Author: Conrad Swanson

An out-of-state group of all-female filmmakers is volunteering for Stephany Spaulding’s uphill race to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in Colorado’s conservative 5th Congressional District. The group, Los Angeles-based political action committee One Vote At A Time, partially looks to the success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for inspiration, executive producer Mara Tasker said. Ocasio-Cortez, a…

The U.S. Olympic Training Center brought race walker Carl Schueler to Colorado Springs in the early 1980s. Flexible employers kept him here. “I wanted to work. Frankly, I needed to work,” said Schueler, now the city’s comprehensive planning manager. “I started back in 1983 and haven’t left. A job did not get me here, but…

Colorado Springs officials are asking for an additional $300,000 this year for new hires needed to bring the city into compliance with the 28-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act. Those standards have bedeviled the city for decades. Six months ago, a Colorado Springs veteran and his wife sued the city, a local homeowners association and a…

A controversial sports and events center that 1½ years ago was deemed all but dead now is set to go, split between two downtown locations, Colorado Springs officials announced. A 10,000-seat outdoor stadium for the Switchbacks minor league soccer team will be at CityGate, a vacant block southwest of Cimarron and Sahwatch streets, said Nick…

Holding true to a promise their president made this spring, the Colorado Springs City Council will vote next month whether to place a collective bargaining question on next year’s ballot for city firefighters. Whether a majority of the council will support it is another issue, though. Council President Richard Skorman promised the Professional Firefighters Association,…

COLORADO SPRINGS – When President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in Finland, he should hold the foreign leader accountable for his country’s destructive and illegal behavior, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Friday. The Colorado Republican was in Colorado Springs with GOP gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton, one of several stops they made…

COLORADO SPRINGS – Party lines will be drawn along Tejon and Kiowa streets Friday afternoon when top Colorado Republicans arrive at the El Paso County Republican Party headquarters. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton will meet and greet constituents at 3 p.m. for an invitation-only event at the local GOP office, 31…

COLORADO SPRINGS – The Colorado Springs City Council recently approved a $160,000 settlement to an Army veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress after he was rousted from his home by a tactical police team, tear gas and explosives. The team’s midnight blast in May 2012 shattered every window in Ronald Brown’s home in southeast Colorado Springs,…