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What a bear! Gazette publisher grapples with Colorado Springs homelessness

By | 01.19.10 | 11:39 am

In Vail, where Colorado Springs Gazette publisher Steve Pope once published the Vail Daily, homelessness merely referred to ski bums evicted for hosting too many keggers and couch surfing until they landed another condo.

Apparently shocked to encounter actual homelessness…

Stop The Presses! White Men Rule!

By | 02.24.08 | 12:48 pm

The lead in a lead story in the Colorado Springs Gazette this weekend is pretty
straightforward:
“White men wield outsized influence in Colorado Springs.”

Online Louts Banished From The Gazette

By | 11.10.07 | 11:33 am

The raunch parade is over at the Colorado Springs Gazette. This week the editor of the state’s third largest daily newspaper put the kibosh on anonymous stink bombs going off in the comments section of the online newspaper – which

The New G: Marx Would Be Proud

By | 08.20.07 | 6:30 pm

Now here’s something you don’t see every day – the conservative Colorado Springs Gazette accused of being a socialist rag.

Sure we’re used to reading about how the Gazette‘s editorial page editor likes to eat rare silverback mountain

‘A New, More Powerful Story: The Truth’

By | 07.14.07 | 6:10 pm

After months of hearing about and talking to colleagues about and writing about major cutbacks and layoffs occuring in newsrooms across Colorado and the country – and hearing the standard line from the suits upstairs about how this

Gazette to Ritter: Stop Flirting With Ben & Jerry

By | 02.28.07 | 3:44 pm

Most folks thought it was an amusing and harmless enough anecdote about how Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter went to Washington and vowed to arm wrestle the new governor of Massachusetts for energy jobs.

But Ritter’s speech, to a…

The Gazette’s Blank Hole

By | 02.24.07 | 1:21 pm

Call the  Gazette rude. Call the Gazette petty and disrespectful. But whatever you do, don’t call the Gazette bipartisan. That would be a real slap in the face to the no-Democrat-is-a-good-Democrat folks in charge of the op/ed pages at the…

By | 01.15.07 | 11:13 am

Here now is Sean Paige, editorial page editor of the conservative Colorado Springs Gazette, former personal aide to John Sununu, press secretary for Alan Keyes and Washington Times staffer, “congratulating,” as only he can, Denver landing the Democratic National…

Feeding Frenzy At the Gazette Blog

By | 11.04.06 | 4:17 pm

Bloggers have had a field day weighing in on the unfolding scandal in Pastor Ted Haggard’s hometown daily newspaper. In what undoubtedly marks some kid of record, yesterday alone more than 500 posters anonymously weighed in their thoughts about…