Broadmoor’s newest dreams won’t come soon
It’s been a long, strange trip for the city of Colorado Springs and The Broadmoor, two feuding organizations locked in a long, unhappy marriage. When Gen. William Palmer founded the city in 1871, much of the rolling mesa at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain was owned by Burton C. Myers, who planted a few acres [...]
Are you mad, mad, mad because other people are getting handouts, subsidies, benefits, tax breaks, rebates, refunds and entitlements, and you’re not? If not, you may be the only living American who believes that he/she isn’t being screwed, swindled, shortchanged, taken advantage of, exploited, played for a sucker and made to pay retail for everything. [...]
Continue reading …In a letter last week to Pueblo County commissioners, Mayor Steve Bach and Council President Keith King patted themselves on the back for the city’s well-funded stormwater program. “All told,” the two leaders wrote, “the City of Colorado Springs will be devoting nearly $46.5 million to stormwater projects in 2013.” Why should the Pueblo County [...]
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Flash floods may cause intense property destruction and loss of life, but they are limited in scope and duration. Regional floods may affect much of the Front Range and are caused by massive weather events that typically last for days, leaving widespread damage that requires many years of recovery. Such floods are rare. There have [...]
Continue reading …Here’s a recent press release from the city touting its concrete cost-sharing program. Particularly interesting parts of the presser are italicized (although you may argue that no part of such a press release could conceivably be very interesting). “The City of Colorado Springs, with funding from the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA) and the [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs City Council will hold a “retreat” this weekend at Glen Eyrie between 6-9 PM on Friday evening, May 10, and continuing from 8AM – 5PM on Saturday, May 11. No further details were available. No agenda was posted. The location was described only as “Glen Erie – Pink House” (talk about conspicuous [...]
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Editor’s note: Last week, CSBJ writer John Hazlehurst began a three-part series on the history of flooding in the region and the ominous outlook after the Waldo Canyon fire. Part 1 focused on the historic 1935 flood, which killed 18, and Part 2 this week looks at the rising danger of flash floods even worse [...]
Continue reading …Last week it was time for a haircut, so I made an appointment with my friend Tiffany, who has a salon in her south-side home. Tiffany’s a competent woman in her 40s who has been cutting hair for 20 years. Making ends meet was tough when she had young children, so she worked construction, bartended [...]
Continue reading …Politicians, businesspeople, and job applicants all know the first and simplest rule of self-promotion: get someone else to do it for you. When Keith King was campaigning for a council seat, he didn’t say that he was a fine, upstanding statesman who played well with Democrats; he quoted Rollie Heath to that effect, who’s not [...]
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Editor’s note: The following is the first of a three-part series about floods and flood dangers in the Pikes Peak Region. This story focuses on the Memorial Day flood of 1935, the most destructive in the region’s history. In Colorado Springs, as in much of the arid Southwest, rains come quickly and unexpectedly. Spring rain [...]
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