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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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Your state government is currently crying about how much money will be lost to them without taxing tips and overtime. There are already rumors of a special session to address this. We suspect this special session will occur, and they will solve their overspending problem by picking your pocket some more. The team at Advance Colorado discusses this in their latest podcast.
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While your state government plots to steal more from you, a recent report shows that Colorado is the fourth costliest state in the nation. The explosive growth in the cost of government, under the direction of Governor Jared Polis and his radical left cohorts in government, has negatively impacted nearly every aspect of life in Colorado.
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Mesa County Sheriff Todd Rowell is formally apologizing to Attorney General Phil Weiser for his deputy, who shared information with ICE agents. This sharing of information led to the arrest of an illegal alien in the county. The sheriff is attempting to get Weiser to drop his lawsuit against the deputy, calling the lawsuit “demoralizing.” Yes, it is demoralizing. It is Weiser’s objective to demoralize law enforcement and protect illegal aliens. For radical leftists like Weiser, Polis, and their ilk, government power in their hands is supposed to be a demoralizing boot stomping on a human face forever.
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Last week, El Paso County Commissioners unanimously denied a land use application for Xcel Energy to build electrical transmission lines for the Colorado Power Pathway project. This project would transmit electricity from future windmills to Front Range cities, while providing only blight, costs, and zero benefit to communities where this infrastructure would be built.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that pushes local authorities to remove vagrants and street campers from their communities. Won’t it be interesting to watch local officials declare this executive order evil and work to ensure that we continue to deal with the myriad of problems these vagrants bring to civil society?
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In a related vein, the Keep it Clean COS program in Colorado Springs will be impacted by the city’s budget shortfall. So, Mayor Mobolade would like to see residents help clean up the city.
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Another person who would like your help picking up after vagrants is former city councilman Richard Skorman. He, along with several volunteers, regularly meets to pick trash out of the city's streambeds.
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A recent report shows record-high numbers of vagrants camping in El Paso County. Over 1700 street people were counted in this latest survey.
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Citizens are reporting that fewer drifters are car-camping and pitching tents along Mark Dabling Boulevard in Colorado Springs. It appears that enforcing basic laws works.
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Teams in Pueblo are putting a great deal of work into cleaning up trash in the region. A one-day cleanup effort in the Fountain Creek watershed resulted in 1.5 tons of trash, including several shopping carts, and lots of used drug needles.
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The City of Colorado Springs agreed to pay $3.2 million to the estate of a man who, in 2018, was tased up to eight times in ninety seconds by CSPD, and died a short time later.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reporting that nearly 250 illegal immigrants with criminal histories were arrested in Denver recently. Among them were murderers, kidnappers, and sex traffickers. These arrests occurred in just one week of enforcement activities.
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Financial details have been revealed in the proposed deal to get a Buc-ee’s built in Palmer Lake. There is still strong opposition to this project in the town. The vote on this development will take place on August 28.
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When people move out of Colorado, where do they go? This analysis sheds some light on where people end up when they leave Colorado.
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The Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs has taken advantage of taxpayers over the years. They've repeatedly asked for, and been awarded, large sums of cash from city and county officials. Despite all this public funding, the museum continues to struggle. Early on, we at Springs Taxpayers United saw that the Olympic Museum was going to be another taxpayer-funded boondoggle. We were correct.
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In Denver this week, cycling advocates are upset because bicycle projects were excluded from the massive Vibrant Denver bond package that is likely headed to Denver's November ballot.
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Denver can’t clean up the mess left by vagrants, but does have plenty of taxpayer money to fund leftwing activism. New, taxpayer-funded propaganda ads will be placed on billboards, bus shelters, and other locations, mongering global warming fears and encouraging people to stop eating meat. This campaign will cost Denver taxpayers $3 million, all while Denver claims a $200 million budget shortfall.
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Speaking of global warming, a recent report shows that a federal, taxpayer-funded, $7.5 billion program to install electric vehicle chargers, built a mere 384 chargers since 2021. What do you think they really did with all this money? Also, if global warming is such a looming catastrophe, wouldn’t they take this effort more seriously?
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The Town of Manitou Springs held a public discussion about its city budget shortfall this week. They published their future plan for the public to review. Manitou officials state they have lost over $4 million in marijuana tax revenue.
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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, August 11, 9:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council Work Session
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
Tuesday, August 12, 9:00 a.m.
Colorado Springs City Council
107 N. Nevada, 3rd floor
Live stream link here
Agenda not yet posted
El Paso County Board of County Commissioners Meetings
Tuesday, August 5, 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, August 26, 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, August 20, 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, August 4, 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
Friday, August 22, 9:00 a.m.
Front Range Passenger Rail Board of Directors Meeting
Online Meeting - Registration Required
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 a 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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