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Re: “Hear Here”
A great place, fantastic view, great entertainment, and fantastic people doing wonderful performance poetry.
Recent Comments
Re: “Old North End road diet plan blocked”
What many people seem to forget is that outside of Nevada and Cascade there are not many roads that allow North South traffic. To bottle neck this area just so a few home owners don't have to deal with the traffic only makes sense if there are alternate routes which there are not except I25 and that is already overcrowded.
Re: “What we've lost, what we could gain with the new Banning Lewis Ranch Agreement”
I have always thought that adding Banning Lewis to Colorado Springs is not a good idea. We are really getting too big to properly manage as it is and adding this only makes the problem worse. One only needs to look at the disparity between the north and south half of the city to see that bigger does not always make for better. As it stands now, I would like to see areas of the Springs broken off to incorporate on their own as suburban cities and Banning Lewis would be a good place to start.
Re: “A case for why churches shouldn’t be taxed”
If churches want to get into politics they, like many other not for profit organizations, should loose their tax free status. The constitution talks about a clear division of church and state and so in my mind churches who stray into the political arena have crossed a line.
Re: “Springs fleet contractor, Serco, sues the city — again”
We always hear that privatised services save money but it has been my observation that the opposite is often true. The profit motive always ends up tipping the scales. However in this case, I know that companies need to know that this city rarely jumps into something like this with both feet. So be careful how much blood you put into future business with them.
Re: “Divisions in El Paso County Democratic Party revealed in defections and drama”
If the last election told us anything it's that what we have been doing doesn't work as well as we thought. So we can keep doing the same thing and continue to lose or we can step outside the box and try something new. I'm up for something new and I believe that new blood never hurts as long as they also listen to experience.
Re: “Reader: I'm fed up with the hate being spewed at the symbols of our history”
I find it interesting that many people from the south call the civil war the war of northern aggression. Who attacked who at Fort Sumter? If you guessed the North you need to go back to school. As far as old monuments are concerned, if the powers that be decide that getting rid of old symbols of rebellion will help calm people's obsessions with that rebellion I say melt them all down. Their is not one civil war statue that is worth someone's life. The war is over, get over it.
Re: “Reader: Mr. Lamborn, this downright cruel and unjust”
Well said! It seems to me that I remember a day after Waldo Canyon burned when Barak Obama took the time to come to see the damage and offer help. He has done nothing but be everything we want a president to be and in return from you all we get is partisan rhetoric and mean spirited comments that neither elevate discussion nor help in any fashion to bring us together as a nation. You are a pathetic excuse for a representative. I can't wait to see you out of Congress.
2018 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
The new Dixon Trail
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Blank Coffee/Food Slideshow
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Road trip hike: Mitchell and Blue Lakes
Crystal Trail hike, Updates on Lake Moraine and Dixon Trails and Rainbow Falls
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Road Trip Hike: Harvard Lakes
10 tips for better Best Of voting
Road Trip Hike: Lost Man Loop Trail
Wedding Proposal at The Broadmoor
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Hilma Ungeheuer's funeral service
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