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EDITORIAL: This Christmas, we can overwhelm evil with good
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
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: Other Space Command finalists pose big risks
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 how incessantly politicians try to take it from Colorado. To move the command, the Pentagon would abandon billions of dollars…
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EDITORIAL: US can’t leave the WHO fast enough
President Donald Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. All we can say is that it’s about time. The organization’s legitimacy as a body looking out for humanity’s well-being has been effectively reduced to zero. Just as the U.S. with the United Nations’s Human Rights Council, a shambolic body that gives cover…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t waste the summer; let’s get on with our lives
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 common-sense measures to prevent another outbreak. Colorado consistently ranks among the top two or three healthiest states in the country…
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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…
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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.…