State Vibe :: Colorado

This is a letter to the editor that will appear in Thursday's Gazette:   Barry Noreen was right to call me out for using material from a speech by John Bolton in a talk I gave at Newsapalooza.  It was wrong for me to do so without giving Mr. ...

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Eat. Eat. Eat. Shop. Shop. Shop. No work. No school. Those 10 words sum up Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday plans for many people. Maybe your family does something totally different. Tell us about your unique tradition for a Gazette ...

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El Paso County is plowing new ground. The county is about to embark upon an experiment to see if private contractors can do a better job of removing snow from the streets than its own aging fleet. The ‘guinea pig’ will be Cimarron Hills, ...

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A little house Santa Claus uses to meet and greet kids after a Woodland Park Christmas parade was taken, but when the perpetrator learned what he had, he came forward to return it. The dis-assembled house was swiped overnight from a ...

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Miracle Meters are on the move. The alternative-to-panhandling program, the brainchild of former City Councilman Jerry Heimlicher, has evolved into a community-wide volunteer project that launches this week, after two years of planning. Local ...

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Colorado Springs police officers and firefighters, largely shielded from the proposed 2010 budget cuts, may have to take unpaid days off next year, too. The City Council is now considering a proposal to reduce the number of paid holidays for ...

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There’s a lot of want and need this holiday season, but will there be enough “have” to go around? Citing an estimated 22,000 children living in poverty in El Paso County, local nonprofits that help the needy have started appealing to ...

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