Hello, readers. Please give a warm welcome to Carol Wood as the Pikes Peak Bulletinâs new board chair. Weâre so excited to have her expertise and experience to guide us through this challenging time for journalism. In case you havenât heard, the news industry is scrambling to reinvent itself for the online (and now AI-driven) […]
Iâm the editor of the Pikes Peak Bulletin. A reader sent me an email because he was disappointed in an article I wrote recently, âStudents offered counseling after agents in tactical gear detain person outside high school.â I decided to share his email and my response to it because I think he asks a fair […]
The Pikes Peak Bulletin was not John Weissâs first choice of newspaper for the publication of his letter in support of ballot measure 2A, which he wrote in response to an op-ed by the Gazette editorial board against the measure. He first submitted his letter to The Gazette. [Editorâs note: Weiss has advertised with the […]
Letâs say you are walking in your neighborhood and you see a group of people carrying guns, wearing masks and tactical vests that say âPoliceâ â the kind you can buy on Amazon. They pull a woman into an unmarked vehicle and drive away. Do you know how to tell if what you just witnessed […]
The Pikes Peak Bulletin recently received an email from a reader unhappy with our decision to publish columnist John Hazlehurst’s “Trump, Macbeth and other villains” in our April 25 edition. “Is this really the kind of paper you want to be?” he asked. “I get it is an opinion piece and ‘doesn’t reflect the views […]
As many of you know, the Bulletin has a long history in Manitou Springs, existing in various iterations for over a century. When the Bulletin ceased publication along with a number of other newspapers a few years ago, community members including our publisher Lyn Ettinger-Harwell rallied to bring it back as a nonprofit. Why we […]
Pam Zubeck’s column in this week’s edition (“If the PIT count shows progress, why isn’t downtown feeling it?”) raises good questions about the true scope of homelessness in Downtown Colorado Springs. And it reminds me of an eye-opening experience I had about a year ago. Before coming to the Bulletin, I worked downtown at a […]
Dear readers, A while back, the Pikes Peak Bulletin ran an advice column called Peak Perspectives. It arose because a generous person wanted to do it as a volunteer, for fun. It didn’t last very long and didn’t generate a lot of buzz, and in retrospect I see I fumbled the rollout. There were too […]
