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Cover Story
Everyone professes to love free speech, but a closer look at a number of recent cases suggests that when right-wing pundits stir up controversy which they, of course, have every right to do people in power, from city councils and boards of trustees, to second lady Lynne Cheney and former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm, are responding by silencing the troublemakers.
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Local News
Norberto Villanuevas months-long ordeal with the Colorado Springs police is finally over sort of
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Local News
Local GOP lawmaker wants to hike county commissioners pay again
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News Flash!!! There are no Democrats left in El Paso County.
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What's happenin' this week in the big city highlights from our listings
- by Noel Black, John Hazlehurst and Kristen Sherwood
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I Spy
Shakedown Streets long strange trip
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The passing of former governor John A. Love this week at 86 serves as a
reminder of Colorado as it was only a few decades ago
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Your Turn
We have learned the Lessons of Vietnam (havent we?) and wont make
those mistakes again.
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Readers of the Independent talk back to the editor.
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IQ
Just another thing for Colorado to brag about: The El Paso County Health Department tells us that we have the nation's highest flu rate. That means sniffles, sore throats, coughs and watery eyes are everywhere you turn in these dark days of midwinter.
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The national holiday honoring the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. has come
and gone ...
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Appetite
I'm pleased to report that my recent dining experiences at Adam's Mountain Cafe have been uniformly cozy and the food far exceeded my expectations.
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Bang und Strum
Cypress Hill negotiates a musical never-never land
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Playing Around
Rocking your socks off this Friday night are Tab, Sickbox, Dissonance and Dropp.
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Where to find live music in the Colorado Springs area.
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Reviews
The human heart in isolation, the struggle to discover who we really are,
and the possibility of second chances are the cliched truths at the center of
Amelie and The Shipping News, two wildly disparate films.
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Reviews
"Relentless onslaught" wouldn't even begin to describe the barrage of urban war vertigo in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.
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Reviews
Robert Altman has made the perfect movie for reluctant Anglophiles -
Gosford Park.
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Our reviewers' recommendations for films showing on Colorado Springs
area screens
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What's new on Colorado Springsarea screens
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What's playing, where, and when, on the silver screen in Colorado Springs.
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Artbreak
An interview with MOMA architecture expert Terence Riley, who speaks in
the Springs next wee
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Events
If there's something going on, we've got it listed here.