

Jan. 2016 - May 2017

From January 2017 to May 2017 I had the privilege of being editor of the CSU-Pueblo Today magazine and online website. The CSU-Pueblo Today news team produces a magazine each semester. This is a PDF of the magazine I edited, the articles I helped assign to reporters and eventually helped to produce after many long hours and months of work.

The cost of college climbs across the United States, including Pueblo. (CSU-Pueblo Today-Fall 2016 magazine)

The agenda for the Colorado State University-Pueblo faculty senate meeting on Monday featured typical agenda items such as updates on issues like marijuana research, the strategic plan and retention. Interjected between the usual order of things was a guest the faculty senate welcomed, Antonio Huerta, CSU-Pueblo’s Associated Students’ Government president.

As one walks around the Colorado State University-Pueblo campus, recent large-scale construction projects like the new addition to the Occhiato University Center and the completed general classroom building stand out. Smaller ones like the parking lot renovation behind the library or the sustainable roof of the art and music building are less noticeable.

Another Veterans Day has come and gone, but the number of student veterans on college campuses across the nation is growing and expected to increase by 20 percent within the next few years, according to data from the Veterans Affairs campus toolkit.

Strategy, technique and practice are just a few things baseball and music have in common. For senior John Lemme, a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan and music performance major with an emphasis on saxophone at Colorado State University-Pueblo, his two passions have been linked since an early age.

On Wednesday, local teen girls ages 14 to 18, from Pueblo area high schools gathered at Colorado State University-Pueblo to attend the thirteenth annual Young Women’s Real World Conference.

Just like children in school, Pueblo received its own report card last week in the area of economics. Instead of parents gathering to hear the reports, local businessmen and women from multiple different facets like real estate agencies and other businesses attended the Pueblo Economic Forum for 2016. *This article won the Society of Professional Journalists student news reporting category 2017*

The Colorado Small Business Profile for 2016, which is published by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, reported 572,546 small businesses in Colorado that employ around 1 million people — roughly 48.8 percent of the private workforce.