The City of Colorado Springs is looking to dissolve the Westside Community Center Working Committee, which has worked with the City to lead the community space since 2021. In 2020, Woodmen Valley Chapel’s Center for Strategic Ministry, the former operator since 2010, told the city they would not be renewing their contract past 2021. In […]
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 City’s excise tax on ticket sales and admission fees from 5% to up to 14%. The proposed tax increase would impact just a handful […]
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 – 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. “Halftime is when coaches and analysts will step back and look at the first half,” said Mobolade, wearing a Notre Dame football jersey. “They 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 Education’s 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 […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance rose to national prominence with his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” and the book’s film adaptation in which Vance’s personal experience of the opioid epidemic figured heavily. In 2016, he wrote in The Atlantic Magazine, “Shortly 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 “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” addresses homelessness and associated “public safety threats” 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. “The primary reason we need to do this is the Mountain Metro bus schedule is changing Sept. 28,” said John Crawford, Manitou’s Mobility and Parking Director. “The Route 33 will begin serving the Dillon and no longer stopping at Hiawatha, so the demand […]
It’s mid-September, and in Colorado that means it’s 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 doesn’t appear to be the case in the Pikes Peak region where there has […]
The news out of Evergreen is heartbreaking. My thoughts are with the students, families, and staff impacted by this horrific shooting. No child should have to run from gunfire on their way to class. No parent should have to wait in fear to find out if their child is safe. Let me be clear: this […]
The El Paso County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 on Thursday to approve two electronic billboards along Highway 24 – 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. “We are against this proposal, for many reasons, […]
Last week, Otis’s BBQ owner Stephen Eshelman announced on social media that Sept. 10 would be his last day in Manitou Springs. Eshelman’s restaurant started as a food truck on the El Colorado Lodge grounds, but moved to its current location in the summer of 2024. “The issues that I have here is that there’s […]
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 […]
Kaylinn (last name withheld for privacy) said she was in her home near the intersection of Platte Avenue and Cedar Street around noon on Friday, Aug. 22 when she saw several masked men surrounding a silver four-door car. She left her home and walked toward the scene. She watched and then started recording as a […]
On Aug. 12, Colorado Springs resident Nico (last name withheld for privacy) vented in a Facebook post about how code enforcement for the City of Colorado Springs had told him to tear out a garden he’d worked hard to cultivate over the summer due to a neighbor’s complaint. He planted the garden in the strip […]
This week, Manitou Springs City Council unanimously approved an ordinance submitting a ballot issue to voters of Manitou Springs for the City’s Nov. 4 regular election to increase the City’s excise tax on ticket sales and admission fees. This ballot question is part of the “balanced approach” plan for addressing the City’s projected $4.3 million […]
Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to divide the $1.4 million that the City expects to reap from taxes on recreational marijuana sales between the Clean & Safe pilot program, which will target public safety, homelessness and cleanliness in the downtown area, and treatment programs for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. But the […]
Last week, the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education unanimously approved a $500,000 request for proposal (RFP) to hire a strategic communications firm. “We’re asking for the authority to explore this opportunity,” said D11 Superintendent Michael Gaal during the Aug. 6 board meeting. “If you give us this guidance tonight, that gives us […]
On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” “Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe,” the order states, citing rising rates of homelessness and tying the issue to mental health and substance use disorders. The executive order proposes […]
The Manitou Springs City Council held its regular meeting on Aug. 5. Excise tax ordinance heads to ballot Manitou Springs City Council approved an ordinance submitting a ballot issue to the voters of Manitou Springs for the City’s Nov. 4 regular election to increase the City’s excise tax on ticket sales and admission fees. This […]
