Rev. Candace Woods shared with the Pikes Peak Bulletin an email exchange between herself and Colorado Springs City Council President Lynette Crow-Iverson following public comments from Woods and other faith leaders at the Jan. 13 council meeting ahead of a proposed Martin Luther King Jr. Day proclamation. The public comments centered on honoring Kingâs civil […]
During a Jan. 23 special meeting held via Zoom, the Manitou Springs City Council approved a resolution establishing a concrete plan regarding immediate next steps connected to downtown parking if the Metropolitan District, a special district formed in 1989 to solve a downtown parking shortage, is dissolved. City Council voted to apply for dissolution of […]
The Colorado Springs City Council meeting on Jan. 27 would have been a quick and dry one were it not for a lineup of about a dozen community members who turned out to make public comment on the councilâs denial of a proposed Black History Month proclamation, the formal reprimand of councilor Kimberly Gold, and […]
Homeward Pikes Peak, in partnership with other agencies and individuals, held the fourth annual Stand Up for Our Community resource event for unhoused community members on Monday, Jan. 26, at the Meanwhile Block, an industrial multi-use venue in downtown Colorado Springs. About 30 relevant organizations including those providing services related to housing, food, substance use […]
U.S. Army veteran Mel Flores is facing three Class 2 Misdemeanor counts for obstructing government operations, obstructing a peace officer, and reckless endangerment. The charges stem from an Oct. 17 incident that occurred while Flores was acting as a volunteer confirmer for the Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN). The CORRN website explains it is a […]
Despite snow and bone-chilling cold, hundreds showed up at Colorado Springs City Hall midday Sunday to participate in a quickly announced protest in the wake of Alex Pretti’s killing the day before by a Border Patrol agent during a large-scale Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis. Pretti was the second person killed by […]
Colorado Springs Councilmember Kimberly Gold has been formally reprimanded by Council President Lynette Crow-Iverson for comments and social media posts she made on Jan. 13 in response to Councilmember Dave Donelsonâs reaction to a group of faith leaders who made public comments to Council critical of federal immigration operations. The faith leaders spoke in the […]
Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) will be raising rates for natural gas customers in 2026 as part of a Sept. 30, 2025, consent agreement with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration due to corroded and leaking natural gas lines. The Colorado Springs City Council serves as the CSU board. According to a recent CSU Board […]
Cristiana Alejo Lambertoâs husband, JosĂŠ Guadalupe Alejo Lamberto, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside the El Paso County Courthouse on Nov. 5, 2025, following an initial appearance in a suspected DUI case stemming from a Sept. 26, 2025, traffic stop by the Colorado State Patrol. Cristiana told the Pikes Peak Bulletin JosĂŠ […]
The 25th Amendment gave Congress the ability to remove a president who is âunable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,â covering physical or mental incapacitation. But this Greenland thing should be the breaking point. He wrote a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre making it clear that the primary reason […]
The Colorado Springs City Council dais is not supposed to be a stage. It is not supposed to be a place where personal beliefs get turned into official statements, as if one manâs worldview represents thousands of people who live, work, and raise families in District 1. And yet, year after year, council member Dave […]
Being able to hike around â all the way around – the circumference of Americaâs Mountain on an unbroken system of connected trails has been a dream of outdoor enthusiasts in the Pikes Peak region for decades. Itâs a dream that has been stymied by multitudes of governmental jurisdictions and land managers, along with private […]
In my front room hangs an old framed photograph inherited from my mother, a Norwegian immigrant. I keep it in a prominent place to remind me that when history comes calling, I have a choice how to answer. It reminds me that our regular lives can be upended by extraordinary circumstances, and we may become […]
Residents of Colorado Springs expressed their shock and outrage during three separate events since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good, a legal observer, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. Good, a 37 year-old mother of three, was a graduate of the local Coronado High School. Video of Goodâs shooting […]
Trumpâs war on truth misfired this week. The shot that killed Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 can not be silenced, though the attempt to do so has been monumental. This may be the one. This may be the crack that finally crumbles the tower of lies that has been growing taller and taller since […]
For nearly three weeks, Colorado Springs resident Marivel Azpeitia has been recording phone conversations with her fiancĂŠ, Edwin Euceda Rios, while he has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In those recordings, he describes witnessing violence by detention center staff against another detainee, threats of further violence, days of isolation, missed meals, unheated […]
Members of the outgoing Manitou Springs municipal government reflected on their time in office during this weekâs City Council meeting. Mayor John Graham and Councilors Nancy Fortuin and Michelle Whetherhult ended their terms as newly-elected Mayor Natalie Johnson and Councilors Nate Nassif, Carey Storm, and Gloria Latimer assumed their new positions. âAt the conclusion of […]
Norwood Development Group plans to build a luxury Catbird Hotel on the northwest corner of Moreno and Cascade Avenues, similar to the original in Denver. Norwoodâs website states, âSage Hospitality Group and Norwood Development Group have submitted a preliminary proposal to build a new Catbird Hotel in downtown Colorado Springs, at the corner of East […]
Anti-transgender activist Stephen Scaer, known online as âSidewalk Steve,â claims he was assaulted while picketing in Manitou Springs on Dec. 27. Scaer, a Nashua, New Hampshire resident, has built his platform holding signs with the slogan âno child is born in the wrong bodyâ and recording the responses he gets from passersby. According to a […]
This time of the year is rife with traditions. Traditional religious and family rites to go with the various holidays and some societal traditions, too, such as making New Year’s resolutions. I donât know how many people actually make New Year’s resolutions, and of those how many people are serious about them, but Iâll give […]
