Earlier this month, Midway resident and water quality activist Liz Rosenbaum wrote an email to Colorado politicians, state health officials, Wigwam Mutual Water Company staff and others asking when her home’s tap water would be free of PFAS – a group of industrial chemicals used in a wide variety of consumer products – and safe […]
On Sunday, June 14, the Pikes Peak Bulletin and Community Anchor Academy hosted a gubernatorial Southside Candidate Forum. The forum discussed issues from a Southside perspective. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser was the only major-party candidate to attend. An article about the forum as a whole may be found here. A video recording of the […]
On Sunday, June 14, the Pikes Peak Bulletin and Community Anchor Academy hosted a gubernatorial Southside Candidate Forum. Moderated by Kimberly Gold, the Colorado Springs City Councilor for District 4 representing Southeast Colorado Springs, the forum was an opportunity to get to know candidates for governor in this year’s election and talk about issues from […]
In my previous column, I challenged readers to spend this summer visiting new trails and to get out of a rut that we can easily fall into. This week, I’m going to continue on that theme with one of my favorite places you may not have visited yet: Staunton State Park. The nearly 4,000-acre park […]
On Juneteenth, we remember a moment that changed history. More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, the news of freedom finally reached enslaved Black Americans in Texas. Imagine that moment. Imagine generations of men, women, and children who had lived under the weight of bondage finally hearing the words that they were […]
Manitoids are tremendously adept at two things: Coming together in hard times, like fires and floods, and protesting injustice by raising torches and pitchforks. Many of us have been raising those torches and pitchforks in the past week about the gross injustice we’ve witnessed during the renovation of the Cliff House at Pikes Peak. Gorgeous […]
Hours after the Cliff House’s new owner replaced colorful xeriscaped gardens in front of the hotel with artificial turf, residents raged on social media about it. “It’s heartbreaking. I won’t be patronizing their veranda this summer for lunch. Their gardens were unmatched,” a local resident wrote on the All About Manitou Springs Colorado Facebook page. […]
This piece appeared first in The Colorado Sun. Every November, Colorado voters turn out in impressive numbers. Every June, a different story unfolds. Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans who faithfully vote in general elections never cast a ballot in the primary elections that help determine which candidates appear on the November ballot in the […]
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