Author: Stephanie Earls
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Colorado hit a population milestone in 2025; numbers ‘don’t lie,’ but what do they say?
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Colorado is: full Standing room only How ‘bout, More crowded than it was but less crowded than we thought? Local takeaways from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent data drop are too complex for bumper sticker treatment, but here’s the banner in a nutshell: During a year in which the U.S. population growth rate slowed…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
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With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Lost cat sends Denver-area couple down rabbit hole of hope, heartbreak
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In the waning hours of Oct. 4, a three-legged house cat named Bambi slipped out the front door of her suburban Denver home and disappeared into the night. What ensued was a frenetic two-week odyssey for the owners, desperate and willing to do anything to find her, and a dark primer on the lengths some…
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Colorado Springs Christian bookstore sues state over ‘gender expression’ protections
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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…
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Tariffs turmoil: Uncertainty, higher prices, the new norm across Colorado outdoor industries
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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…
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After recent years of reform, vets fear Trump cuts to VA will undo lifeline health care, research
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When beloved Colorado Springs mental health counselor Michael Sunich died in March 2024, dozens of his patients — veterans who knew their “doc” had continued to treat them, even when the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to pay — faced the return to a complex system with a history of falling short of promises. Army…
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El Paso County recreational marijuana shops reflect on Colorado Springs openings
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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…
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Colorado GOP moves annual fundraising dinner featuring Steve Bannon after Colorado Springs hotel cancels event
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The Colorado Republican Party was left scrambling, looking for a new location for its annual fundraising dinner after The Antlers in downtown Colorado Springs on Monday abruptly canceled the March 28 event featuring keynote speaker Steve Bannon, a former top Trump adviser, in response to an online uproar the party blamed on “radical leftists.” By…
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Colorado Springs could feel outsized hit from federal workforce exodus
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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…
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What’s next after Trump’s gender executive order? Colorado Springs counselor, Focus on the Family speak out
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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…
