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Candidate did not respond to the survey. Richard Skorman: Now, more than ever, we need experienced leadership to help navigate the complex and connected problems we face. I’m a serious policy guy with decades of service to the city of Colorado Springs. After serving on City Council for 11 years, President for four years, Vice Mayor for two, I’ve dedicated a majority of my adult life to public service. If re-elected, I believe we will continue to collaboratively, pragmatically, and pro-actively solve many of the issues we face as a city. We will need this experience to continue to recover ...

Black lives matter, yet schools continue to leave Black children behind. The failure must end, say civil rights advocates, before racial justice can prevail. They hope the convergence of nationwide

The United States celebrates the birth of the great Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in January and Black History Month in February. While we celebrate civil rights progress, we do so as public schools continue failing generations of Black and brown children. We celebrate civil rights this year in reflection of 2020, one of the most challenging years in modern history. King’s holiday and Black History Month highlight the value of exemplary, courageous leadership in the face of seemingly unmovable opposition. It’s been said leadership is simply the ability to influence, to convince other...

Nine years ago, Ebonyneke Futrell left a small city in southwest Oklahoma and headed west toward Colorado’s mountains in search of a safer place to raise her three young children. Futrell was 23 years old when her older brother, Emmett, was shot and killed in front of an apartment complex in their hometown of Lawton, Okla., said her godsister, Amberly Taylor. The year her brother was killed, he was one of nine homicides in Lawton, which had a population then of 90,000. She decided to seek refuge in Colorado Springs, a city with more than five times Lawton's population, but with a much lowe...

Heidi Beedle On Jan. 20, a coalition of left-leaning political groups, including the Denver Communists, the Denver Anti-Fascist League, the Front Range Mutual Aid Network and others led a march from Cheeseman Park to the State Capitol building for a “No Honeymoon for Biden” rally. The march was both in response to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and to President Joe Biden’s inauguration.  A joint statement from the groups read in part, “There is no difference between the ideology of the Klan or Nazi party and the creeps who ca...