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Here are some of the stories we are following this week. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for up-to-the-minute news.
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Springs Taxpayers United has created and distributed our Colorado Springs City Council candidate survey questions for the 2025 election. We received responses this week from Greg Thornton, who is running for City Council District 3, Dave Donelson, who is running for City Council District 1, Chris Burns, who is running for City Council District 5, Roland Rainey, who is running for City Council District 6, and Dr. Parth Melpakam, who is running for City Council District 6. Check out all of the candidate responses we’ve received, so far, on the Springs Taxpayers United website.
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The Gazette has published a voter guide for the upcoming Colorado Springs City Council race.
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A forum was held for candidates for Colorado Springs City Council District 3 last week. Urban development and public transportation were topics of discussion.
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Since we are having another election for the Colorado Springs City Council, let’s see where donations from developers are going.
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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade is promising stronger enforcement of vagrancy laws in the wake of the growing number of vagrant fires in our city. Arson from vagrants is now the primary cause of wildfires in Colorado Springs.
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The City of Colorado Springs is asking for your help in locating potholes around the city. This won’t be difficult.
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The FBI arrested an illegal alien in Colorado Springs last week who is alleged to have foreign drug cartel ties, and who also has a violent criminal history stretching back 19 years. Do you think taxpayer money was used to pay for his food, clothing, transportation, and shelter in the sanctuary state of Colorado?
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In Denver, one illegal immigrant advocate, who was an illegal immigrant herself, was taken into custody. She had previously been convicted of multiple crimes, including identity theft. She also has multiple deportation orders on file. She’s also been well-connected in Colorado politics for quite a while, and officials like Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser are coming to her defense. Have either of these public servants ever come to your defense?
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Also in Denver this week, 9 people have died on the streets in 9 days. Details are yet to be confirmed, but it’s reasonable to suspect vagrancy and drug use in these deaths. When is it actually cruelty to have a policy that allows addicted and mentally ill people to live on the streets and fend for themselves?
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Remember that time Governor Jared Polis said we are not a sanctuary state? He also signed a law in 2024 that would fast-track driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. This law circumvents many of the previous requirements that were in place before an illegal immigrant was granted a Colorado driver’s license. This seems like a sanctuary policy to us. Will these illegal immigrants now “accidentally” receive voter registration requests like they have multiple times before?
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FEMA is threatening to withhold $32 million in grant money for illegal immigrant shelters in Dever. The agency suspects relief funds are being used for illegal activities.
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The Colorado legislature is also working on bills that would help shelter illegal immigrants from enforcement of federal immigration law. We can’t recall the last time they worked on bills to protect taxpayers. They only protect illegal immigrants, vagrants, and criminals.
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Are you interested in seeing the fiscal impact of bills coming from the Colorado legislative session in 2025? Well, here you go!
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The current acting administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration cites our allegedly non-sanctuary state as ground zero for the violent Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua. The government at all levels uses your tax dollars to traffic human beings into your neighborhoods, and many of them are criminal gangsters.
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This week in, "It’s Good to Be Politically Connected", one former Biden appointee has been given a new job at the University of Colorado. You will be paying him $360,000 per year now in his luxurious government position.
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The copper wire thieves are hard at work in Colorado Springs. This most recent theft caused lighting outages on I-25.
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Colorado Springs has a fun, new website that tracks crime by neighborhood. Now we can all see the results of soft-on-crime policies. How does your neighborhood stack up?
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Speaking of soft-on-crime policies, an illegal immigrant murdered a Denver police officer in 2005. This illegal immigrant, who was employed at a restaurant owned by then-Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, was sentenced to 80 years in prison. He’s about to be released from prison after serving only 20 years, thanks to Colorado’s criminal-friendly laws passed in 2016.
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Colorado Springs Utilities is likely to increase natural gas rates again this winter.
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Colorado Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser says the dismantling of the Department of Education prevents students from getting a quality education. He's suing to keep DOE up and running. As an aside, we aren’t seeing a lot of quality education evidence out there.
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The boutique black and white Colorado vehicle license plates cost extra money. These funds currently go toward providing services to the disabled. Legislators are looking at diverting these funds to help solve the massive budget problem they created.
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Officials in the Jefferson County School District could face charges for fraud. Officials submitted a form indicating that a student was homeless so that this student could move in with a teacher and have a sexual relationship. Yes, they did this. Also, as it turns out, the school district gets paid additional taxpayer money when students are listed as homeless. This is vile on so many levels.
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Some Colorado educators are protesting for an increase in funding. In order to secure more taxpayer funds, they'll walk out of some schools on Thursday. This is the quality education Phil Weiser cites in his lawsuit. Why do government employees always consider themselves entitled to more taxpayer money?
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One Grand Junction city councilman runs a nonprofit that is allowing 20 “troubled” men to live in one house together. Now, other people in the neighborhood are troubled too.
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The Gazette's Editorial Page Editor, Wayne Laugesen, has a new podcast. Guests have included state and local political figures.
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As many of you are aware, Democratic legislators in Colorado have added a long list of taxes, disingenuously labeled fees, that you are forced to pay. They’ve been working hard on this since 2018. Want to see the complete list? It’s really long.
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Here are some upcoming meetings in the area. We hope you can attend one or more! If there are other public meetings you’d like to see announced here, please drop us a line. We are happy to include them in an upcoming newsletter. These might be government-related, candidate, or elected official meetings. Thanks!
Colorado Springs City Council Meetings
Monday, March 24, 9:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council Work Session
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda
Tuesday, March 25, 9:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda
El Paso County Board of County Commissioner Meetings
Tuesday, March 25, 9:00 a.m.
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners
Centennial Hall
200 S. Cascade
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Tuesday, April 1, 9:00 a.m.
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners
Centennial Hall
200 S. Cascade
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Colorado Springs Utilities Board of Directors
Wednesday, April 16, 1:00 p.m.
Utilities Board of Directors
Blue River Board Room
Plaza of the Rockies, South Tower, 5th Floor
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Miscellaneous Meetings of Interest
Monday, April 7, 6:00 p.m.
Law Enforcement Transparency and Advisory Committee
City Hall
107 S. Nevada Avenue, Suite 200
Also, online via Microsoft Teams
Information and Agenda
Thursday, April 10, 6:30 p.m.
Independence Institute Citizen’s Guide to Civic Involvement
Online Meeting
Information and Agenda
View the full Colorado Springs City Council meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings.
View the full Board of El Paso County Commissioners meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings.
View the full Colorado Springs Utilities Board meeting schedule here to see upcoming meetings. Please also follow CSU on their Facebook Page and on Twitter.
Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel. Since most of the City and County board and commission meetings are not televised or recorded, we are trying to remedy that. We now have a camera and tripod for volunteers to check out for future meetings.
If you have a tip about a story in the Pikes Peak region that you aren’t seeing reported, let us know. We will see what we can find out.
How to Contact City and County Officials:
City Hall
107 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs CO 80903
(719) 385-5986
Contact City Council
Mayor's Office
30 S Nevada Avenue, Suite 601
Colorado Springs, CO 80901
(719) 385-5900
Contact Mayors Office
County Commissioners
200 South Cascade Avenue, Suite 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2202
Phone: (719) 520-7276
https://www.elpasoco.com/contact-us/
Thank you!
Rebecca
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