Author: Dave Philipps
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Ask Gen. Palmer: Trip across desert is muddy, rough
Good morning, citizens of Colorado Springs. I have been recounting some of my adventures as a young man this winter, especially the year I spent riding horseback in 1897 from Kansas to California through the wild deserts of the Southwest, surveying for a new railroad route. We reached San Francisco in February, then headed over…
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City ready to move forward with new Pikes Peak summit house
Efforts to renovate the dilapidated summit house on Pikes Peak are moving at a glacial pace, but managers say they are finally moving, and construction on a new summit house could begin by 2015 or 2016. “That’s our best-case scenario and we’re optimistic it can happen,” said Sandy Elliott, a senior analyst for the city.…
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Ask Gen. Palmer: After 2,500 miles, party time
Good day, readers. As you may recall, I’ve been regaling you over the past several weeks with some tales of a trip I took as a young man in 1867, surveying a railroad route through the southwest from Kansas to California. I left off just south the Great Canyon of the Colorado, where my men…
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Marijuana oil brings relief, joy
This is the first Christmas that the Swann family won’t spend with extended family in Alabama – a situation that makes members shake their heads in disappointment and tear up with joy. They can’t go home because they moved to Colorado Springs this fall to treat their daughter Allie’s severe epilepsy with a marijuana oil…
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Ask Gen. Palmer: Assistant helped light up the world
Happy Christmas, fellow residents of Colorado Springs. For the past several weeks, I have been telling you about my adventures surveying a rail line through the Wild West in 1867. There is much more to tell about my trek through the desert and arrival in California, but I want to pause, as Christmas is nearly…
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A return to roots, with a new look1The Gazette will move downtown
Fifty-six years ago, The Gazette left its longtime home on Pikes Peak Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs for more spacious digs on what was then the outskirts of the city. Now we are back. During the past few days, The Gazette has moved from its longtime home at 30 S. Prospect St. into new offices…
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Measuresto helpveteransstripped from defense bill
In a rush to approve a bill to fund the country’s military, the Senate sent to a vote Wednesday a version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act that has been stripped of local lawmakers’ amendments aimed at helping combat veterans. The House of Representatives passed a nearly identical version last week. A final vote…
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Ex-informant: A wide net cast at the Air Force Academy
The Air Force Academy says the use of cadet informants is “deliberate, judicious and limited to felony activity” — a statement the school made after a Dec. 1 investigation by The Gazette showed that the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigation used students to ferret out misbehavior. But Adam DeRito, a former cadet informant, says…
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Air Force Academy superintendent wants overall review
The Air Force Academy superintendent plans a top-to-bottom review of admissions, recruiting, graduation and disenrollment following a Dec. 1 investigation by The Gazette that showed the Air Force operated a system of cadet informants. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson’s plans were summarized in an email that the chairman of the Association of Graduates, Roger Carleton, sent…
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Air Force plans probe into handling of ex-informant; academy leader seeks to end spy program
The Air Force Inspector General will investigate the case of former Air Force Academy cadet Eric Thomas, who was expelled in April for actions he said were part of his work as a confidential informant, the academy’s top general announced late Tuesday. In addition, Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson said she will review the academy’s disenrollment…