Editor’s note: Learn about Colorado Springs Utilities’ timeline and process as it explores potential updates to its Net Metering Program for residential solar customers, including its Net Metering Newsletter. To the editor: Colorado Springs Utilities is currently developing a rooftop solar customer rate case. Rooftop solar owners have made significant financial investments in energy generation […]
This letter is in response to “Data centers come knocking. Are local power and water supplies available?” Dear Editor, I wanted to write in response to Pam Zubeck’s excellent (as always) reporting from March 14. As tech corporations continue their expansion across the country, Colorado Springs should not make the mistake of welcoming large-scale data […]
Editor’s note The Pikes Peak Bulletin received a letter this week from Kandy Lewis, a resident of Greenway Flats – a 4-story, 65-unit apartment building that provides permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless in Colorado Springs, run by the Springs Rescue Mission (SRM). We can’t independently confirm everything in this letter, but we did […]
I am writing in response to the article in the Pikes Peak Bulletin dated March 3, 2026 called “Utilities CEO says ‘Gloves will come off’ if Senate bill doesn’t delay closing Nixon coal plant.” As a Colorado Springs ratepayer, I am extremely disappointed in not only Colorado Springs Utilities’ lack of preparation to comply with […]
Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) requested SB 26-022 to delay the closure of the Nixon Coal power plant beyond the promised closing date of 2029. In 2020, it made a commitment to retire the plant by the end of 2029, a target it failed to achieve and had no plan to achieve. CSU should not be […]
Letter to the Editor: Today, Feb. 24, 2026, the Colorado Springs City Council passed an ordinance consolidating City Code language to treat all camping – whether along a creek, in a park, or in a vehicle – as the same offense. First introduced by Councilmember Dave Donelson in 2025, this measure was delayed six months […]
The Pikes Peak Bulletin received more than a half-dozen letters to the editor in favor of the original Ray Nixon Power Plant closure date. For background, read Colorado Springs seeks bill to keep Ray Nixon coal plant open past 2029 closure deadline in The Colorado Sun and Colorado Springs Utilities enlists state lawmakers to keep […]
This letter is a response to The Gazette’s Dec. 4 editorial “Handouts won’t help Springs homeless.” Dear Pikes Peak Bulletin, First and foremost there is no cookie cutter solution for homelessness. Every individual has different needs. Not every unhoused person has mental health issues or struggles with drug addiction. So people should not be stereotyped. […]
Editor’s note: For background, read our Oct. 9 article “City of Colorado Springs to dissolve Westside Community Center Working Committee.” On the Westside, we value community involvement and volunteerism. We believe people should have a say in the public spaces that serve them. That’s why the proposed dissolution of the Westside Community Center Working Committee […]
Editor’s note On Monday, Nov. 10, the Colorado Springs City Council will consider a proposed ordinance amending current city code around public camping – including imposing penalties for vehicle camping in the same location for more than 24 hours. The Pikes Peak Bulletin reached out to sponsors of this agenda item — City Council member […]
Dear Editor, As a proud member of this community, I’m urging my neighbors to vote YES on the upcoming school bond, Ballot Issue 4C. This is our opportunity to make a smart, forward-looking investment in our schools – and in the future of our town. Manitou Springs has a proud history of achieving great things. […]
A common reason I hear about why people are homeless is because they are “druggies.” The severe mental illness rate amongst the longterm unhoused is around 30% and about half of those have a substance use disorder. Interestingly, 5.6% of the entire U.S. population will meet the criteria for a severe mental health disorder at […]
[Editor’s note: This letter was first submitted to The Gazette; the paper declined it citing concern over “several allegations.” In his letter, Weiss notes The Gazette’s failure to disclose a conflict of interest in an editorial it ran on Ballot Issue 2A. An editor’s note on the Bulletin’s stance on disclosures and taking ownership of […]
There are less than 5,000 residents in Manitou Springs. That includes adults and children. A certain percentage of those residents own homes there. They are being asked to allow the school district to take on $37.6 million dollars of debt for school improvements. District property taxes, by means of the mill levy, would be increased […]
When I speak up for free and healthy school meals for all kids, it’s not politics for me. It’s personal. I was that kid. The one who sometimes had to drink water to fill her stomach because lunch money wasn’t always there. My mom was a hard-working woman who did her very best, but life […]
No SNAP benefits in November. Just let that sink in. For millions of families, that headline isn’t just news – it’s survival being pulled out from under them. SNAP is what keeps food on the table for kids, parents, and seniors when times are already hard. And now, with the government shutdown stretching on, those […]
I want the kids in our community to thrive. As a board member at Citizens Project, proud auntie, and a once free and reduced lunch recipient, I know a meal can make a world of difference. Being raised by a single mom who worked as a hairstylist in Colorado Springs, I saw firsthand how a […]
To the voters of Manitou Springs, I am a proud graduate of Manitou Springs High School in 1990. The experience and opportunities that I had at a small school were so rewarding that I chose to have both of my children attend the school district and graduate from the high school as well. I am […]
To the editor: I’m asking for support for 2A – the Manitou Springs ballot issue asking for voters to let City Council raise the Excise (Amusement) Tax – “Vote ‘Yes’ on 2A.” The opponents are well financed and well organized. You have likely seen signs and mailers and Facebook has had quite a bit of […]
Letter to the Editor: Show up to make an impact
As an active member of the Colorado Springs community I am enraged. Graduating from Harrison School District 2 is probably the most significantly positive foundation my life could have stood on. Maybe I didn’t read all of the classic novels, or learn advanced calculus (the District was in a deep time of transition and let’s […]