Hazlehurst's Blog

Memorial, Mary Lou and the new mayor

For my many sins – and because our health care reporter, Amy Gillentine, was busy at the Space Symposium – it fell to me to cover this afternoon’s meeting of the “Memorial Commission.” The meeting featured brief remarks by former mayor Mary Lou Makepeace, who left office in 2003. Mary Lou spoke concisely, briefly, and [...]

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Colorado Springs: The entitlement city

Remember the “6035” project? Remember “Dream City”? And whatever happened to those hundreds of fresh-faced community leaders that the Colorado Springs Leadership Institute has trained, graduated and sent on their way during the last decade? I have good news for you! Dream City is alive, sort of, kept on life support by the occasional article [...]

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