Author: David Ramsey
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Will Front Range overcrowding inspire mass exodus?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Has the exodus begun? For decades, the Front Range was a destination of escape for Californians and Texans and other invaders drawn to our beauty, open spaces, sunshine, low property taxes and comparatively cheap real…
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Arrival of troops at Colorado College ignited state’s 1918 Great Influenza panic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Sept. 28, 1918, a group of 200 Montana college students arrived at the Colorado College campus to train for the world war raging in Europe. The same day, a group of 250 Montana students/soldiers…
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Do UFOs fly through Colorado skies?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sarah Scoles spent months in an intense dive into the UFO community. She talked with true believers. She pondered the deeper meanings of the UFO faith. She departed with a sympathetic view for those who…
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Meet the man who killed Colorado’s last grizzly
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The mystery of the lone grizzly. It’s a bloody and heroic tale that begins on the evening of Sept. 23, 1979, 40 years ago Monday. It opens as Ed Wiseman — mountain man and native…
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Spruce Mountain offers wondrous escape from Front Range noise and sprawl
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs – Walking in the shade atop Spruce Mountain almost allows you to forget the sprawl of Greater Denver is coming to get us. Yes, the downside of Front Range prosperity and beauty is…
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Give peace a chance as Air Force football returns to Boulder | David Ramsey
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It’s a popular 2019 myth, and it goes like this: Never has America been more divided. Never have we argued with this level of frightening fire. Nope. No way. We have our battles of right vs. left and those who adore our president vs. those who don’t, but we faced more dangerous disagreement on, say,…
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Welcome to Casa Bonita, the 8th Wonder of the World
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Here’s the truth about Colorado’s mostly beloved but sometimes despised Casa Bonita, the 52,000-square-foot restaurant that soars over the top of over the top. If you don’t get Casa Bonita, you’re never going to get…
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Spiffed-up Santa Fe Trail offers convenient and beautiful escape
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Santa Fe Trail, near the middle of Colorado Springs, fails to offer a genuine wilderness experience. Interstate 25 lurks a few hundred yards away, and the noise of hundreds of thousands of nearby residents…