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COMMENTARY | Colorado Springs couple celebrates Trump’s presidency
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Editor’s note: Today, columnist David Ramsey talks with supporters of President Donald Trump. Yesterday, Ramsey talked with a critic of Trump. It was Election Night 2016 when Sidney Patin entered a nervous sleep. He wasn’t sure if Donald Trump, his beloved candidate, would defeat Hillary Clinton. Myra, his wife, shook him awake at 2 a.m.…
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Study to assess options for Fort Collins-to-Pueblo passenger rail
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A state commission exploring the construction of a Front Range passenger rail has started slow, but the group finally is rolling. Nearly two years after its formation, the commission is working with the Colorado Department of Transportation this summer to hire a contractor to study what it would take to build a system stretching more…
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COMMENTARY | Colorado Springs pastor deeply troubled by Trump’s presidency
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Editor’s note: In today’s column, David Ramsey talks with a Colorado Springs resident who is critical of President Donald Trump. In Thursday’s column, Ramsey will talk with a Springs resident who supports Trump. About 9 p.m. on Election Night 2016, Alycia Erickson had to escape her television screen. She was too upset to accept the…
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Colorado ranked among 10 best states by U.S. News & World Report
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Colorado was named the 10th best state by U.S. News & World Report for the second year in a row, nabbing the No. 1 spot for its economy and the No. 8 spot for its infrastructure. Results were mixed in other categories, though. Colorado was deemed 31st in natural environment, 29th in crime/corrections and in…
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Colorado spring still flowing as volunteers try to save historic site from closure
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An April 1 cutoff date set last year to cap a natural spring on the road to Cripple Creek has come and gone, and the free water is still flowing. For now. The deadline has been extended to May 1, said Colorado Water Division 2 Engineer Bill Tyner, to give community volunteers time to submit…
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RAMSEY | Will we learn from our sins at Amache, where Japanese-Americans were unjustly imprisoned?
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GRANADA – What happens when fear overwhelms the better angels of America? When obsession with national security conquers our constitutional commitment to personal liberty? When hysterical stereotype defeats peaceful reality? The answers are found on a windy prairie 180 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. Standing amid the ruins of Amache Internment Center delivers a sobering…
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US Space Command gets start in Colorado Springs with local general in charge
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COLORADO SPRINGS – The new U.S. Space Command will, at least for now, call Colorado Springs home and Air Force Gen. Jay Raymond will lead it while keeping his title as boss of Air Force Space Command. President Donald Trump announced the general’s nomination Tuesday morning to be “Commander, United States Space Command, and Commander, Air…
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Trump border wall plan threatens $77M in spending at Fort Carson
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The Trump administration’s border wall project could raid $77 million in construction money from Fort Carson, according to a Pentagon list released to Congress on Monday. The list, released to The Gazette by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, puts more than $10 billion in military construction projects…
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Colorado Republican’s bill protecting medical-pot users’ gun rights is defeated
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A Republican lawmaker’s bid to keep Coloradans authorized to use medical marijuana from being deprived of the right to own and carry firearms was rejected Wednesday by Democrats. Senate Bill 93, proposed by state Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, died along party lines in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. She said the…
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Climate change, public lands take center stage at Denver’s Outdoor Retailer show
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Outdoor Retailer’s winter extravaganza returned to the Mile High City for a second January since the move from Utah, where tradespeople felt betrayed by the state government’s support of shrinking national monuments. Once again almost 900 exhibitors filled halls and ballrooms this week, and once again industry representatives used offshoot meeting spaces at the recreation…
