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Honeyfolk Clothing has a website with four items of clothing for sale. The maker of these clothes, Heidi Iverson, crafts them entirely by hand. The yarn she uses comes from a local shepherdess and is ...
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...
Once the current master plan for Colorado Springs’ Austin Bluffs and Pulpit Rock Open Spaces was completed in 2000, work started on implementing it, with new trails being built, old rogue trails ...
Porta-potties were set up on the roof of San Francisco City Hall in 1998. A group of five overall-clad workers from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades rubbed 24k gold squares into ...
The Colorado Office of Economic Development introduced the Community Business Preservation Program at the end of 2023 to strengthen the operations of locally owned businesses facing possible ...
Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...
Despite a torrent of online protest, Steve Bannon — a far-right firebrand, podcaster and former presidential advisor — is set to speak at the Colorado Republican Party’s annual Centennial Dinner on ...
Editor’s note: JW Roth is co-owner of The Colorado Springs Independent. His opinions are his own and do not influence The Independent’s news coverage. In just 10 short days, Springs residents in six ...
Money, as the Supreme Court of the United States instructed us in the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling, is speech. Speech cannot be restricted under the First Amendment. And money speaks volumes not ...
Editor’s note: Kevin O’Neil is co-owner of The Colorado Springs Independent. His opinions are his own and do not influence The Independent’s news coverage. Colorado Springs is debating an existential ...
March 18, 2020, was my 18th birthday and the day Gov. Jared Polis closed schools in Colorado. I don’t remember much about the day itself, beyond a cake of chocolate, strawberries and cream. There’s a ...
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a column from John Harner, professor of geography at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the author of “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and ...