Opinion: Shift strategy to include sustainability

Opinion: Shift strategy to include sustainability

As we enter the new year, there is no doubt to any business owner that the world is changing rapidly. Businesses are dealing with the after-effects of the global pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, economic challenges, as well as an ever-accelerating development of technologies. Consumers no longer see online and offline shopping as distinct experiences, and expect everything to be connected all the time — with many options available to them, including how they connect and interact with the businesses involved in the supply chain. Businesses must figure out how to do all this, and adapt to new technology, all while dealing with inflation and a talent shortage. 

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Opinion: I’m very excited about the future!

Opinion: I’m very excited about the future!

  • Ahriana Platten, board president, Sixty35 Media
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It was December of 2000 when I moved to the Pikes Peak region. As an entrepreneur, I’d written a few feature columns on topics like travel destinations and cause-related events for the San Antonio Current, and one of the first things I looked for when I arrived here was its equivalent — an a…

Opinion: A matter of taste

Opinion: A matter of taste

Over the years, I’ve heard from outraged restaurant owners and investors about the Indy’s food reviews. Occasionally, they’ve pulled advertisements because of our reviewers’ opinions. Seldom has anyone asked for a re-do, and no one has ever invited me to come and try the food or bring others…

Kathryn Eastburn: Watching the Indy grow up

Kathryn Eastburn: Watching the Indy grow up

When John Weiss and I first started bringing the Colorado Springs Independent to life in 1993, the paper didn’t even have a name, just a business plan. We didn’t have an office, so we set up shop in an empty room above Poor Richard’s equipped with a telephone and a couple of chairs. We took …

John Weiss: Why we launched the Indy

John Weiss: Why we launched the Indy

  • by John Weiss | jweiss@sixty35media.org
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In 1986, the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph (now The Gazette), purchased and closed down the Colorado Springs Sun, making Colorado Springs a monopoly newspaper town.

Carrie Simison: Growing up at the Indy

Carrie Simison: Growing up at the Indy

In April 1998, I walked through the doors of the ColoradoSprings Independent alternative newspaper, having faked being cool enough to score the graphic design job I was about to start. I was lost in my new hometown without friends, without a connection to local establishments, desperately wa…

Ralph Routon: Passing the Indy torch

Ralph Routon: Passing the Indy torch

  • by Ralph Routon | rrouton@sixty35media.org
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In September 1993, the Colorado Springs media landscape matched the description of the fast-growing metro area — stable, vibrant, thriving, ambitious.

Opinion: We are not totally powerless

Opinion: We are not totally powerless

I rarely sleep past 6 a.m., if even that late. I am usually up before the sun in the darker months and around dawn during the brighter ones. Thus, oftentimes I am reading the latest news before anyone else is awake. If there’s something that has happened since I went to bed and I want to dis…

Opinion: New gun laws?

Opinion: New gun laws?

  • Mike Littwin, courtesy the Colorado Sun
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News that the state Legislature will once again look hard at gun-safety legislation is hardly surprising in the wake of the mass murder at Club Q.

Opinion:  Before it’s too late

Opinion:  Before it’s too late

It’s hard to believe the transition from one calendar year to the next is quickly approaching. Naturally, this time of year presents an opportunity for giving, often via consumerism. It’s a time when spending typically hits its apex. But does the cost go beyond the price tag? 

Opinion: Democracy with a greener lining

Opinion: Democracy with a greener lining

On Nov. 8, voters repudiated MAGA Republicanism and right-wing attacks on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. They stood up for racial equity and LGBTQ rights. They turned out to sideline conspiracy theorists and defend democracy. They delivered a humiliating rejection of Donald Trump a…

Opinion: Remembering my mother this Thanksgiving

Opinion: Remembering my mother this Thanksgiving

A beautiful dish one of my beloved children gave me a few years ago features the following quote (attributed to Stuart Clarke): “So much of what we know about love, we learn from our mother.” It is impossible for me to think of the Thanksgiving holiday and not remember my mother. I was so fo…

Opinion: Pelosi, Boebert: Where we are

Opinion: Pelosi, Boebert: Where we are

  • Mike Littwin, Courtesy the Colorado Sun
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I know it’s a stretch to link these two couldn’t-be-less-alike political players, but I couldn’t resist the temptation. The status of both Nancy Pelosi and Lauren Boebert tells us so much about where we are in 2022 and where we might be headed in the near future.

Letter to the Editor: What is Thanksgiving all about?

Letter to the Editor: What is Thanksgiving all about?

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Universally, those of us, fortunate enough to have had good parents to teach us to be polite and say our ‘thank yous’ as appropriate, do so automatically. So why do we make that ONE day a year – Thanks Giving Day  - so especial? Is it to show God gratitude for His blessings, or our good fort…

Opinion: No regrets

Opinion: No regrets

I originally planned to write about The Walking Dead’s penultimate episode, which aired Nov. 6. To me, it was the best episode of the series. But we can discuss TWD matter via email if you’d like.

Opinion: Prosecute actual crimes

Opinion: Prosecute actual crimes

Violent crime is on the rise in the Fourth Judicial District, and in the past five years, crime in El Paso County has surpassed the national average.

Opinion:  The rest of  the story?

Opinion:  The rest of  the story?

  • Mike Littwin, Courtesy The Colorado Sun
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If there’s anything we know about Lauren Boebert, it’s that she loves attention. And as of now, she’s as famous — or infamous — as she’s ever been. And, depending on how things go over the next few days or weeks, she could be as famous or infamous now as she’ll ever be again.

Opinion: Thank a veteran

Opinion: Thank a veteran

Many of us know “On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month….” It refers to today, the annual commemoration of the Armistice of World War I, marking the ceasefire of that horrific bloodbath, which ended in 1918. The name was changed to Veterans Day in 1954 in order to recognize all w…

Opinion: All partisan all the time

Opinion: All partisan all the time

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Though this issue of the Indy went to press on Monday, before the election results were in, we’re pretty sure Doug Lamborn will have won his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. And every two years when this happens, knowing he’ll use his extended time in office to do close to no…

Opinion:  Looking for sense  in legal fight

Opinion:  Looking for sense  in legal fight

In August, Sen. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, was indicted on one count of providing false information about his residence, a Class 5 felony, after Republican El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen presented evidence to a grand jury. The allegation was that two years ago, Lee violate…

Opinion: I need better internet. So do you.

Opinion: I need better internet. So do you.

Do you remember the last time you called up your internet service provider to thank them for the tremendous job they’ve been doing? I worked at Time Warner Cable’s call center here in town for a number of years (it’s called Spectrum now) and I remember the instructors informing us that custo…

Opinion: Cut food gaps in schools

Opinion: Cut food gaps in schools

November is just around the corner, and the chance to use the power of our vote is upon us. Election season can be stressful, what with wading through all the measures, trying to decipher ballot language and keeping up with the ads. But here’s one initiative that makes sense — Proposition FF…

Opinion: The Boebert threat

Opinion: The Boebert threat

  • Mike Littwin, Courtesy the Colorado Sun
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Once again, I’m faced with what I have come to think of as the Lauren Boebert conundrum: How crazy/bigoted/outrageous/provocative does she have to be — and she can be all those things at once — before I give in and write about her again?

Opinion: Colorado Springs, the ghost town

Opinion: Colorado Springs, the ghost town

While my colleagues were rubbing the dreamy sludge from their eyes and prepping the coffee pour on Monday morning, I was already two miles into a 32-mile (52 kilometer) charity walk around town for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, ultimately raising $660 to support local mental healt…

Opinion: Young and disengaged

Opinion: Young and disengaged

  • Guest column by Sarah McMahon
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If you ask young (would-be, should-be) voters what they care about, they can easily answer. They care about all the things that make their way to the ballot, and all the issues that need serious attention and problem-solving. But if you ask if they vote, the answer is largely no.

Opinion:  The final hearing

Opinion:  The final hearing

  • Mike Littwin courtesy The Colorado Sun
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Now that the Jan. 6 hearings have apparently come to an end, it’s fair to ask just what the committee has accomplished.

Opinion: Do you you want your vote to matter again?

Opinion: Do you you want your vote to matter again?

I was visiting with a beloved cousin this past Wednesday night and we were talking about our parents. Her dad was one of my mom’s three elder brothers and it was his birthday, though he passed away in 1995. He would tell my mother when they were growing up that the reason there was a legal h…