*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on July 29, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. It’s not hard to find. In fact, there’s a marker, a relatively plain one, at the southeast corner of Pikes Peak and Cascade…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on June 21, 2021. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Colorado Springs needs a worthy adversary. A competitor that pushes the city to make us sharper, stronger, better, more thoughtful. Author Simon Sinek describes a “worthy adversary” as…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on March 18, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. If Colorado Springs is all grown up now, what was it like as a baby? It grew fast. 150 years ago there…
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on March 4, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. William Jackson Palmer and Pierre de Coubertin would have gotten along like two hogs in the cool mud on a hot day. …
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on October 8, 2020. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Legendary science-fiction author Robert Heinlein (who wrote “Starship Troopers”) once lived near the Broadmoor on Mesa Avenue. In 1952, he wrote…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 13, 2020. An image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Los Angeles is a continental-sized economy that fits into a city’s footprint. Its economy is larger than Australia’s, so it’s not hard to see why…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on July 9, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Nobody likes potholes. Nobody. They’re like the plague that way. Broccoli to kids. Glitter to adults. Kryptonite to…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on April 29, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. I was running. Dawn was still rising, and I was headed east toward downtown Colorado Springs on the…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on March 26, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. The real “No Man’s Land” was the deadly zone between World War I’s opposing armies, and its frightening…
*Note: This essay was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette print edition on February 15, 2019. It can also be found online here, an image of the column is included below, as well as the text of the essay. Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part Friday series on the history found along U.S. 24…