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Regarding our FORMER trash service We switched our trash service to a new company the other day. Though our relationship is young, and our future together uncertain, it’s starting off right. We ended our agreement with our former trash service early because: FIRST, for a couple of years, I’ve witnessed them mix recycle with garbage…

In search of plant-based restaurant meals Colorado Springs is a city that seems to offer everything, whether your passion is for outdoor sports, world-class art or endless sunny weather. But the one thing the Springs doesn’t offer is a variety of restaurants serving plant-based menu items. This is perplexing to me and makes me wonder…

Vote yes for 1A, 2C and 2D Why should we pass these three items on the Colorado Springs ballot? Because the benefits from passing them far outpace the small amount they will cost us. The pandemic has shown how important it is to get outside and take advantage of the beautiful parks and trails throughout…

Here’s update on a popular topic broached in this space several weeks ago. We asked for readers’ opinions about a Colorado Springs neighborhood kickball game in the street that was “shut down” by police after some neighbors complained (“What’s Your Take On … Neighborhood street games,” Aug. 25). We received quite a few responses –…

Re: Oct. 6 “From the Editor: In defense of banned books” The American Declaration of Independence gives the principle the “consent of the governed.” School boards, superintendents and teachers are funded by the taxpayers. The taxpayers have the right to demand to know what a school district teaches and what books it makes available as…

Re: Aug. 31 article “Sculpting history”  I enjoyed reading the article “Sculpting history: The story behind the Tuskegee Airman statue at the Air Force Academy, as told by Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers (Part 1 of 3),” but I take exception to one point stated in the article. That the “Tuskegee Experiment was a racist…

Have you asked, ‘What is the science that this will work?’ It is a scientific truism that one clean experiment outweighs 1,000 dirty calculations. At the July 22, Academy District 20 Board of Education meeting in the public comment period, I heard more science with regard to the wearing of masks than I have read…

Recently we asked for readers’ opinions about a neighborhood kickball game in the street that was “shut down” by police after some neighbors complained (“What’s Your Take On … Neighborhood street games,” Aug. 25). Below are some of the responses we received. (Please note that we do not typically run opinions from sources who wish…

For four years, residents of a Colorado Springs neighborhood enjoyed a weekly summertime pickup game of kickball … until other neighbors called the police. Gazette reporter Debbie Kelley wrote about a weekly evening kickball game being shut down by police earlier this month (“CSPD shuts down street kickball game in Old North End, says activity…