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State officials will be in Colorado Springs on Tuesday to talk transportation
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State officials will be in Colorado Springs this week to talk to residents and local leaders about the Pikes Peak region’s transportation needs. The Colorado Department of Transportation will hold a meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave. The event is part of the agency’s statewide tour to gauge transportation…
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Colorado politicians make final push to keep U.S. Space Command
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With a new defense secretary on the job, Colorado politicians are bombarding the Pentagon with pleas to keep the new U.S. Space Command here. Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is the latest, a few days behind Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera and the El Paso Board of County Commissioners. The new push is aimed at Defense…
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First Air Force Academy grads usher newest cadets into the Long Blue Line
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Members of the Air Force Academy’s Class of 1959 – its first graduating class – ushered the newest crop of cadets across the academy’s Challenge Bridge on Thursday in a symbolic passing from their civilian pasts to their military futures. The basic cadets, who marched back Wednesday from Jacks Valley, a 3,300-acre training area on…
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Petitioners proposing a new name for Colorado Springs’ Trump Avenue: Immigrant Avenue
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As part of the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt, which includes challenges like eating a foot-long s’more “lady and the tramp style,” a group of Colorado Springs residents is out to change the name of Trump Avenue. One of the many challenges in the scavenger hunt, known as GISH, drew their attention to Trump Avenue, a…
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Colorado’s prison population, once forecast to boom, now is expected to level
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Colorado’s prison population, which six months ago was projected to hit a record high in 2025, now is expected to level over the next six years. The state Department of Public Safety predicted in December that the population of prisoners would swell by more than 20% between fiscal years 2018 and 2025, from 20,136 at…
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Is the Hyperloop in the blueprint for Colorado’s transportation future?
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More than 18 months after a Los Angeles-based company announced it was eyeing Colorado for its first Hyperloop system, there have been few signs that the proposal has progressed beyond a cutting-edge concept. Virgin Hyperloop One is among a handful of companies that have made pitches for transit networks that would send passenger-loaded pods zipping…
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Colorado indoor vape ban begins today
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Starting today, vaping and e-cigarette use will be banned from spaces where smoking already is prohibited in Colorado. The Clean Indoor Air Act passed more than a decade ago and banned indoor smoking of tobacco in businesses, including restaurants, hotels and hospitals. House Bill 1076 now expands the scope of the act to include electronic…
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Republican activist, former Colorado candidate accused of flashing revolver at US marshal
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A former Republican candidate, political activist and a hard-line gun rights supporter faces a felony menacing charge after allegedly brandishing a pistol at a U.S. marshal in Interstate 25’s Gap construction zone. Kanda Calef, now free on $2,500 bail, is due in Douglas County’s 18th Judicial District on Wednesday, where she is expected to enter…
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Drug overdose deaths across Colorado drop for the first time in years
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Drug overdose deaths across Colorado eased slightly in 2018 for the first time in years, led by a drop in prescription painkiller deaths that have been a root cause of the opioid epidemic. Across the state, 974 people died from drug overdoses last year – a 38-person drop from the state’s record death toll set…
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Colorado Springs may ask residents to forgo TABOR refund to fix parks
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Chipping away at a $100 million parks maintenance backlog and repairing Colorado Springs’ roadways are among the highest priorities for the coming year, city officials said Wednesday. The conversation at a joint meeting headed by City Council members and Mayor John Suthers quickly turned to how to ask voters in November to allow the city…
