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Adoptive family seeks award for bomb dog that went to war
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Ruby and Wade Ridpath with their combat veteran dog, Carlos, who served five years as an explosive-detecting dog in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Ridpaths nominated Carlos for the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards in the military dog category. by Erin Prater erin.prater@gazette.com – “Bring him home.” As Ruby Ridpath typed those words into an [...]
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Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s ‘gentlest giraffe’ dies at age 32
Life Published: Tue, June 18, 2013
Courtesy of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo The Gazette – The most recognizable giraffe at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, known for her unique, nearly all-white coloring, died Tuesday morning due to complications of old age. Becky, a 32-year-old reticulated giraffe, had been on a “quality of life watch” for about a year and a half, the [...]
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DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: The dogs who went Hollywood
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by t.d. mobley-martinez tracy@coloradosprings.com – I love dogs. And I’m not alone. Which is probably why they have found themselves pictured or portrayed since men began to walk upright. Cave paintings and Egyptian murals. Those “Blue Dog” paintings. Tin Tin’s Snowy, L. Frank Baum’s Toto in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Astro, Scooby Doo and [...]
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Sky Sox use Chris Volstad’s pitching, solid defense to top Tacoma 4-1
Sports Published: Tue, June 18, 2013
by JOE PAISLEY joe.paisley@gazette.com – Colorado Springs starter Chris Volstad got into a rhythm and the Sky Sox defense came up with three big double plays to down Tacoma 4-1 Tuesday night. The first two double plays ended Rainier scoring threats in the second and seventh innings and the final, a line drive grab by [...]
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New hires, promotions & honors
Business Published: Wed, June 19, 2013
The Gazette – Tom Reiter has been named chief executive officer and president of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services, which provides a continuum of services to people who are elderly, blind, brain injured, disabled or living with diabetes or AIDS. Reiter will start July 1. He has more than 23 years experience in health-care organizations, [...]
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Army show at home base brings a case of nerves for Fort Carson soldier
Military Published: Mon, June 10, 2013
In The Soldier Show, the stars of the show are not only performers, but soldiers. The Soldier Show travels the world to entertain our soldiers and their families. The show came to Ft. Carson on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) by erin prater erin.prater@gazette.com – hen the Army’s “Soldier Show” rolled into [...]
How is it a cheap political stunt? Sounds like a good idea to me.
Stunt? I think that’s called being prudent. It sounds completely reasonable to me. Besides, if Lionel says it, you know it’s wrong.
Cheap political stunt?
Did you even read the newspaper Mayor Rivera?
Your City Clerk continues to make one mistake after another. It’s not like someone is demanding her resignation. They want an elections observer, what’s the big deal?
Here is the full text of the complaint and letter. Seems pretty much like a common sense move on the part of Brian Bahr and the guys who are joining him.
http://springsmayor.com/announcements/bahr-joins-other-candidates-in-formal-request-of-sos
… and Rivera is ONE CHEAP POLITICIAN WHO SHOULD KNOW…
YOUNG? WHAT A CARTOON!
It is likely a good idea, but they could have just asked for an observer, and not made a news event out of it.
Still looking to be in the limelight, eh Lyin’el? Thought you’d be busy trying to rewrite local history by working on your memoir.
Nobody really cares what Liarnel says anymore.
Lets just hope he goes away QUICKLY after the election.
This would have more credibility and less aura of political gamesmanship if 100% of the candidates had signed on.
That being said, this process being scrutinized can serve to re-assure us that all is well with the system – or, point out changes that need to be made.
What do figureheads know?………….If our city council was honest in their dealings with the voter,s, we wouldn’t have to worry. Don’t trust our local (cspu) they want a city council that will agree with their every rate hikes, and what ever is in Mr. Forte agenda.
It would have been nice to have had an observer when Mr. Rivera was giving out money to the USOC, who had no intentions of leaving in the first place!
Is this a RHINO saying don’t worry?
Our next Mayor is going to have to have the “stones” to get rid of any incompetent non-performing employees that may be in key positions. Lionel days are numbered and his sphere of influence has faded.
We can all see your lips moving but all we here is BLAH BLAH BLAH…LIE LIE LIE. A vote of confidence from you? That is truly laughable!!!!!!
Dear Duhbya Lite: you’re totally irrelevant now, and the city is better for it: good riddance to bad rubbish. Don’t let the door hit you in the keester, especially since your head is up there. Maybe you could take your blow-up doll Southern Delivery Barbie with you when you go.
See ya.
Reader comments are encouraged, but please, let’s keep it civil.
Thanks.
Daniel
civ·il /ˈsɪvəl/ [siv-uhl]
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
2. of the commonwealth or state: civil affairs.
3. of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.
4. of the citizen as an individual: civil liberty.
5. befitting a citizen: a civil duty.
6. of, or in a condition of, social order or organized government; civilized: civil peoples.
7. adhering to the norms of polite social intercourse; not deficient in common courtesy: After their disagreement, their relations were civil though not cordial.
8. marked by benevolence: He was a very civil sort, and we liked him immediately.
9. (of divisions of time) legally recognized in the ordinary affairs of life: the civil year.
10. of or pertaining to civil law.
I see nothing here that strays from these definitions. If what you mean is ‘cordial’, then sorry: no. Public figures are subject to satire and criticism; nothing has been said here that couldn’t be part of a late-night TV monologue.
The candidate’s complaints are valid, and their request for an election observer in the wake of Kathy Young’s missteps is more than warranted.
Too many mistakes have bee made.
Sonnet,
My request for civility was actually triggered by your “blow-up doll” comment, which, in my opinion, was immature and unnecessary.
But if you choose to express yourself in that manner, more power to you.
Daniel
I really try to encourage civility on these boards, and try to live it- but I have to admit to literally laughing out loud when I read Sonnet’s comment. Maybe I don’t get what was so insulting about the “blow-up doll” part of it.
Agnostigirl2,
Maybe I’m being too sensitive, but the comment seemed inappropriate.
If I’m wrong. I’ll be the first to apologize.
Daniel
“My request for civility was actually triggered by your “blow-up doll” comment”
I had assumed so, Mr. Chacon. That’s your opinion. Again, nothing that wouldn’t be said on a late-night monologue, well within the realm of acceptable satire. I do certainly choose to express myself in that manner from time to time, and will continue to do so. I characterize that as civility because what I DIDN’T say is much more harsh.
An addendum: matters of opinion don’t fall within the realm of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. I neither require an apology nor offer one.
Sonnet,
We’re good.
Daniel
This letter from Mayor Rivera is exactly the problem at City Hall. All they ever do is circle the wagons and defend a failed bureaucracy. It’s time for a change. It’s time for a new culture at City Hall. That’s exactly why Brian Bahr is running for Mayor.
I notice the Mayor used the media to fire off his baseless accusations, why shouldn’t the campaigns that filed the request with the Secretary of State inform voters of the issues at the City Clerk’s office and the solution they are proposing to ensure a fair and honest election in the same manner?
This is not about the candidates and is no cheap stunt, its a serious issue that remains unresolved at the city. The citizens deserve better and the voters deserve to know the results on Election Day are accurate.
I applaud all the candidates who signed onto this request and encourage the other candidates to consider adding their name as well.
Let me guess, you people are the same ones that bought into the “Great Hope” BS of the Obama campaign. Yeah, where’s your hope now? Now you are all buying the strong mayor BS hope campaign…you people never learn. It seems to me that the ones who are “worried” are the ones who don’t have a shot and are setting themselves up later to whine about their future loss in the election. I hope the state does observe so I don’t have to listen to the idiots after the election.
@itnotmeitsu–I agree!
By having the state observe the election we will all be confident that the final tally is accurate and we will avoid any post-election difficulties!
Given that this is the same City Clerk that closes her office to the public two days a week to protest city budget cuts, I think this oversight request is prudent.
If she disrespects the public in that regard, who’s to say she’s actually going to accurately count their votes?
I am not questioning anyone’s integrity, but considering the magnitude of this election and the big change that is to come to Colorado Springs, I think it is a prudent measure.
Seriously? Mr. Mayor, you are a prime example of some of the jacka$$ery that has gone in around here that prompted this!
I thought Ms. Young’s job had nothing to do with the election process. She is asked a question and she states “it’s not my job”. Rivera is a puppet and I can’t wait until his arse is hit by the door on the way out.
I have to agree with the Mayor on this one.
We all know who the next Mayor is going to be – and the sore losers are aready causing problems.
I’m with the Mayor on this one. Based on his radio ad, Brian Bahr is a first class jerk, Dougie Bruce reformatory school boy, and a wannabe. He will lose – fair and square.
Rivera is a snake in the grass and always has been. He has scheming and cheating down to an art!! Rivera is concerned that a smidget of his antics will be uncovered from past elections once a middle man is there to ensure the Clerks Office is following the rules…Just hide and watch!
I am just glad I don’t live in Colorado Springs!!!
Are these comments being made by those who voted for Mayor Rivera? Nice support!
No, lumpy, all these comments are were baited by the G’s self-anointed news monopoly. It’s a shill! Don’t believe everything you read in this tabloid.
Just another of a series of blow up dolls fabricated by the G, adorned with half-truths and innuendo, inflated with the hot air of so-called “reporters and libertarian op-editors.
not so fast,
What are you talking about? Will you please point to the “half-truths and innuendo” that you’re referring to? Please be specific.
Thanks.
Daniel
Exhibit A: WL’s Poll today:
”
Should the secretary of state oversee our city’s April election, as an additional check and balance?
Yes, we need more oversight
No, I trust city government
Don’t care
”
Typical token oversimplification, dchacon. As if the G wants to referee the entire process. Better yet, forget polling places or mail-in ballots: just click this local rag’s electronic poll, then banter in lock-step with the cents-per-click Gazette City Steering blog.
Exhibit B:
“Without fail, each election was conducted objectively, unbiased, fair, honest, with complete transparency and in accordance with state law.”
the letter was addressed to the SOS, not the G.
Despite this, neither you nor Laugesen accept that fact, but bait the reader, presuming that there isn’t enough oversight and that bureaucratic redundancy that may usurp local government checks and balances is always a good thing.
Exhibit C:
“In the last several months, there have been ongoing concerns regarding Colorado Springs City Clerk Kathryn Young and her office,”
And who keeps repeating the concerns other than the G? “Ongoing..” is an implication that a daily tabloid continually dredges stories for lack of more current news.
Exhibit D: (bottom of Laugesen’e editorial 3/16/11)
“Few in Colorado Springs trust city government today. In case anyone didn’t get the memo, we have a major schism between voters who won’t approve tax increases and city officials who repay them with dark streets, no trash cans in parks and lackluster maintenance of the most visible city property. That’s why voters overwhelmingly approved a sweeping change to the structure of city government last fall. Trust the system? We voted to overhaul it.
… The Gazette also understands that a lot of people in Colorado Springs … have lost faith in the system.”
I know you can’t speak for Wayne, but you must admit he takes a lot of latitude with the terms “Few in Colorado Springs” , “a lot of people”, and “We voted”: he’s obviously drawing conclusions based on reader comments that HE baited.
Baiting Exhibit E: (Laugesen’s very-recent plea to cast symbolic votes boosting Colorado Springs’ tourist destination image above Padukah):
More than seven responses he himself made to commenters, mostly disputing their honest opinions. Worse are his freelance buddy’s self-advertising retorts by Broadside (Seth Richardson). You guys seem bent on driving readers away from substantive news and into endless polemics. Just for clicks.
not so fast,
I’m at the Utilities Board meeting right now, but I’ll try to address your points.
Exhibit A: I didn’t create the poll. You’ll have to take that up with Wayne. I’m part of the News Department, not the Editorial Department.
Exhibit B: True, the letter was addressed to the SOS, but it’s our job to give readers the news. If, for example, the mayor wrote a letter to the president of the United States, are we not supposed to report it since it was addressed to the president?
Exhibit C: The candidates and members of the public have been raising concerns about the City Clerk’s Office. Again, it’s our job to report the news.
Finally, I would appreciate it if you’d stopped calling the Gazette “the local rag” and the “daily tabloid.” It’s unnecessary and doesn’t add anything to the debate.
Again, I’m at the Utilities Board meeting right now, but I’d be more than happy to talk to you.
Thanks.
Daniel
not so fast,
Exhibits D and E need to be addressed by Wayne. I can only speak for myself and my work. If you look at this blog post, you’ll notice that I presented various viewpoints, from the mayor and the city clerk to the candidates who requested the election monitor. In other words, I believe my work was fair and balanced.
Daniel
LET’S JUST WATCH AND SEE WHERE “CAPTAIN STRAIGHT ARROW” WINDS UP.
WORKING FOR THE USOC DOWN THE LINE?
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum
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