Tag: new york
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The kindness after 9/11: ‘Come From Away’ offers 200 free tickets to first responders
They came carrying luggage. Initially, some were heading home. Others were traveling for business or vacation. Then the world changed. On Sept. 11, 2001, as hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the United States shut down all airports for the first time in history. …
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Colorado Springs native brings Broadway career back home
Beneath the glow of Broadway stage lights, Aléna Watters steps into the rhythm of “West Side Story,” her voice rising as the tension of the iconic rivalry unfolds in song. Night after night, she moves through the choreography that defines one of theater’s most famous productions, while soaking in the reality of her first Broadway…
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COLUMN: Mammynomics will poison the Big Apple
There once was a man named Mamdani, Who convinced voters he was their mommy. He’ll make one percenters, Pay for all food and renters, ‘Till the rich leave in a tsunami. This viral internet limerick captures the absurdity of Zohran Mamdani’s smorgasbord of pie-in-the-sky socialist promises and predicts its inevitable outcome. He’s now the mayor-elect…
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Lauren Boebert lands 5th in GOP straw poll, Janak Joshi jumps into 8th CD race | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is Jan. 29, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s middling finish in a straw poll Thursday night drew gasps from the crowd that had just witnessed the Colorado lawmaker face off against eight other Republicans in a congressional primary debate at a rec center in Fort Lupton. The…
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Colorado’s top election official targets AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ in elections
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is targeting AI-generated “disruptors” — such as “deepfakes” — as her office prepares for this year’s elections. Griswold unveiled her legislative priorities at a time of social anxiety over “deepfakes.” This week, pornographic “deepfake” images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent hit the singer Taylor Swift,…
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Colorado’s top election official targets AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ in elections
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is targeting AI-generated “disruptors” – such as “deepfakes” – as her office prepares for this year’s elections. Griswold unveiled her legislative priorities at a time of social anxiety over “deepfakes.” This week, pornographic “deepfake” images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent hit the singer Taylor Swift,…
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Colorado Springs Movers & Shakers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Reza Zaheri has been appointed chief information security officer for Colorado Springs-based software company Quantum Metric. He was the founder of 1:M Cyber Security, a Los Angeles security training company. He also had been director…
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Colorado Springs Movers & Shakers
Reza Zaheri has been appointed chief information security officer for Colorado Springs-based software company Quantum Metric. He was the founder of 1:M Cyber Security, a Los Angeles security training company. He also had been director of digital forensics, incident response and security awareness for DirecTV/AT&T, a security engineer for the Los Angeles law firm Sheppard…
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Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software to be sold to Utah company
Colorado Springs-based Cherwell Software will be acquired by Salt Lake City information technology security company Ivanti in a deal backed by two private equity investment firms, Ivanti announced Tuesday. Affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates are financing the deal; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Cherwell CEO Sam Gilliland said the deal…
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Colorado Springs cost of living ties record
Rising apartment rents played a major role in pushing the cost of living in Colorado Springs to tie a 23-year-old record when compared with the national average, according to a new report. The local cost of living was 104% of the national average in the fourth quarter, up from 103.6% in the third quarter and…