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CO Springs Residents Protest Data Center To Be Built Near Garden of the Gods
19+ hour, 22+ min ago (235+ words) The use is permitted within the zone district that this building is a part of," explained Planning Department staff member Austin Cooper during an April 7 community meeting. It's an administrative review, which means that if they address all of the…...
CO Springs Residents React to Venezuela Raid
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (442+ words) Sean Beedle is a former soldier, educator, activist, and animal welfare worker. He received a Bachelor's in English from UCCS. He has worked as a freelance and staff writer for the Colorado Springs Independent covering LGBTQ issues, nuclear disasters, cattle…...
CO Springs Is Among the Cities Building Subsidized Housing For Teachers
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (1153+ words) Jeff Kruth, Miami University, and Tammy Schwartz, Miami University For much of the 20th century, teaching was a stable, middle-class job in the U. S. Now it's becoming a lot harder to survive on a teacher's salary: Wages have been stagnant for decades,…...
CO Springs School Board Candidate has History of Complaints, Misconduct at VA
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (476+ words) Records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal nine complaints from colleagues about Waldrep's attitudes towards working groups for veterans of color and a written counseling for "disrespectful, insulting, abusive, insolent, or obscene language or conduct." Waldrep has…...
Historian Tells How Colorado Springs Became "Evangelical Vatican
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (969+ words) Colorado Springs is home to dozens of major international evangelical parachurch organizations, many of them arriving here between 1980 and 1995. But the story really begins between 1945 and 1955, says a historian's new book. William J. Schultz's Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate…...
CO Springs Teachers Strike for First Time Since 1975
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (260+ words) Walters, the former Oklahoma Superintendent of schools, resigned that job ten days ago to become CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, an offshoot of the Koch-funded Freedom Foundation. Currently under investigation regarding conflict of interest rules related to his previous…...
Israeli Influence Operation Targeting Colorado Churches
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (363+ words) Geofencing is a type of location-based marketing and advertising. A mobile app or software uses the Global Positioning System, radio frequency identification, Wi-Fi or cellular data to define a virtual geographical boundary and trigger a targeted marketing action when a…...
School Board Candidates Field Culture War Questions at CO Springs Forum
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (582+ words) Heidi Beedle is a former soldier, educator, activist, and animal welfare worker. They received a Bachelor's in English from UCCS. They have worked as a freelance and staff writer for the Colorado Springs Independent covering LGBTQ issues, nuclear disasters, cattle…...
CO Springs School District Responds to Potential Teacher Strike
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (253+ words) This story was originally published by the Pikes Peak Bulletin. Earlier this month, during a Labor Day event at Colorado Springs City Hall, educators announced plans to strike this fall over the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education's vote…...
Militia Leader Announces Bid To Be Mayor of CO Springs
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (371+ words) John "Tig" Tiegen, a survivor of the Sept. 12, 2012, attack on the U. S. embassy in Benghazi and leader of the Colorado militia group United American Defense Force, has announced his plans to again run for Mayor of Colorado Springs. Tiegen ran in…...