Author: Emily Wilkins
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Biden officials press Congress on chips bill as progress stalls
WASHINGTON • The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are trying to break a deadlock on legislation aimed at enhancing U.S. competitiveness with China and boosting the domestic semiconductor industry, which has been stalled since Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell threatened to scuttle the bill. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines…
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Hometown author says first novel has Springs-inspired characters
Even after she moved to New Mexico, residents of Colorado Springs provided inspiration for characters in Lisa Gray Fisher’s first novel. Fisher, a Colorado Springs native who graduated from Palmer High School, returns to her hometown Tuesday to promote and sign copies of her first novel, “Full Body Wag,” at Poor Richard’s Bookstore, 324 N.…
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YOGA: Locals bend with this trend
Once a fringe activity popular with hippies and low-impact-sports nuts, yoga has gone mainstream in the Pikes Peak region. And adherents say it’s creating a sense of community in an area known for its transient population. We have, it seems, collectively embraced yoga. We practice poses under the stars, in our parks and on our…
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Hometown author says first novel has Springs-inspired characters
Even after she moved to New Mexico, residents of Colorado Springs provided inspiration for characters in Lisa Gray Fisher’s first novel. Fisher, a Colorado Springs native who graduated from Palmer High School, returns to her hometown Tuesday to promote and sign copies of her first novel, “Full Body Wag,” at Poor Richard’s Bookstore, 324 N.…
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Church rises from ‘ashes’ of old Syn nightclub
They sat in plastic chairs amid the sawdust and unfinished floorboards, chipped paint and bare plaster. All were in their Sunday best, about 200 people listening to the first prayer said in the new home of St. George’s Anglican Church. “Drive from this place those demons that have possessed its inhabitants,” boomed the voice of…
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Proposal to make Memorial a nonprofit a step closer to ballot
A City Council task force has moved one step closer to finalizing a ballot proposal to turn city-owned Memorial Health System into an independent enterprise managed by a nonprofit. On Friday, the group decided several basic points for the ballot, and discussed its language. City Attorney Pat Kelley will present the task force with three…
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Class in Springs gives boost to Nigerian’s business plan
Since he moved to the U.S. in 2003, Babajide Shittu, 30, has gotten married, had kids and gone to college. But he has never forgotten about his home country of Nigeria. Nor has he forgotten about that country’s nightmare system of roads. In large cities like Lagos, paved streets are not maintained and many bus…
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Man in no hurry to meet grizzly that attacked him
More than three years after his brush with a grizzly bear, the only visible marks on Steven Bartley’s body are a few white scars stretching across his tanned hands. Less visible is the fear. The attack was brief, but it took months before Bartley could go camping in a tent again, even if the tent…
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Mayor tries to calm residents’ fears after violent night
Four killings in one night can frighten even those not easily scared. Colorado Springs resident awoke Thursday to find out there had been three unrelated shootings in less than three hours late Wednesday that left four people dead, including three teenagers, and two people wounded. One of those wounded remained in critical condition and the…
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Former Springs cop had 22 victims, prosecutors allege
A former Colorado Springs police officer facing allegations of abusing children is now accused of sexually assaulting 22 victims — up from six. Prosecutors added new victims and more than doubled the felony sex assault counts against Joshua Carrier, 30, at a Tuesday hearing in 4th Judicial District Court, raising the the number of charges…