Tag: Colorado Springs Gazette
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Protesters not finding much support among Americans, or Coloradans | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I keep harking back to the lessons of my “War and Violence in the 1960s” class in college as I watch the protests over Gaza and Israel sweep across the country and into Colorado. I…
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Gazette newspapers win multiple Society of Professional Journalist Top of the Rockies awards
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Gazette family of newspapers — Denver Gazette, The Gazette of Colorado Springs and Colorado Politics — earned dozens of journalism awards, including 18 first place finishes and the contest’s most prestigious honors, from the Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies 2024 Contest. The…
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PERSPECTIVE: Denver chief explains Colorado’s soaring crime rate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As Colorado endures a statewide spike in crime — including violence, murders and property crimes — The Gazette’s editorial board met recently with Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen by Zoom to learn about this trend from his perspective. Gazette: Good morning, Chief. The editorial board…
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Colorado school staffs get new violence prevention training
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CASTLE ROCK — After more than two decades of analyzing school shootings, the nation’s top prevention specialists believe they have come up with a framework that presents the best ways to ward off such violence. It’s not an easy fix, they say. But the strategies have…
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Public forums underway to shape what new Colorado Behavioral Health Administration will look like
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Virtual public meetings began this week to help shape the state’s emerging Behavioral Health Administration, an idea from a gubernatorial task force that spent a year studying how to reform Colorado’s admittedly broken mental health care system. Plenty of ideas are being floated about what…
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Public face of Boulder landmark, Celestial Seasonings, remains closed
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Celestial Seasonings, a popular, longtime tourist attraction in Boulder that claims 2.1 million visitors, remains absent from the top things to see and do in the community. And there’s no indication when any or all…
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EDITORIAL: With ‘very real’ nuclear threat, don’t move Space Command
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Nuclear war is “a very real possibility.” That makes the proposed move of Space Command a very dangerous idea. Without time to waste, President Joe Biden should quash this order immediately. If concern about nuclear…
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EDITORIAL: Ask President Biden to fix what Trump broke
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It ain’t rocket science to persuade President Joe Biden how former President Donald Trump was wrong. With that in mind, Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper should insist on an immediate, in-person meeting with…
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PERSPECTIVE: Mrs. Boebert goes to Washington
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the near future, Rep. AOC will meet Rep. LOB — Mrs. Lauren Opal Boebert. Bystanders will watch to see if sparks fly. It might be in the hallways of the U.S. Capitol, in the…
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Foundation started after Sandy Hook shooting to study violence prevention to merge with CU Anschutz Medical Campus center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A foundation started by the parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim is closing and being reborn as a program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Folding the Avielle…