Sunday, May 19, 2013
News
Altitude adjustment for CAB at Fort Carson
As civic and elected leaders cheer news of the Combat Aviation Brigade, others bring the talk down to earth.
'Would you please look at this?'
Local man languishes for more than a year in an investigation that fails to go skin deep.
Election: Family matters
Bahr steps away from mayoral campaign to deal with adoptions in China; other election updates.
Collared
More victims of the down economy: pets and the shelters that protect them.
Noted: Group targets Lamborn
Also: Incline plan approved, powerhouses coming here and more.
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Long story short
When I first started working on this week's cover story package, I never could have imagined how difficult they would be to find.
Just passing through
"It's kind of a forgotten demographic. They don't really show up. They're housed, but they're just stuck."
Homeless in D-11: 1 in 35 schoolkids
"The face of homelessness is not that homeless guy on the corner asking for money anymore. It really is families."
Why motels?
There are other options — that are largely inaccessible at the moment.
Mom and dad and the baby, too
A young family makes it work in a Colorado Springs motel that's much more than a motel.
Cheat sheet
Independent's endorsements for the 2011 Colorado Springs city election.
Columns
Small: taking the next exit
It'd be wrong to let Larry Small slip away from City Hall without a proper send-off.
City outlook, 1990 and 2011
On Feb. 25, 1990, the Gazette published an ambitious, 112-page special edition titled Agenda for the '90s. It's worth a closer look now, as we wrap up an important city election.
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Letters
Feeling creeped out by Lamborn, a few last endorsements, a suggestion for the City Aud and more.
Check that
What local issues would you like to see a newly elected Springs mayor address?
CannaBiz: National Cancer Institute changes cannabis definition
Also: Updates on bans, driving penalties and more.
Finally the Rockies' turn?
Colorado has given every indication of being a more determined and confident team than before.
Believe it or not: Larry Milner
When he took out papers to run for mayor of our village, Milner knew it would be an uphill battle.
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Stranger than fiction
All the weird news that's fit to print.
Help Warren fend off the GOP madness
The Republican House leaders are mad in both senses of the word — insane and angry.
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Advice goddess
A woman can be a little premature in setting up who wears the ball gag in the relationship.
Food & Drink
Lightly roasted
Lofty's does café, caffè and a little bit more.
Side dish: Renovation at Jorge's
Also: Another Denver chef moves to Pueblo and more.
Music
Soul disposition
Underground hip-hop prodigy Blueprint abandons the rules and goes it alone
Beer, blood, breakups
Chamberlin celebrates good times with moody music
Happy hooker
New York City post-punk heroine Shilpa Ray manages to find new cures for the shopgirl blues
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Reverb
Heavyweight promoter Peter Ore, a former VP of booking for Live Nation, is coming onboard Soda Jerk, the Denver-based booking agency that owns and operates the Black Sheep.
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Sound advice
The Sharks, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Los Lonely Boys
Playing around
Who's playing where, and when, at area venues this week.
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Big gigs
Upcoming concerts here and around the region.
Film
English reboot: Jane Eyre
You wouldn't be out of line to wonder if it's even possible to get excited for a new movie version of Jane Eyre anymore.
Time bomb: Source Code
It's like Groundhog Day without the humanist philosophy, or one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books.
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Movie picks
Our reviewers' recommendations for films playing around the area.
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Cinefiles
The Tourist, Urgency, Shadow
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Opening this week
Hop, Jane Eyre, Source Code
Visual Arts
Marmalade skies
Step inside a rejuvenating world at the new Smokebrush.
Calendar
Special Section
UPDATE: Vote count stopped for the night; Skorman, Bach way ahead of mayoral pack
City Clerk Kathryn Young has decided that her staff will return Wednesday to finish counting votes from the municipal election, but the mayoral runoff is set.
One more election update: closer to the end
The city clerk's office still is apparently verifying and counting the final ballots from Tuesday's municipal election, with the total turnout now at 81,348 votes.
New executive director leaving Sangre
As of today, executive director Bill Mercer will no longer work at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center.
Another election update: Turnout surpasses 85,000
The latest report of election results from the city clerk's office now pegs the turnout at 85,259 — or 56 percent of the active voters who were sent mail ballots. This was one time when the late-arriving ballots barely deviated from those that had been received prior to Election Day.
Bach denies ex-wife's allegations of physical abuse
Mayoral candidate calls story 'utterly unfounded' despite her detailed recollections from their relationship in the late 1960s.
