On the morning of Friday, Feb 6., Associate Minister Josh Rumple arrived at First Congregational Church in downtown Colorado Springs and found the church’s rainbow banner reading “a just world for all” had been torn down. Again. Some variation of the banner has been hanging on the front of First Congregational since 2021, and since […]
A former employee of the nonprofit Colorado Springs Community Cultural Collective, Brian Parsons, has prevailed in a complaint filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE)’s Division of Labor Standards and Statistics. The Collective operated several workforce programs under the banner of Opus Creative Industries. Opus announced it would close on March 31, […]
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center is negotiating with state officials about whether it must return $828,371 in grant money after the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) deemed that amount had been spent on “disallowed” expenses by a nonprofit funded by the grant. The negotiations are part of a lawsuit filed by the Workforce […]
Following public comment during the Jan. 27 Colorado Springs City Council meeting decrying the lack of a Black History Month proclamation on that meeting’s agenda, a proclamation is on the agenda for the Council’s Feb. 10 meeting – but it’s not the proclamation drafted at the request of Councilor Kimberly Gold last month. The new […]
During this week’s Manitou Springs City Council Meeting, Council approved two new ordinances and considered an updated fee schedule. New ordinances Council approved an ordinance that establishes a cost recovery mechanism for emergency and non-emergency services provided by the Manitou Springs Fire Department in response to motor vehicle accidents. Manitou Springs Fire Department Chief Keith […]
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 King’s 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 council’s 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 Donelson’s 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 Lamberto’s husband, José 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 José […]
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 Good’s shooting […]
For nearly three weeks, Colorado Springs resident Marivel Azpeitia has been recording phone conversations with her fiancé, 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 week’s 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. “At 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. Norwood’s website states, “Sage 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 “Sidewalk Steve,” 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 “no child is born in the wrong body” and recording the responses he gets from passersby. According to a […]
An old proverb I heard as a child has stuck with me: “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” What happens when a news website dies? When the website containing the online archives of the Colorado Springs Independent – a progressive alt-weekly known affectionately as the Indy – went dark in […]
