3+ hour, 39+ min ago   (735+ words) Was there ever a Colorado city that required racial segregation by law? The answer is “Yes.” The Black Racial Equity Study Commission, led by Colorado Senate President James Coleman, has learned the small city of Fruita had laws forbidding Black…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (889+ words) You’ve heard the story of Colorado Springs founder Gen. William J. Palmer, but have you heard the story of Joyce Gilmer, the city’s first Black female real estate broker who opened her own company in the mid-1970s? You also likely…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1204+ words) P.J. Anderson spent the better part of two years tracking down hundreds of maps long predating Colorado’s statehood in 1876 as part of a mission that took him to private collections, museums and institutions near and far. This included the Library of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (654+ words) It was known as Fountain Colony as Gen. William Jackson Palmer planned his city and drove that first stake at Pikes Peak and Cascade avenues in 1871. By 1872 it was formally incorporated and officially called Colorado Springs. According to Colorado Springs…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (686+ words) The Palmer Land Conservancy. Cleanup work at Garden of the Gods. A nationwide program for trail stewardship. All three can trace their origins back to one Colorado Springs man’s advocacy work in the 1970s. William “Bill” Ruskin, who died Aug. 9 at…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1118+ words) Tara and Tom Stosek returned to Beulah last Thursday to pick through the charred ruins of the mountain oasis where they’d raised a family, and to finish flash-processing a lifetime’s worth of loss. In less than 24 hours, volunteers with Christian…...