Tag: tom cronin
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Kamala Harris gains momentum after last week’s presidential debate | Cronin and Loevy
Sixty-seven million Americans watched an ABC-sponsored presidential campaign debate last week between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump spoke for about 43 minutes. Harris spoke for about 38 minutes. She was poised, confident and generally effective. He was dour, snarly and, as usual, given to too many windy exaggerations. She somehow…
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Are Coloradans ready for ranked choice voting? | Cronin and Loevy
Citizen Initiative 310, backed by a few Denver political reformers, will be on your Nov. 5 general election ballot. It proposes a major overhaul of how Coloradans would vote in state and congressional elections — but not for local and presidential elections. This reform is named ranked choice voting. It is being supported by the “Colorado…
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Harris hits a home run as Democrats ‘party it up’ in Chicago
What a turnaround story. Democrats meeting at their National Convention in Chicago showed President Joe Biden some love, yet they also showed him the “exit.” Democrats feared a divisive national convention with multiple presidential contenders and the possibility of rioting pro-Palestinian protesters in the streets of the Windy City. This didn’t happen. Humorist Will Rogers…
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Update on the building-height limits debate
Colorado Springs is a pro-growth city. Real estate developers are the biggest donors to election campaigns for local public office. A proposed 27-story apartment building, taller than any other building downtown, will very likely be built in the near future. But there are some city volunteer homeowner associations that are planning to fight these plans…
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Phase one of Rock Island Greenway makes progress | Cronin and Loevy
Rock Island Greenway Advocates, the citizens’ group that supports turning the old Rock Island Railroad right of way away into a lengthy neighborhood park, have presented phase one of their redevelopment plan. It will create a 4.5-acre public park just to the south of Mann Middle School and Stratton Elementary School between Templeton Gap Road…
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Not the presidential election most Americans want | Cronin and Loevy
The two central questions going into Thursday night’s CNN-sponsored presidential campaign debate between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were: Is Biden too old and not agile enough for the job? Is Trump too dangerous and too prone to lying? Biden flunked. He stumbled on statistics and was often inaudible. He was continually on the…
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Old North End wins national recognition for best front yards | Cronin and Loevy
Last month, the Old North End in Colorado Springs was named one of the 130 best neighborhoods in the United States in terms of front-yard appearance. More than 3,000 real estate professionals nationwide participated in the selection. The attractiveness of homes when viewed from the street, as well as historical character, were among the standards.…
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Colorado’s 5th Congressional District: GOP slugfest, Dems competing, too | Cronin and Loevy
Colorado has eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Colorado Springs and its suburbs have been in the 5th Congressional District ever since it was created by the state legislature in the early 1970s. The 5th District used to include about 10 counties, stretching out to Salida, Leadville, Golden and Elizabeth. Now, it is…
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A look back at the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Cronin and Loevy
Monday is the 60th anniversary of the successful cloture vote in the U.S. Senate that enabled final enactment, on July 2, 1964, of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was the law that made illegal all forms of racial segregation in public businesses throughout the United States. The big obstacle to a civil…
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Pleasant Valley neighborhood: Where Garden of the Gods is the backyard | Cronin and Loevy
Twenty years before Gen. William J. Palmer founded the city of Colorado Springs in 1871, the first real neighborhood in our community was formed just south of what is now the Garden of the Gods Park. It was at the point where Camp Creek flows into Fountain Creek near what is now 31st Street. Camp…