AltWeeklies Wire
After Layoffs, City Bus Drivers are Being Taxed on Money They Never Receivednew
"It's not right, what's being done. It's bad enough to shut down the careers of so many people that they've put decades into, but then not to pay the money that they have coming — that's really a slap."
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-18-2010 |
Economy
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
Rachael Flatt is OK About Being Overlookednew
Rachael Flatt knows better than to label herself the favorite in women's figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Flatt, the Cheyenne Mountain High School senior fresh off winning the 2010 U.S. championship, generally is considered to have only an outside chance at a medal here at the Vancouver Games.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
02-18-2010 |
Sports
Tags: Mirai Nagasu, Rachael Flatt
By Encouraging Skaters to 'Command the Ice,' Coach has Commanded Respectnew
Tom Zakrajsek of Colorado Springs has spent 21 years patiently working and waiting for the moment when he finally could call himself an Olympic figure skating coach.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
02-18-2010 |
Sports
If Community Centers Close, the Fallout Could Be Immeasurablenew
It seems the community centers need a miracle. But the people who love them aren't waiting for one. In the last month, moms, dads, grandparents and high schoolers have come together with great joy, enthusiasm and imagination and put up one hell of a fight.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-18-2010 |
Economy
Live Through This: Ten Years On, Otep Shamaya Still Rages Against the Machinenew
What really sets the singer and her band apart from their legion of metal brethren is Otep Shamaya's lyrical bent, which is light years away from good old mythology, misogyny and unrequited hate.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-11-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Human Rights Activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu On How We Can Healnew
Amid all the activities to which Nontombi Naomi Tutu is committed — taking groups to South Africa, facilitating women's retreats through her Sister Sojourner organization, co-writing a book — being mother of three actually speaks loudest to her professional mission.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
02-11-2010 |
Race & Class
Poor and Homeless People May Grow Food in Downtown's Oft-Abused Parknew
Colorado Springs nonprofits hope to grow food that will be tended by homeless people, poor folks and runaway teenagers, with all of it going to feed the hungry.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-11-2010 |
Environment
Professionals Tackle Everything From Head Chatter to Headlinesnew
Outside camera range, a supporting cast of hundreds, from physicians to worker bees, will toil to bring years of unsung work to fruition, a contribution that doesn't go unnoticed by the athletes.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
02-11-2010 |
Sports
U.S. Women's Hockey Team Sizes Up Another Round of Olympic Glorynew
Everything about the latest women's team has been developing and aiming toward the 2010 Winter Olympics, which start this weekend in Vancouver. But in the challenging world of global competition, there's no wiggle room in pursuing goals.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Ralph Routon |
02-11-2010 |
Sports
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
Writer Captures New Dimensions of Old West Legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidnew
Growing up in a small Missouri town in "the heart of Jesse James country," Mark Lee Gardner and his friends would chase each other through the schoolyard pantomiming holdups, manhunts and violent showdowns. "We all wanted to be Jesse James," he muses.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
02-09-2010 |
Nonfiction
The Doomtree Emcee Gets Philosophical About Hip-Hopnew
From an artistic standpoint, it's hard not to be impressed by Dessa's debut album, which was released two weeks ago to widespread acclaim. The title gets it half right: A Badly Broken Code surely deconstructs the tropes of hip-hop and recombines them in unexpected ways, but it's more than competently done.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dining Alone In Public Doesn't Have to be Miserable... Does It?new
A few centuries after Benjamin Franklin first strolled down a Philadelphia street chewing on a loaf of bread, dining alone in public is still uncommon enough to carry a certain social stigma. So much so, in fact, that the resulting anxieties have become something of a cultural meme.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-04-2010 |
Food+Drink
Refugee Uses Website to Help Others Learn About Sudannew
The horrors of Sudan, halfway across the world, still chug in Duop Wuol's veins, urging him to do something. So this month, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs philosophy major, husband, father of four, and former Southern Sudan refugee waged a truly all-American protest: He started a website.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-04-2010 |
International
