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Colorado Springs has always been marketed as a place with an ideal climate, beautiful scenery and abundant sunshine.

What we think: We need a plan for a water-limited future. Tell us what you think: Send us an email at editorial@csbj.com. Four days after our city’s founding on July 31, 1871, the Colorado Springs Company contracted to build a 6.5-mile canal from Fountain Creek to Gen. William Jackson Palmer’s new town. The reason for haste was simple, as John Harner explains in Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs. “The founders were in the business of selling land, and land with trees, lawns and a steady supply of water was far more valuable than the dry and...

It’s our sesquicentennial year, one that should be full of cheerful events, boring speeches, tedious histories and drinks for all — especially if the pandemic exits stage right! And even if we have to make do with virtual events, we can lift a glass or two at home and thank those who preceded us. Colorado Springs is a vast, continuing communal project, one in which we all participate and from which we should all benefit. Like every human endeavor, our city is imperfect, incomplete and constantly changing. We don’t know what the city will be 150 years hence, but we can look back...