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Doctor Sees No Rest for the Needed in Haitinew
An endless demand for medical care paired with slow-arriving supplies complicate health care efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
04-15-2010 |
Disasters
A Christian Sex-Ed Group Finds a New Use for Duct Tapenew
Education for a Lifetime provides Colorado public school students with a duct tape demo that fails to stick.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
04-08-2010 |
Sex
Sex, Lies and Duct Tape: Science and Morality in Colo. Springs Schoolsnew
A Christian group called Education for a Lifetime regularly gives multi-day "abstinence-centered" programs in several El Paso County school districts. It make a case that no sex before marriage is safe: Even if you escape without a disease or a screaming baby, premarital sex makes you prone to infidelity while reducing your ability to bond with your future spouse.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
04-08-2010 |
Sex
Thinner Caucus Crowds Share Views to Start Election Yearnew
In 2008, Colorado College senior Giancarlo Bizzarro symbolized a year of youthful passion when he urged his Old North End precinct to support Barack Obama, saying, "This is time for a change."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
03-23-2010 |
Politics
Journalist T.R. Reid Makes it Plain: Universal Coverage is the Answernew
The take-home lesson, repeated frequently during an hour-long conversation with the Independent, boils down basically to this: Provide universal health care, and the rest will follow.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-25-2010 |
Science
Colorado Springs Bar Owner Says He's Found a Smoking Ban Loopholenew
After three years fighting the law the owner of Murray Street Darts says he's figured out how he and his customers can continue lighting up legally: He's opened a tobacco shop.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-18-2010 |
Policy Issues
Lawmakers Look to Shake Up the Recycling World, With Tons of Tires Nearbynew
"Our goal is to break even," Chris Houtchens says, describing the financial tightrope he walks each day so that the company he runs with his father, American Tire Exchange, can turn a profit selling usable tires in the states or in Mexico.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-09-2010 |
Environment
Charting the Meltdown: James Balog's Glacier Photographynew
What James Balog saw on his National Geographic shoots led him to launch the Extreme Ice Survey. The project now has 33 cameras set up to take hourly pictures at glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein and Anthony Lane |
01-28-2010 |
Environment
Dude, Where's My Candidate? Dave Gardner's Not Runningnew
Dave Gardner's not running for Colorado Springs Council in 2011, leaving Democrats lost in the city — for now. The progressive Democrat launched two unsuccessful attempts to join the Colorado Springs City Council in 2009.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane and J. Adrian Stanley |
01-14-2010 |
Politics
Released From Prison Today? Expect a New Set of Locked Doors Tomorrownew
The 29 days since Jason Horn left jail have been a blur of bus rides, AA meetings and rejections. Today, with a cold snap tugging the temperature into the single digits, he's taking the No. 3 bus to continue his job search in Old Colorado City.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
01-07-2010 |
Business & Labor
Sudden Chaos: Gov. Ritter's Departure Leaves Dems Sweating, Scramblingnew
Gov. Bill Ritter canceled a campaign event and staffers stopped responding to voicemails (including a call from the Independent). Rumors began hitting the Washington blogs, and sources began leaking the news that Ritter won't be running for re-election.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon and Anthony Lane |
01-07-2010 |
Politics
(Syn)gled Out? Club's Owners Insist Violent Rap Isn't Their Faultnew
Scott Collman and his business partners are reacting to negative stories about a violent couple months outside their club, Syn, culminating in a Dec. 27 shootout in a nearby alley that left one man hospitalized after apparently being shot by a police officer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
01-05-2010 |
Recreation
Officials Struggle to ID Crimes Too Violent for Veterans Courtsnew
After battling for months against post-traumatic stress disorder, Thomas Delgado, an Iraq war veteran ended a night of heavy drinking in September 2008 by hunkering down with a gun in his bathtub. He soon found himself facing a charge of attempted murder.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
12-29-2009 |
War
The Army's Repair Job for Wounded Soldiers Doesn't Always Pass Inspectionnew
After three deployments to Iraq, Spc. James Bell had spent a year in the post's Warrior Transition Unit, getting treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. His greeting to his new unit came as a barked question from a sergeant major: "ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT?"
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
12-15-2009 |
War
The Army's Much-hyped Repair Job for Wounded Soldiers Doesn't Pass Inspectionnew
Two years later, the Warrior Transition Unit appears less a shining success than a public-relations smokescreen, behind which the Army continues breaking its promise to care for wounded soldiers.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
12-10-2009 |
War
