News
Optimism fades for local flights
Three weeks ago, officials from the Colorado Springs Airport and the Economic Development Corp. expressed optimism about the airport’s future.

Banking & Finance
Don’t make mistake of thinking disasters don’t happen
What would happen to your business if, for instance, a water main broke nearby and employees and customers could not access your building for 10 days?

News
ExpressJet’s days in Springs could be coming to an end
ExpressJet, which offers twice-daily nonstop flights to San Diego and Los Angeles, and weekly service to Sacramento from Colorado Springs, might be forced to sharply curtail, and perhaps end, its flights before the end of the year, according to both Evergreen-based aviation analyst Mike Boyd and sources within the company who requested anonymity.

Opinion
Guns and Hoses: Cops, firefighters lacing it up to benefit cancer research
Their names aren’t Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden, and Cheyenne Mountain High School Football Stadium isn’t the Polo Grounds, but the gridiron game scheduled for July 19 between the Colorado Springs Police Department and Fire Department should be no less an epic and entertaining matchup than the contest between Notre Dame and Army so memorably described by Grantland Rice those many years ago.

Sales Column
Learning a few of life’s lessons from the ‘Lord of the Ring’
I sat down to talk with Drew Brown, the first black jet fighter pilot in the Navy and a decorated war veteran who was raised on the streets of Harlem. He went to school at Southern University, played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters and wrote a book called “You Gotta Believe!”