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EDITORIAL: Celebrate heroes who shoot the bad guys
During a maniac’s shooting spree Monday in the Denver metro area, Lakewood Police Officer Ashley Ferris risked her life to save others. She took at least one bullet and is expected to survive. God only knows how many lives she spared by putting herself on the brink of death. It reminds us of another great…
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EDITORIAL: More local control may hedge against oppression
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “All politics is local,” implored former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Town leaders in Monument, a bedroom community for Denver and Colorado Springs, don’t want to lose businesses to the state’s on-again-off-again COVID-19 shutdowns. In Monument, when a business owner struggles or goes…
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EDITORIAL: This Christmas, we can overwhelm evil with good
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This will be a Christmas unlike any we have known, with fewer large family gatherings and crowded worship services. Under any condition, it is no less the day 2.2 billion people — more than a quarter of the world’s population — celebrate the birth of…
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EDITORIAL: Other Space Command finalists pose big risks
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Space Command thrives in Colorado Springs. It operates in a perfect ecosystem that combines a qualified workforce, proximity to supporting entities, public safety, transportation and community support. A better environment is not possible, no matter…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t waste the summer; let’s get on with our lives
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Welcome to the weekend; spend it outside. The number of new coronavirus cases in El Paso County and the rest of Colorado remains in steady decline. It is time to start living again while taking…
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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…