Author: John Schroyer

Colorado Springs isn’t just on the national map — it’s on the international map. The British Broadcasting Corporation chose Colorado Springs over Denver for its Colorado Election Day headquarters and will be reporting on the 2012 presidential race from Tejon Street downtown. “We wanted to get out of the big city, and be somewhere interesting,”…

This November, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights turns 20 years old.TABOR, as it is commonly called, is beloved by those who want to limit government. Its various provisions are broad and arcane, but the most well-known one — which many citizens love — prohibits Colorado governments, from the state on down to school districts, from…

About 30 local Democrats, gathered at the Springs Orleans restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs, watched the presidential debate on MSNBC. Meanwhile, about the same number of local Republicans met at the county party GOP headquarters to watch on Fox News. But the moods couldn’t have been much different. The Republicans yelled, laughed and scoffed loudly…

One of President Barack Obama’s highest-ranking female appointees stopped in Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon to energize Democratic women who, for the most part, didn’t really need energizing. The federal Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, told a gathering of about 60 women (and a few men) that women’s rights would be in…

Colorado’s status as a swing state is becoming clearer and clearer with each passing day.Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential candidate, made his umpteenth trip to Colorado Springs on Sunday, and he’s hitting three more Colorado cities on Monday.On top of that, he and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are appearing together at the…

Colorado Springs residents will have yet another chance to see Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan in person on Sunday afternoon, when he’ll hold a rally at the Colorado Springs Municipal Airport.This is the latest in a string of appearances he’s made in Colorado Springs. The last one was in late September, when he spoke…

In an interview with The Gazette on Saturday, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defended President Barack Obama’s handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, and said the issue has been “turned into a political football.” The attack on the compound, which was located in the city of Benghazi,…

Craig Romney lit up the headquarters of the county Republican Party Thursday afternoon when he stopped in to tell volunteers about his father, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. His father is “a man of tremendous character and integrity,” Craig Romney told about 40 volunteers and supporters, many of whom paused in making campaign phone calls…