Author: DEBBIE KELLEY
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Tri-Lakes Cares gets OK to proceed with land purchase to build new center
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MONUMENT • Monument’s Planning Commission and Town Council both have unanimously approved a reconfiguration of property that Lewis-Palmer School District 38 wants to sell, which gives the go-ahead for a local social services organization to proceed with a bid to acquire 2.8 acres of vacant land to build a new headquarters. “We are currently in…
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New course in Colorado Springs D-11 focuses on ethics in journalism paired with hands-on media training
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With longstanding principles of objectivity, truth and fairness in news reporting up for debate in recent years, a homegrown Career and Technical Education course launching in Colorado Springs School District 11 for the fall semester will explore such topics under an overarching theme of “ethics in journalism.” So while juniors and seniors receive real-world training…
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Section 8 woes: Colorado Springs residents frustrated with Housing Authority over eviction, voucher delays
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Some Colorado Springs residents claim the government system that provides federally subsidized housing vouchers to help people pay their rent and prevent homelessness instead is causing them to become homeless. And early sunsetting of COVID-era emergency housing vouchers due to the $5 billion pot running out of money is resulting in additional grievances from some low-income…
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Two immigrants paths merge in a volatile relationship ending in murder
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In the dark, early-morning hours of May 16, 2024, Esmeralda Contreras Mata endured a horrific death at the hands of the father of her three youngest children. Thabiso Makhafola, 31, raped and beat Mata, 25, before bludgeoning her with a hatchet and leaving her to die in the house they shared in Security-Widefield, according to…
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Focus on the Family responds after SPLC adds it to hate group list
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Initial reaction after finding out that Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family made the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate and anti-government extremist” groups for the first time was a tongue-in-cheek, “What took them so long?” “Since Focus’ inception 48 years ago in 1977, we’ve had the same six guiding principles that adhere to…
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Center for Employment Opportunities: Overcoming stigma of criminal records
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Getting a job if you have a criminal record — for people who have been incarcerated, are on parole or probation, or recently released from judicial oversight — can be like trying to remount a skittish, bucking horse. Sometimes you make it through the application process with an offer for a position, say clients at the…
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Drought threatens Colorado River hydropower, major source of renewable energy
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PAGE, ARIZ. • Soulful notes from a Native American flute float over the vast valley on the backside of the Glen Canyon Dam, which interrupts the once mighty Colorado River. At the tourist overlook, a teen — his phone in hand, playing the music — hops from one phyllo-layered sandstone outcropping to another, where river, rock…
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Special-needs students are college-bound: UCCS graduates first class in May
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Ashley Mabry, who looks forward to family game night, sometimes watches TV and loves her internship at the ARC Pikes Peak Region, knew she wanted to go to college since the fourth grade, when she entered a “talent development” program at Hilltop Baptist School in Colorado Springs. “She learned to believe in herself,” said her…