Author: Monica Mendoza

Deb Walker hopes that come April 7 Colorado Springs will rock its vote right from the kitchen table. “The hope is that an all-mail ballot election will improve voter turnout,” said Walker, acting director of the Citizens Project – a nonprofit that focuses on diversity, equality and civic engagement. “We are trying to get the…

Colorado Springs City Councilwoman Helen Collins, already the target of a recall election, is now facing an ethics complaint that alleges she participated in a real estate deal with tax-limitation author and convicted felon Douglas Bruce, which helped him avoid payment of a nearly $7,600 court judgment he owes the city. The complaint, brought against…

Joel Miller has been called divisive. But it’s not a term he shies from. He believes there are two political camps in Colorado Springs: one that he calls “go along to get along politicians” and one willing to question special interest groups. Miller has heard on the campaign trail that citizens are upset with the…

Mary Lou Makepeace hosted a series of roundtable discussions to talk with people about the issues important to them in Colorado Springs. She did that when she was mayor in 1997. And she did that in recent weeks after she announced her intention to run for mayor again. “I’m a very collaborative kind of person,”…

Southeast Colorado Springs resident Robert Blancken raised questions Monday about the recall petition against District 4 City Councilwoman Helen Collins, including whether people who collect signatures need to be registered voters. Some of the petition pages did not have proper headers, and some of the signatures didn’t have complete addresses including missing ZIP codes, he…

Amy Lathen came out guns blazing with ideas about how she would transform the Colorado Springs mayor’s office and local government. She would work to eliminate the business personal property tax; she would move the mayor’s office into City Hall for better communication with the City Council; and she would approach the city’s budget through…