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As we step into a new year, it’s a time to reflect, reset, and renew our priorities. For Colorado Springs, the need to address rising crime and the related challenges facing our community should be at the forefront of that reset. In the past year, local law enforcement and city officials have struggled to keep…

Colorado’s New Year Resolution to “suck less” when it comes to crime and public safety is on the ropes more quickly than my pledge to work out every day and stop eating loaves of bread. Two days after Gov. Jared Polis declared in his seventh State of the State address that “[i]n Colorado, we have…

It’s not just on Colorado street corners and intersections where people are looking for handouts. Union leaders are panhandling big time for an infusion of cash they have not earned. One of the hottest, and totally unnecessary, controversies that is eating up legislative bandwidth at the Capitol is a proposal for a gift to union…

By now you’ve likely either heard or maybe caught a glimpse of a rare astronomical phenomenon known as a “planetary parade.” For a limited time, this month and next, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the naked eye in Colorado’s sky. With a pair of binoculars or a telescope, Uranus and Neptune can…

Offal is really quite fantastic for fashionistas, foodies, consumers, and cattle producers. About 56% of the weight of a steer slaughtered in the U.S. is comprised of cuts with which retail consumers are familiar. Roasts, steaks, and ground are the most recognizable cuts in the grocery meat case that most consumers know how to cook.…