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The Voter ID Controversy: Real Or Memorex?

By | 02.11.08 | 10:00 am

Proposals to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote and to show government-issued photo identification before being allowed to vote were declared dead on arrival last week in the legislature. Despite the lack of any proof of voter fraud

El Paso County GOP Renews Its Ethics Warning

By | 10.21.07 | 2:41 pm

The El Paso County Republican Party has renewed its warning that candidates must be honest and respectful and operate with integrity – or face unspecified “action” from leadership. In addition, candidates and their supporters will be held accountable for “conduct

Peevish Attack Underscores Election Woes

By | 09.18.07 | 4:20 pm

The notice, sent out by the El Paso County election office, was downright peevish.

“In a last minute decision the City of Colorado Springs notified [us] that it will not be participating in the November 6, 2007 Coordinated Election,”…

Coming Out Of The Stone Age

By | 08.19.07 | 12:13 pm

Only in Colorado Springs, it seems, a festival designed to celebrate diversity is destined to run into trouble. First was the concern, expressed by several city council members, that gays and lesbians might come.

And last week a…

‘Damning, Disrespectful, Downright Hateful’

By | 08.15.07 | 2:16 pm

So the Colorado Springs Gazette publishes a report about how the highly respected McMaster Center for Drug and Alcohol, which provides treatment to low-income pregnant women, is abandoning the program.

According to the story, the 37-year old, county-run…

Where Diversity Doesn’t Include Gays

By | 04.13.07 | 2:51 pm

Colorado Springs is the state’s second largest city. It has a longtime and widespread reputation of being, to put it delicately, diversity-challenged. And two members of the city council have once again cranked up the anti-gay rhetoric.

The debate…

Rivera: Mayor For Four More

By | 04.04.07 | 1:42 pm

Lionel Rivera has easily landed a second term as Mayor of Colorado Springs.

That Rivera won the all-mail ballot election, with more than 59 percent of the vote, was widely anticipated. The remaining votes were split between his…

Douglas Bruce: 500-Pound Guerilla

By | 10.20.06 | 5:23 pm

The bombastic Douglas Bruce, he of Colorado anti-tax infamy, has carved a long career of dressing down officials with insults, tirades and nasty name-calling. But this week Bruce himself became a very public punching bag -