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Off with their heads. That’s the Colorado Springs City Council’s reaction to the Memorial Health System’s board of directors’ decision to give CEO Larry McEvoy a $1.15 million severance package. Under McEvoy’s initial contract, he was to have received $335,000 upon his departure. Under a general outline signed off on by the Memorial board, McEvoy…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Read the e-mail too quickly and you think you’re being invited to a black tie party. As it turns out, there’s a Rocky Mountain Black Tea Party that is sponsoring a forum for El Paso…

Read the e-mail too quickly and you think you’re being invited to a black tie party. As it turns out, there’s a Rocky Mountain Black Tea Party that is sponsoring a forum for El Paso County Commission candidates on March 30. Because the Republican county assembly is March 24, it’s possible there won’t be any…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Never bring a briefcase to a knife fight, and never bring a knife to a gunfight. In election years around here there is a traditional political gunfight sponsored by the Pike Peak Firearms Coalition. In…

Never bring a briefcase to a knife fight, and never bring a knife to a gunfight. In election years around here there is a traditional political gunfight sponsored by the Pike Peak Firearms Coalition. In the saber-rattling Republican Party, this is an event no serious candidate can afford to miss — a golden opportunity to…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Matt Seay got a lot out of his four years at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and the first thing he did when he graduated and got a job was to give something back. Seay,…

Matt Seay got a lot out of his four years at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and the first thing he did when he graduated and got a job was to give something back. Seay, now a fiscal analyst for Lockheed Martin, is one of 1,100 students to have received need-based scholarships at UCCS in…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Transparency in government is a great and rare thing. It’s rare enough that it’s unmistakable to journalists who usually have to cultivate sources and find alternative routes to information because the powers-that-be are constantly erecting…

Transparency in government is a great and rare thing. It’s rare enough that it’s unmistakable to journalists who usually have to cultivate sources and find alternative routes to information because the powers-that-be are constantly erecting barriers to it. Oh yeah, we know when someone is being transparent. That’s why it’s so easy to see that…

The Cadet Chapel is arguably the most identifiable structure at the Air Force Academy, but if the institution was being built today for the first time, that probably wouldn’t be the case. For years, AFA has been scrutinized on diversity issues — especially issues concerning religious discrimination — and it has been criticized far and…