Tag: views
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Developers taking crucial next steps for apartment high-rise planned in downtown Colorado Springs
Developers who’ve proposed a controversial 27-story, 300-foot tall apartment tower in downtown Colorado Springs submitted their project this week to city government planners — a key next step as they seek to construct what would become the Springs’ tallest-ever building. At the same time, the Colorado Springs City Council is expected to decide Tuesday whether to…
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Happy Trails: Scenic tour expands with new Colorado Springs trail
Bear Creek Regional Trail Dan Allen is a trail project specialist with the Colorado Springs parks department who recently finished building a new segment in Bear Creek Cañon Park. We were walking with him along that path, in the hills east of the popular Section 16 trailhead along Gold Camp Road. “I feel like there’s…
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A downtown view controversy 20 years ago stirred passions among Colorado Springs residents
Matt Mayberry, director of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, and Katharine Lee Bates, the poet and writer who authored “America the Beautiful” more than 130 years ago, have something in common. Both can see Pikes Peak thanks to a controversy more than two decades ago over the then-proposed expansion of the El Paso County courthouse…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado Springs needs police footage ASAP of man’s arrest before his death | Perspective
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Only because of a camera will we likely see justice in the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Cameras matter. Short of the nuanced details provided by raw footage, the public and investigators might reasonably excuse this as the tragic result of…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado Springs needs police footage ASAP of man’s arrest before his death | Perspective
Only because of a camera will we likely see justice in the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Cameras matter. Short of the nuanced details provided by raw footage, the public and investigators might reasonably excuse this as the tragic result of a difficult arrest in which police were in grave danger.…
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EDITORIAL: Travel bans are not ‘racist xenophobia’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Border control matters. It is part of putting the health and welfare of Americans first. Nothing makes this clearer than the international spread of the Coronavirus. President Donald Trump has long argued that uncontrolled immigration…
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EDITORIAL: Travel bans are not ‘racist xenophobia’
Border control matters. It is part of putting the health and welfare of Americans first. Nothing makes this clearer than the international spread of the Coronavirus. President Donald Trump has long argued that uncontrolled immigration brings disease into the United States. The American left cringes at the assertion. “He has long stoked fears that foreigners…
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EDITORIAL: Local officials taking steps to save more lives
Heading into 2020, Colorado should work toward a sustained decline in suicides and other catastrophic outcomes of mental health emergencies. Taking a big step in that direction, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office this week announced the expansion of its Behavioral Health Connect Unit (BHCON), which has saved lives since 2017. The program delivers a…
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PERSPECTIVE side: Prop CC at a glance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Prop CC, at a glance: Text of ballot measure: “Without raising taxes and to better fund public schools, higher education, and roads, bridges, and transit, within a balanced budget, may the state keep and spend…
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PERSPECTIVE side: Prop CC at a glance
Prop CC, at a glance: Text of ballot measure: “Without raising taxes and to better fund public schools, higher education, and roads, bridges, and transit, within a balanced budget, may the state keep and spend all the revenue it annually collects after June 30, 2019, but is not currently allowed to keep and spend under…