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Newsweek’s Sarah Palin cover has everyone’s shorts in a bunch
NEW YORK • Of all the adjectives one might use to describe Newsweek’s current Sarah Palin cover, “unflattering” probably isn’t one of them. But Palin says the cover’s posed shot of her in running gear, including short black shorts — a photo originally taken for Runner’s World magazine — was out of context and sexist.…
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OUT THERE: Rockers all over the slopes this year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ski season is starting to pick up — which means it’s time to put away your rock skis and pick up some rocker skis. Rocker is the big buzzword in the ski industry this year.…
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Money for a new Helen Hunt Falls visitor center, but nobody to staff it
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This could be the house that beer built. At Helen Hunt Falls in North Cheyenne Cañon Park, the visitor center is in a leaky, rotting, mouse-infested 1916 squat log bunker that everyone agrees should be…
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Myers Road improvements exceed $2 million
The tab for improvements on a two-lane road in eastern El Paso County continues to rise. In response to a public records act request, county officials confirmed that they spent nearly $770,000 in 2008 to gravel a 13 mile stretch of Myers Road. The cost includes $177,000 in county workers’ salaries, $336,000 for equipment and…
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Obama, Hu vow cooperation but produce few deals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BEIJING • President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit Tuesday with scant progress…
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DINING REVIEW: A slice of rivalry
New York vs. Chicago.It is the classic rivalry when it comes to pizza.Sure, there are other regional contenders: San Francisco with its thin, crispy crust and zest for adding inventively weird toppings; New Haven, Conn., with its mozzarellaless but delicious tomato pies. But in Colorado Springs, The Big Apples’ floppy, foldy, flat slices dominate and,…
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2,100 vaccinated at county’s first H1N1 flu shot clinic
More than 2,100 people were vaccinated against H1N1 flu Wednesday at El Paso County’s first public clinic, with no one turned away and nearly 900 doses leftover. Months of planning paid off for the roughly 160 health department workers and volunteers in a day that saw few glitches. One worker mistakenly put out a “no…
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Free chicken is worth the wait for dozens of Chick-fil-A fans
What some people will do for a free chicken sandwich. More than a hundred chicken lovers camped out Wednesday at the new Chick-fil-A at 575 Garden of the Gods Road to score a year’s worth of free meals at the restaurant’s grand opening Thursday morning. Richard Coley went the extra mile for free food. Several…
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OUT THERE: iPhone apps put outdoors at your fingertips
There was a time when you might have hit the trail lugging a GPS receiver, a camera, an MP3 player, a map or two, a guide for birds and another for wildflowers (and maybe another for mammals), a star-gazing guide, a first-aid manual and, of course, a cell phone. Now, there’s an app for that.…
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Council orders furloughs for city workers next year
Colorado Springs city employees will have to take 10 days of unpaid furloughs next year to help erase a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, but they won’t have to shoulder across-the-board pay cuts. The furloughs, which won’t affect police officers, firefighters or other public-safety employees in supporting roles, were among the cost-saving measures approved by the City…