Author: Stephanie Earls

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of a Christian bookstore in Colorado Springs is pushing back against recent legislation that expanded protections for LGBTQ+ people in the state. Signed into law in May by Gov. Jared Polis, the Kelly Loving Act made the intentional, public misgendering or “deadnaming” of a transgender person a violation…

After more than a decade as a successful entrepreneur, Steve Kaczmarek had a sense for the kinetics of commerce — that invisible web of diplomacy, dollars and demand behind just about every transaction on the planet. Call it gut GPS. He listened, in 2013, when his instincts told him to take his garage-born hobby — Borealis…

Dino Salvatori does not partake in that which he peddles at Palmer Lake’s Dead Flowers, but he’s nonetheless a devoted promoter of weed, and rock ‘n’ roll, from his stage in the tiny town northwest of Colorado Springs, where sales of recreational marijuana have been legal since 2023. No gas station, no grocery store, but…

President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce could have a disproportionate impact in El Paso County, where the population of civilian government employees is almost double the national average. As questions about how the epic downsizing continue to swirl — around water coolers, and in the courts — economic and labor experts say…

Millions of Americans awoke last Tuesday to a nation that no longer recognizes their chosen identity on official documents. With the scrawl of a pen on his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump made good on a campaign promise to roll back protections and social and policy advancements for transgender, nonbinary…