Tag: Richard Skorman
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EDITORIAL: A scar heals above the Springs
A Gazette report last month summarized the legacy of the Pikeview Quarry on the city’s northwest side with one simple yet accurate word: complicated. For decades, the “Scar Wars” that were fought over the quarry had cast a shadow over Colorado Springs, much like the barren blight upon the mountainside visible from much of the…
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Reclamation of historic Pikeview Quarry complete: ‘A great day for Colorado Springs’
It began small, as some wounds begin ー something like a scratch on Colorado Springs’ northern mountainside. But over 100 years the people below watched it fester, that scratch becoming a scar that would grow and grow along with a population that looked helplessly on, unable to stop the bleeding. But now, finally, healing. Colorado’s…
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E-bike debate in Colorado Springs continues as leadership mulls ballot question
Just as a decision seemed close on the legal fate of electric bikes on Colorado Springs open space trails, the years-long debate has taken another turn. Prominent civic leaders have called on the City Council to table a vote on a proposed e-bike policy and instead turn to voters — an approach urged by some since…
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Anti-tax advocate Douglas Bruce plans to fight for property post-demolition
The city of Colorado Springs demolished the shell of a house on the west side this week that anti-tax advocate Douglas Bruce was fighting to reclaim. He expects to keep fighting for the property post demolition. For some neighbors the demolition of the house on Kiowa Street in Old Colorado City was a long awaited…
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Colorado Springs mayor, others urge Pentagon to reverse Space Command decision
Local leaders including Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers inked a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, overturning a January Trump administration decision to uproot it and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama. Decrying the Alabama move as too costly and motivated by politics, Suthers was…
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Colorado Springs’ only independent movie theater fights to survive amid pandemic | Lives Left Behind
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The end almost came two decades ago. The fate of Kimball’s Twin Peaks Theater in downtown Colorado Spring seemed sealed. “Curtains for Kimball’s: Movie theater to close in August,” read the headline in The Gazette on July 22, 2000. “It was when Cinemark came to…