Photo Credit: Chester Spirit More than a year ago, we expressed concern about local government pushing through projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. As City Hall shut its doors to in-person citizen meeting attendance, we said, “now is not the time to sneak in agendas that the majority don’t want.” Citizens were preoccupied with COVID-19, and […]
Photo Credit: FOX 21 News Kevin Kelley, CSU Ratepayer Has there been an analysis of what went wrong at CSU to cause a very large cost adjustment to be passed on to utilities customers for the next 18 months? CSU tells us that the average customer will be charged approximately $26 per month for 18 […]
Photo Credit: Phyllis Gius We are entering our 4th year of helping Colorado Springs and El Paso County citizens who have been bulldozed by the local government, and offering commentary about what we see. Elected representatives are supposed to represent all of the residents. You might wonder: What issue has citizens reaching out to us […]
Ballots are on the way to Colorado Springs mailboxes. All six City Council District Seats are on the ballot for the April 6thelection. Do you know which district you’re voting in? Check out this link to find out. Have you checked out our candidate information page yet? Go get the scoop about the candidates and […]
As 2020 came to a close, the Colorado Springs City Council met for a special meeting on December 29th. A vote loomed. City Councilman Tom Strand had been accused by citizen Sam Bryant of an ethics violation through the Independent Ethics Commission (IEC.) The moment had arrived for Strand’s fellow council members to decide guilt […]
Photo Credit: City of Colorado Springs Facebook Page As we have done in years past, we have sent a survey to each of the candidates for Colorado Springs City Council who have filed their paperwork to run for office. We gathered questions that are of the most interest to our readers. While we do not […]
Photo Credit:Frontiers of Freedom Want the short version of the story? The El Paso County Board of County Commissioners was vague about its reason for going into two executive sessions. County bureaucrats destroyed the records when they knew I was asking for them, and when public attention was heating up. They told me to get […]
Photo Credit:ColoradoSprings.gov Where else but in America, do taxpayers pay for a federal agency to sue their city, pay attorney fees on both sides, and then pick up the tab for the imposed fines and future required projects? Let’s look back at the history of the Colorado Springs Stormwater Fee to understand what taxpayers are […]
Photo Credit: Denver Post Just 2 weeks into 2021, multiple readers have contacted us about different land development projects and upcoming zoning changes impacting their neighborhoods. The City of Colorado Springs is on a quest to increase population density. The terms “infill” and “density” are repeated over and over again in PlanCOS, the 2019 City […]
Action alert – Deadline December 30th Could higher density changes be coming to your neighborhood? An alert reader shared a Middle Shooks Run Neighborhood Association newsletter with us, detailing that the changes would allow property owners to replace a single-family home with up to 4 homes on the same property. See that email newsletter here. […]