Author: By Debbie Kelley [email protected]
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Abortion: A great religious divide that also unites faithful opponents and supporters
When anyone seeks counsel regarding abortion from Rabbi Jay Sherwood, leader of Temple Shalom, Colorado Springs’ largest Jewish synagogue, he cites Jewish law, which, he maintains, subscribes to an undisputed rabbinical conclusion that life begins at birth, not at conception. Sherwood points to the Talmud, the main source of Jewish religious law and theology, referencing the unborn…
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Supreme Court whodunit? Colorado professor thinks he knows who did it, and why
With the most significant leak of United States Supreme Court doings confirmed, the most pressing questions now are who did it and why? Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday that a leaked draft opinion from February indicating a majority of the nine justices supported overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide…
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A golf course atop a fourteener? A law that’s legal to break? Don’t get fooled on April 1st
Tomfoolery began early Friday and didn’t let up for April Fools’ 2022, a year that many thought needed a little levity. Pranks flew far and wide, from Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers announcing the nation’s first PGA-certified golf course built at over 14,000 feet atop Pikes Peak to the Downtown Partnership saying it was creating…
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With economic and geopolitical instability, many Colorado nonprofits struggling with finances, staffing, which is impacting services
A national study released Thursday showing nonprofit leaders are more concerned now about their organizations’ finances and staffing than one year ago is reverberating in Colorado Springs. Despite coronavirus infections, deaths and restrictions easing, workforce and revenue shortfalls are hampering nonprofits’ efforts to provide programs, according to the 2022 State of the Nonprofit Sector report…
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Ukrainians living in Colorado fear for their homeland
“A state of frozen disbelief” is how Marina Dubrova and other Ukrainians living in Colorado are feeling following Wednesday night’s Russian attacks on their homeland. “We hope that the international community will condemn Russia and bring strong sanctions against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s government, so he can feel the pain and repercussions,” she said. “We…
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Goats released into Colorado park as part of fire mitigation effort
This year’s journey for weed-eating goats to reach their usual stopover in Colorado Springs was as hairy as Santa’s ride on Christmas Eve. Like the magic of the holidays, livestock trucking is not an exact science. Drought conditions coupled with winter storms has adversely affected Lani Malmberg’s business, Goat Green LLC, which operates a base…
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COVID cases in Colorado continue rapid spread in schools, child care centers and health care facilities
COVID-19 has spread rapidly in Colorado K-12 schools in the past week, with 485 additional infections, according to outbreak data the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment updated Wednesday. That brings the total number of active cases to 886, among students and staff at elementary, middle and high schools statewide. Schoolchildren lead the state…
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COVID-19 infections in schools triple in past week in Colorado
The number of COVID-19 cases in Colorado schools nearly tripled in the past week, according to a Denver Gazette analysis of statistics the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issues weekly. Active outbreaks jumped from 15 schools in the Aug. 25 data release — the first surge to emerge since in-person classes resumed for the new…
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Colorado Springs girls basketball coach, teacher aide arrested on suspicion of sexual assault
The girls basketball coach at Doherty High School in Colorado Springs School District 11 and a paraprofessional at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Academy School District 20, has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, Colorado Springs police said Sunday. George Pollard, 31, is suspected…
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Manitou Springs residents offer reward money to find cemetery vandals
Concerned residents have offered up a $5,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction of vandals who struck grave sites at the Crystal Valley Cemetery in Manitou Springs on May 26. Vandals toppled or tampered with more than 50 monuments, authorities said, and large amounts of trash and a small burn area were found…