Colorado Springs City Council will hold a rare third hearing on what licenses the city auditor should have after councilors failed to pass an ordinance at their Aug. 26 meeting that would have dropped the requirement for auditors to be Certified Public Accountants (CPA). Councilors will vote when they next meet in September on an […]
Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to divide the $1.4 million that the City expects to reap from taxes on recreational marijuana sales between the Clean & Safe pilot program, which will target public safety, homelessness and cleanliness in the downtown area, and treatment programs for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. But the […]
Colorado Springs City Council formally overrode Mayor Yemi Mobolade’s veto of an ordinance that authorizes Council to seek grant applications and set up “buckets” to receive and use the $1.4 million the City expects to earn from taxes on recreational marijuana sales. Prior to the vote, councilors who voted not to countermand Mobolade’s veto questioned […]
First presentation in a series by UCCS Center for the Study of Evangelicalism Project 2025 – the 900-plus page right-wing gameplan to reshape U.S. culture and the federal government – is driven by Christian nationalism, and its architects are “working actively towards implementing every single word” of it, a speaker said at a presentation on […]
Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade vetoed a City ordinance that authorizes City Council to solicit grant applications from nonprofits hoping to get a share of the funds generated by marijuana sales and then recommend to the mayor’s office how the money should be disbursed. “These funds can improve emergency response times, address the growing mental […]
Marijuana is still a, shall we say, burning issue for the Colorado Springs City Council. For months, debate in Council has covered everything from whether recreational weed should be sold in the city, to who should sell it, how far should they be from places frequented by kids and people with substance use disorders, to […]
A few months after he bought the nearly 100-year-old Penny Arcade in Manitou Springs, serial entrepreneur John Weiss was crowd-sourcing ideas to ensure the Arcade remains a “tremendous resource” for the city while preserving its traditional character. That could be described as the ambiance of a British seaside town minus the soft ice cream with […]
Colorado Springs City Council voted on June 24 not to shelve an ordinance that would allow it to solicit grant applications from nonprofits to receive funds raised through recreational marijuana sales, and recommend to Mayor Yemi Mobolade how to spend the pot money. Freshman Councilor Kimberly Gold proposed removing the ordinance from the consent agenda […]
Murals are part of the soul of Manitou Springs. They’re along the Avenue, at the tops of buildings, on brick walls, in parking lots, in shop windows – and this summer, Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts is offering emerging and established artists the chance to add their brushstrokes of creativity to the city by taking […]
You may silently give thanks for the privilege of living in the 719 area code every day, but for the second year in a row, local public radio station KRCC (91.5 FM) wants you to celebrate out loud to mark what they’ve dubbed 719 Day. 719 Day is like Free Slurpee® Day, in that both […]
Chris Sorenson feels his “quality of life has gone down a bit here in northern El Paso County, and I feel that it’s the result of excessive growth,” he said at a meet-and-greet in Monument on June 21 with County Commissioners Holly Williams and Bill Wysong. “It seems that our mission and our vision is […]
Lauren Nelson was sworn in to the El Paso County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, replacing Cami Bremer, who resigned earlier this month. Appointed by a vote of the local Republican Party, she fills the District 5 seat vacated by Cami Bremer, who was selected in September last year to serve as CEO of Pikes […]
Downtown Colorado Springs saw streets lined with protestors gathered in opposition to President Donald Trump’s policies and the military parade he threw in Washington, D.C., on Saturday – which was Flag Day and the 250th anniversary of the Army as well as Trump’s 79th birthday. Organizers estimated the crowd size in the ballpark of 9,000. […]
Changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, a budget reconciliation bill now in Congress, would rob thousands of Coloradans of health coverage and lead to health care industry layoffs, but do little for the U.S. economy, health professionals and fiscal experts have warned. Around 11 million […]
The debate over where U.S. Space Command’s headquarters should be located is back on the front burner as the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said he plans to move the Command out of Colorado Springs, following a new report on the matter. After the Government Accountability Office said in a report in May […]
Retired Brig. Gen. Marty France stood in his dress uniform outside the southern entrance to the U.S. Air Force Academy on May 28, holding a sign calling for transgender cadets to be allowed to serve as a steady stream of cars drove onto base for graduation. Three transgender cadets “walked” at this year’s graduation ceremony, […]
Nearly a month after the April 27 raid on an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, an immigrants’ rights group continued to question whether law enforcement agents acted lawfully when they detained 86 of the club’s patrons without first confirming that they were in the United States illegally. “Detaining individuals without evidence they’re undocumented, especially in […]
Hours after County Commissioners unanimously voted for Kaname “Kenny” Kuniyuki to fill the seat on the Pikes Peak Library District board of trustees that’s been vacant for months, the Colorado Springs City Council overwhelmingly rejected him in a 6-3 vote. The selection process, which started last August, will go back to the liaisons – two […]
Scores of people who U.S. officials called “illegal aliens” when they were rounded up in the April raid of an underground Colorado Springs nightclub are being held at a contract detention center in Aurora, a federal law enforcement official told the Pikes Peak Bulletin this week. [The Pikes Peak Bulletin does not use the term […]
Colorado Springs City Council passed a resolution on May 13 reaffirming for the third time in 18 months that Colorado Springs is not a sanctuary city. Councilor Roland Rainey Jr. proposed the resolution following the April 27 raid on an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
