Author: The Colorado Springs Gazette
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Editorial: On Earth Day, celebrate fossil fuels
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We love Mother Earth and look forward to Earth Day, April 22. These are exciting times for energy, as innovation improves the conversion of wind, solar and geothermal heat into power for our offices, homes and electric cars. Our lives improve as energy options increase. On a day we celebrate the Earth, it is reasonable…
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Republicans rally in downtown Colorado Springs to show support for Trump
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About 125 people showed their support for Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Acacia Park about an hour after about twice as many people marched through downtown Colorado Springs demanding the president release his tax returns. Organized by the El Paso County Republican Party, the pro-Trump rally featured U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, state Sen.…
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Pro- and anti-Trump rallies being held Saturday in Colorado Springs
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People from both sides of the partisan divide are preparing to rally on Saturday. In the morning, local activists will gather outside City Hall to call on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. And in the afternoon, local Republicans will muster in Acacia Park in support of Trump and his policies. The rally…
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Trump’s budget takes aim at grants funding safety net programs in Colorado Springs
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The White House aims to eliminate grants that Colorado Springs uses to help residents who struggle with homelessness, disabilities, domestic violence and other woes. Community Development Block Grants could be cut by 50 percent this year and eradicated in 2018, said Steve Posey, interim manager of the city’s Community Development Division, during a Tuesday presentation…
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Lamborn jeered during GOP congressman’s first town hall meeting in Colorado Springs
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A boisterous crowd that included dozens of progressive activists peppered U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., Wednesday with questions, comments and jeers on health care reform, federal budget cuts and the cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base during his first town hall meeting of the year in Colorado Springs. The overflow crowd of more…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: State politicians deny ‘existing science’
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A group of 17 Colorado state politicians have outed themselves as science deniers, in writing. No amount of empirical scientific data, regarding a pollution concern, seems good enough if it does not further their political agenda. At issue is an environmental report issued in February by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regarding…
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Tourism bill fails, aviation museum won’t be piece of Colorado Springs’ City for Champions projects
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Colorado Springs’ fourth City for Champions project – the city’s proposed World War II aviation museum downtown – isn’t going to happen, Mayor John Suthers told the City Council during a luncheon meeting Tuesday. An essential piece of state legislation got shelved Thursday, killing hopes that Regional Tourism Act money could go to the downtown…
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Lamborn held town hall meeting Wednesday in Colorado Springs
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., will hold a town hall meeting from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Stetson Hills substation of the Colorado Springs Police Department, 4110 Tutt Blvd. The meeting is part of a series of town hall meetings he is holding in each county of the fifth Congressional District, including two on Tuesday…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: Bill would stop employers from screening for convicts
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A bill gaining momentum in the legislature would forbid employers from asking applicants about past criminal convictions. Former criminals can make great employees who contribute significantly to society. We’d be in trouble if that were not the case, as nearly one-third of American adults have criminal records. Anyone who saw the movie “Catch Me If…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: We need affordable housing and indigent care
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Young and low-income Coloradans can’t find homes. Rural hospitals might close. Welcome to Colorado, where legislators could waste another year without resolving two of the biggest legislative dilemmas of the decade. If the public does not know affordable housing and hospitals are big concerns in the 2017, it is because state politicians and journalists use…
