Author: Mary Shinn
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Amid Colorado Springs budget shortfall, marijuana industry pushes back on departing from ‘will of the voters’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the city of Colorado Springs braces for a $11.5 million budget shortfall this year, it could use marijuana revenues to ease a small portion of the pain, but leaning too heavily on the money…
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Colorado Springs City Council, Mayor Mobolade at odds over marijuana tax revenues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade are at odds over the power to pick who will receive the tax revenues from recreational marijuana sales. Voters laid out the broad framework for marijuana tax revenues in 2022, requiring potentially millions to fund post-traumatic stress…
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Colorado Springs venture capital fund makes ‘huge’ investment in space industry
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado Springs-based venture capital fund is backing CisLunar Industries, a company specializing in the hardware needed to power satellites, with an investment of $1 million. Payload, a space industry publication, first reported Friday that the Colorado ONE Fund was investing $1 million in the…
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Forest Service battles mountain pine beetle surge with fake pheromones
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Don Hardin’s hillside was largely cleared of trees killed by the mountain pine beetle in April with help from his neighbors but now, in early July, an overwhelming number stand dead. Some of the trees…
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Space Force leader calls on guardians to help develop solutions
Space Force guardians need to be developing solutions, rather than waiting for leaders to deliver them. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman called on the young military branch to innovate during the Air and Space Association’s Warfare Symposium on Monday in Aurora. While he acknowledged that the Space Force needs more money and more…
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Air Force Academy’s Muslim cadets denied accommodation during Ramadan: Allegation
As Muslims around the world mark the month of Ramadan, some cadets at the Air Force Academy may need to push through rigorous physical training without food or water or forgo a few days of the holy fast. In recent years, Muslim cadets have been excused from physical training to allow them to participate in…
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Trump’s order not a ban on transgender troops yet
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded a previous executive order allowing transgender troops to openly serve. An expert with an LGBTQ+-rights group, Lambda Legal, said Tuesday in a news conference that the repeal of the previous order is not itself a…
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Trump promises to use the military to help enforce immigration laws, as he labels drug cartels ‘terrorists’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump on Monday promised to crack down on illegal immigration using the military, reinstate troops discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine and classify drug cartels as terrorist groups. While classifying groups as terrorists likely summons images of the decades of conflict in Iraq…
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Army, police investigating Fort Carson soldier filmed in online sting by pedophile hunter groups
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Fort Carson soldier is under investigation after he was caught by a civilian group of pedophile hunters. Fort Carson Spc. Brandon Storey states in the first few minutes of a video on YouTube taken by Colorado Ped Patrol he was planning on meeting children,…
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Veterans harmed by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and prior policies to see proactive review
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While the military has proactively helped some veterans hurt by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policies, a recent lawsuit settlement requires the Department of Defense to help far more former troops kicked out of the armed services for their sexual orientation. Radha Manthe, an attorney who…