tax on the Ballot, a Fee Schedule Rewritten
Monument’s council rejected 205 homes beside the Air Force Academy, sent a construction-materials use tax to the November ballot, approved 354 apartments on Old Denver Road, and adopted a fee schedule that in places departs sharply from its own consultant’s advice.
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Matt Grubesic Enters the District 1 Commissioner Race as a Write-In
A finance veteran, economics graduate and author who spent two years on the Ford Amphitheater noise dispute is running for El Paso County commissioner in District 1. He filed as a write-in on July 6th.
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Monument Town Council, August 3, 2026: A Tax Sent Back, Water Rates Up, an Exit From the Loop
Monument’s council sent its ballot language back for rewriting, raised water rates for the first time since 2020, voted to leave the Loop water project, and approved a powersports dealership — all without a word of public comment.
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Live Results: El Paso County Commissioner Primary (2026)
Live, unofficial results for the El Paso County Board of Commissioners primary — Districts 1 and 5, updated through the night.
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The Final Countdown: Who Is Funding El Paso County’s Next Commissioners
Before El Paso County’s June 30 primary: which commissioner candidates are funded by developers versus individual donors, by district — and how to vote.
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Choose Wisely
Buc-ee’s lost a public vote in Palmer Lake, then bought the land anyway and turned to El Paso County — where a citizen never gets to vote, where the Board of County Commissioners has denied just two of 476 land-use decisions since 2018 — neither a housing or commercial development — and where the company is now trying to avoid even that board. An examination of eight years of votes, two decades of campaign money, and the small circle of people who keep electing one another.