Author: Andrew Wineke
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Gains made as destruction tallied
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Majestic Drive, block after block of homes were leveled by Tuesday’s firestorm. Water streamed from broken and melted pipes. Burned-out cars sat in driveways, and smoke curled from Blodgett Peak to the north. Here,…
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Gains made as destruction tallied
On Majestic Drive, block after block of homes were leveled by Tuesday’s firestorm. Water streamed from broken and melted pipes. Burned-out cars sat in driveways, and smoke curled from Blodgett Peak to the north. Here, President Barack Obama stopped Friday to shake firefighters’ hands and see the devastation wreaked on the Mountain Shadows neighborhood. Obama…
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Obama tours devastation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Air Force One landed just after noon Friday at the Colorado Springs Airport, and President Barack Obama stepped off, shaking hands and giving a pat on the shoulder to Jerri Marr, forest supervisor for the…
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Oil drilling brings opportunities for local companies
Drilling a single oil well requires millions of dollars of equipment, labor and chemicals, millions of gallons of water and hundreds of truck trips to deliver and later remove all of the above. For the past year, Colorado Springs and El Paso County have been wrestling with the regulatory and policy questions raised by the…
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Obama tours devastation
Air Force One landed just after noon Friday at the Colorado Springs Airport, and President Barack Obama stepped off, shaking hands and giving a pat on the shoulder to Jerri Marr, forest supervisor for the Pike and San Isabel National Forests, and Rich Harvey, incident commander for the Waldo Canyon fire. Marr and Harvey have…
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Local health leaders weigh in on Obamacare decision
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has a national impact, much of the job of implementing the law and charting a path for the future of…
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Local health leaders weigh in on Obamacare decision
While the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has a national impact, much of the job of implementing the law and charting a path for the future of health care will fall to hospitals and providers at a local level. The Gazette asked several Colorado Springs health leaders…
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Weary, worried City Council turns from fire to hospital’s future
A special 10 a.m. Wednesday meeting of the Colorado Springs City Council to approve plans to lease Memorial Health System to University of Colorado Health offered a surreal tableau: Two council members didn’t know if their homes were still standing, five had been evacuated, and Councilman Tim Leigh had to leave the meeting before votes…
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Evacuees get brief time to come back
When city officials announced Tuesday morning that evacuated Mountain Shadows residents could return for a half-hour to collect belongings, Angela Morgan didn’t wait. With friends Bex Becker and Jan Stone, who herself had to evacuate from Green Mountain Falls on Saturday, Morgan headed home. She had a list of what she needed to gather: artwork,…
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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Progress made but danger still smolders
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Firefighters checked fierce winds and high temperatures with airplanes, helicopters and bulldozers as they made headway against the still-growing Waldo Canyon fire on Monday. At 4 p.m. Monday, the fire was estimated to have grown…