We’ve been following the odd story about Colorado Springs City Council President Richard Skorman’s appearance at the scene of a car accident. Fox 21 News originally covered the story. On April 7th, Jeff Crank interviewed the accident Victim, Barb Sutherland, on his radio show on KVOR. The segment starts at 1:11 in to the podcast. […]
By: Laura Carno SpringsTaxpayers.com is following a story that has not been broadly reported, but may cost taxpayers $570,000. Sounds crazy, but here goes. In the Colorado Springs City Council work session on March 12, 2018, there was discussion about the transfer of land from the City to a local non-profit, Greccio Housing, for the […]
By Rebecca Marshall On Thursday, February 8th, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) held a meeting at the Monument Library to discuss their project to widen I-25 from Monument to Castle Rock. I arrived 2 minutes late to find the meeting well under way. In fact, another attendee advised me that the meeting had started 15 […]
By: Laura Carno FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 31, 2018 Contact: Laura Carno SpringsTaxpayers@gmail.com or 719-492-0211 SPRINGSTAXPAYERS.COM OPPOSES COLORADO SPRINGS PLAN TO REMOVE OLD NORTH END TRAFFIC LANES WITHOUT A VOTE FROM CITY COUNCIL Colorado Springs — SpringsTaxpayers.com –an organization committed to holding local government accountable– announced today its opposition to the planned removal of traffic lanes […]
By: Rebecca Marshall Part of what we do at SpringsTaxpayers is attend meetings that might not make the news, but that have a big impact on our community. Last night, I attended the Antler’s Park Forum Q & A. The forum was sponsored by those who want to turn Antler’s Park in to a soccer […]
By: Laura Carno We know that one of your New Year’s resolutions is to be involved in your local government. We can help you keep that resolution! Here’s what we are up to in 2018 We are hitting the ground running in the New Year! Rebecca Marshall has joined the SpringsTaxpayers.com team. Rebecca was part […]
Guest post by Rick Villa You may have noticed that more and more of our streets are being converted into bike lanes. However, this is just the beginning if we don’t act. The City has recently released their Bicycle Master Plan. You can see it by clicking here. There are many things that we believe are wrong […]
By Laura Carno Jeff Crank, a friend of SpringsTaxpayers.com, took on the Gazette on his November 18th show. And he didn’t pull any punches. Full disclosure, I used to produce Jeff’s show back in the day, and we remain very good friends. Take a listen to his podcast. Jeff wants to know why the Gazette covered the […]
By Laura Carno **Update – The Colorado Springs Gazette ran Laura Carno’s Letter to the Editor on Wednesday, November 15. http://gazette.com/letters-gymnasts-safety-and-sexual-abuse-calling-attention-to-systemic-racism/article/1615303 On November 8, 2017, the Colorado Springs Gazette published an article called, ” Voting Postmortem: 13 winners and losers in the Colorado Springs 2017 Election.” Below is a letter to the editor I submitted […]
By Laura Carno First, a sincere thank you to every voter and donor who took this election seriously, and went to the trouble of educating yourselves on the issues. That is what it takes over the long run to have public servants who know they work for us. While 2A passed by 54% – 46%, […]