Itâs a Game Changer! Who: Manitou Springs Penny Arcade and St. Andrewâs Community Center What: After 120 years, St. Andrews Church in the heart of Manitou Springs held its final services. Now, the generosity of the Episcopal Diocese has created an opportunity to transform the buildingâs sanctuary into a welcoming center for area groups, their […]
Today, teachers in Colorado Springs District 11 are on strike. As the grandfather of four kids at Martinez Elementary, I’ll be standing with them. This isn’t just about a contract. It’s about whether our kids get the schools they deserve. My grandkids â ages 9, 7, 4, and 3 â came to live with me […]
Manitou Springs residents and business owners gathered at the Garden of the Gods Trading Post Thursday night to discuss their opposition to Manitou Springs ballot initiative 2A, which would increase the Cityâs excise tax on ticket sales and admission fees from 5% to up to 14%. The proposed tax increase would impact just a handful […]
Sign up because if Manitou Springs could be an idea, it’d be the Manitou 5K on Oct. 11 at 9 a.m. at Fields Park. It’s for everyone, and I mean everyone. Last year finishers ranged from 4 to 82, school kiddos to super seniors. Each and every Manitoid, and all the other Manitoids at heart. […]
Former Fountain city council member Detra Duncan has been all over the news lately as she faces two felony charges of public assistance fraud in the Fourth Judicial District â and the NAACP says these charges and the negative publicity that led her to resign from the Fountain council are part of a pattern of […]
Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade touted the achievements of his administration during his second State of the City address this week at the Broadmoor Hotel. âHalftime is when coaches and analysts will step back and look at the first half,â said Mobolade, wearing a Notre Dame football jersey. âThey review key plays and stats and […]
Earlier this month, during a Labor Day event at Colorado Springs City Hall, educators announced plans to strike this fall over the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Educationâs vote last year to end the only master agreement with a teachers union in El Paso County, which had been in place for over 50 […]
I remember the 1972 Bob Fosse film âCabaretâ as a joyous celebration of sensual excess in pre-Nazi Germany, with some dark undertones. The production that currently struts and shocks at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springsâ Theatreworks turns that around. Director Scott RC Levyâs âCabaretâ is a bleak yet alluring place that delivers brief […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance rose to national prominence with his memoir âHillbilly Elegyâ and the bookâs film adaptation in which Vanceâs personal experience of the opioid epidemic figured heavily. In 2016, he wrote in The Atlantic Magazine, âShortly before I graduated from law school, I learned that my own mother lay comatose in a […]
A July 24 executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump titled âEnding Crime and Disorder on Americaâs Streetsâ addresses homelessness and associated âpublic safety threatsâ by directing state and local governments to loosen the regulations around civil commitment, a legal process by which an individual is committed to an institution or outpatient treatment against their […]
Manitou Springs City Council unanimously approved an updated universal parking fee structure. âThe primary reason we need to do this is the Mountain Metro bus schedule is changing Sept. 28,â said John Crawford, Manitouâs Mobility and Parking Director. âThe Route 33 will begin serving the Dillon and no longer stopping at Hiawatha, so the demand […]
âThe Shark Is Brokenâ should have gone belly up like a dead halibut. The script of this play, which ran through Sept. 14 at Springs Ensemble Theatre (SET) inside Old Colorado Cityâs Fifty-Niner game shop, tells the behind-the-scenes dramedy involved in the making of âJaws.â You know, the first major summer blockbuster that happens to […]
Thereâs been a lot of misinformation about Coloradoâs 2024 transit-oriented development law. Some claim it forces property owners to build things they donât want or mandates apartment complexes. Thatâs simply not true. The law does not dictate what gets built; it only requires cities to loosen restrictive zoning so that, if property owners and the […]
Itâs mid-September, and in Colorado that means itâs leaf peeping season, when the quaking aspens turn gold before going to sleep for the winter. While there have been a lot of news media reports that fall colors are turning early, that doesnât appear to be the case in the Pikes Peak region where there has […]
The El Paso County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 on Thursday to approve two electronic billboards along Highway 24 â one in Cascade, and one near Red Rock Canyon Open Space. The advocacy group Friends of Red Rock Canyon urged community members to oppose the electronic billboard. âWe are against this proposal, for many reasons, […]
Peak Auto is a fixture on the corner of W. Colorado Avenue and 18th Street. The two-bay independent auto repair shop has been around almost as long as its current owner, Jacob Cohen, has been alive. âItâs been here for 30 years,â Cohen told the Bulletin, adding, âActually, the building has been here for almost […]
Dear Mrs. Hughes, I am an 82-year-old woman who lives in assisted living. My house is unique in that there are only five residents and we are all women. We get a lot of individual attention, and it feels more like a home. It is actually in a house in a neighborhood. Previously, I lived […]
Last week, Otisâs BBQ owner Stephen Eshelman announced on social media that Sept. 10 would be his last day in Manitou Springs. Eshelmanâs restaurant started as a food truck on the El Colorado Lodge grounds, but moved to its current location in the summer of 2024. âThe issues that I have here is that thereâs […]
When I talk about the unhoused with people a common question is âwhy donât they get a job.â Actually 45% of those experiencing homelessness have at least one job (Check out the book âWhen We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in Americaâ). But the […]
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 […]
