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February 13, 2009
Impressive Salon.com series looks at the dark side of Fort Carson soldiers returning from Iraq
A colorful view of journalist Michael de Yoanna. Every nanosecond of every day, new writing appears on the Internet -- and for the most part, that's a good thing. All too often, however, important reportage gets lost in the flood. Today's, for instance: "Coming Home," a series of investigative repo ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Fort Carson and brigade politics
The public-affairs office at Fort Carson hasn't issued a press release about the Army's decision not to base an additional brigade there -- a move that calls into doubt millions in additional contracts, not to mention even more money in long-term economic impact. The most recent news items on its ... More >>
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March 20, 2003
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UNDER THE GUN
AFTER LISTENING TO COLORADO'S PATRIOTS, FRANCISCO DURAN SHOT OFF MORE THAN HIS MOUTH.
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July 7, 2009
New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated
A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
They're baaaack: the black helicopters of Yoder
Cue the Wagner: Blackhawks buzz the Kirby ranch.All Shellie Kirby wants is a place where she and her husband Mark can live in peace with their Spanish mustang, Rebel, and their other horses and burros. But their seventy-acre ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County, where the couple ha ... More >>
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September 18, 2009
Fort Carson: Those aren't our black helicopters!
Mystery choppers over the Kirby ranch.A recent blog item featured several photos of the black helicopters of Yoder, which have been buzzing Shellie Kirby's ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County for the past three years. Kirby has filed several complaints with Fort Carson, the Nation ... More >>
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October 1, 2009
An unlikely posse of politicians wants to save Pinon Canyon from a bad guy: the Army
Mystery choppers over the Kirby ranch.A recent blog item featured several photos of the black helicopters of Yoder, which have been buzzing Shellie Kirby's ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County for the past three years. Kirby has filed several complaints with Fort Carson, the Nation ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Hold your horses!
Twenty-five years ago, the Department of Defense took over 235,000 acres of ranchland in southeastern Colorado -- the largest condemnation of private property in the country. And the Army's not done yet. Six years ago, word surfaced that the feds would try to add another 400,000 acres to the ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
From the week of October 15, 2009
Twenty-five years ago, the Department of Defense took over 235,000 acres of ranchland in southeastern Colorado -- the largest condemnation of private property in the country. And the Army's not done yet. Six years ago, word surfaced that the feds would try to add another 400,000 acres to the ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Josh Penry campaign scoffs at Scott McInnis' reasons for not debating
"Put down your weapons. I come in peace."This morning, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis' responded to critics of his decision not to debate his fellow Republican rivals with a Denver Post op-ed in which he argued that while "GOP candidate forums" are fine, direct faceoffs will do more ha ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Meanwhile, back at the ranch... and Pinon Canyon
Representative Wes McKinley is sitting in a bar in Denver, but his mind is hundreds of miles away -- on the rangeland of southeastern Colorado, that stunning swathe of cactus and canyons and ranches that have been in families for generations. The land that the U.S. Army would like to conquer ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Can a veterans court help former GIs find justice here at home?
Representative Wes McKinley is sitting in a bar in Denver, but his mind is hundreds of miles away -- on the rangeland of southeastern Colorado, that stunning swathe of cactus and canyons and ranches that have been in families for generations. The land that the U.S. Army would like to conquer ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Justin Carter got out of the Army — and got in trouble
Representative Wes McKinley is sitting in a bar in Denver, but his mind is hundreds of miles away -- on the rangeland of southeastern Colorado, that stunning swathe of cactus and canyons and ranches that have been in families for generations. The land that the U.S. Army would like to conquer ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
Sgt. Brian Kelly Wells: Fort Carson soldier makes long drive to get busted for Internet luring
Presumably, Sgt. Brian Kelly Wells thought it would be worth the commute.If charges against him are true, Sgt. Brian Kelly Wells, who's stationed at Fort Carson, wanted to have sex with an underage girl so badly that he was willing to drive all the way from Colorado Springs to Adams County to ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Westboro Baptist Church's latest target: Late Aurora soldier Sean Durkin
Courtesy of Fort CarsonSgt. Sean Durkin: Hasn't his family suffered enough?The virulent homophobes (and anti-semites) of Westboro Baptist Church will supposedly begin protesting at various locations around our area on Thursday -- if they actually turn up, that is. They were no-shows at a Boul ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Roll On
Courtesy of Fort CarsonSgt. Sean Durkin: Hasn't his family suffered enough?The virulent homophobes (and anti-semites) of Westboro Baptist Church will supposedly begin protesting at various locations around our area on Thursday -- if they actually turn up, that is. They were no-shows at a Boul ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
Westboro Baptist Church haters threaten to picket funeral of Golden's Sgt. Grant Wichmann
Fred Phelps's evil flock is at it again.The appalling Bible-twisters at the Westboro Baptist Church are at it again. Less than two weeks ago, the WBC horror show rolled into Colorado, targeting a variety of schools, synagogues and more. While here, they spread their usual brand of ignorance: ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Fort Carson revelations: 40 percent of soldiers may have undiagnosed brain injuries
A Flickr photoHere's possibly the best evidence yet that something very, very wrong is occurring at Fort Carson, the giant Army base in Colorado Springs: A joint NPR and ProPublica investigation into how the military handles brain injuries has found that as many as 40 percent of Fort Carson ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Ramone Hollins: Fort Carson soldier busted for MMJ burglary says he wanted to destroy the pot
Large photos below.As we noted on Monday, the bust of three men trying to burglarize a Colorado Springs dispensary was an example of clever police work -- but the excuse used by arrestee Ramone Hollins was even more inventive. Hollins -- a Fort Carson soldier, as were his alleged accomplices ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Reader: Soldier who said he robbed MMJ center to destroy pot did want to burn it, all right
Ramone Hollins.Did you catch our story about Ramone Hollins, one of three Fort Carson soldiers caught breaking into a Colorado Springs medical marijuana dispensary who claimed his goal had been to destroy the weed, not to steal it? One reader who did had a funny response to this excuse.
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December 6, 2010
Shawn Lynch's Fort Carson controversy: KUNC tracks soldier's brain-injury-diagnosis struggles
The signature battle wounds for Iraq and Afghanistan vets are post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) -- ailments that are difficult to diagnose and easy for officials to ignore. While vet advocates like Andrew Pogany and innovative treatment programs like El ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
Ronald Eugene Beach gets 20 years for abusing granddaughters, ages 3 and 5, at Fort Carson
Ronald Eugene Beach, 63, has been sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for sexual abuse of minors, and the stipulated facts included in his plea agreement on view below certainly present a strong, and disturbing, case for the sentence's length. The targets? His own granddaughters, who ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Parris Mathis: Weed apparently didn't mellow man accused of beating couple with spirit stick
Big pic below.Was Parris Mathis immune to marijuana's well-known calming effects? You've gotta wonder given the police release about his arrest. Seems he got into an argument with a woman for "sitting on the stairwell" (!), and when a man tried to intervene, he allegedly pummeled both of them ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
The War Next Door
Rich in history and imperiled species, Pinon Canyon isn't like any other place on earth. Locals fear that the Army wants to tear the hell out of it.
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February 23, 2011
Leaked documents show Army's bold plan to acquire 10,000 square miles of Colorado
Artillery ranges and tank maneuvers on fragile grasslands. Depopulated farm towns, suitable for urban warfare exercises for thousands of troops. A military installation the size of Massachusetts, sprawling across southern Colorado from Trinidad to the Kansas border. If you're going to plan, p ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Dog shooting: Owner of bull mastiff shot after attacking greyhound gets banned-dog summons
Big pic below.Update: As we noted yesterday, no charges were filed in the immediate aftermath of an incident in which a man shot a 140-pound dog after it attacked his greyhound -- and that remains the case at this writing. However, the owner of the dead pet -- a bullmastiff named Flato -- has ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Plastic army men struggle with PTSD in British artists' ode to Colorado Springs soldiers
We've all seen those molded green plastic soldiers; they're a staple of every kid's childhood and, thanks to the Toy Story series, heroes of the big screen. But we've never seen plastic soldiers like this -- begging for money, assaulting women, placing a rifle under their chin. It's the arr ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Scott Tipton under pressure: Can he restore Pinon Canyon funding ban?
Scott TiptonRanchers in southeast Colorado battling the Army's grand expansion schemes for the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site watched in dismay this week as a congressional subcommittee removed from its budget bill a provision that has kept the military from acquiring additional land for the 367 ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Pinon Canyon: Scott Tipton gets ban on military expansion restored
Scott Tipton.Under pressure from ranchers to take as strong a stand against Army expansion in southern Colorado as his Democrat predecessor, freshman Republican congressman Scott Tipton managed to get a funding ban reinstated in a bill yesterday, earning him kudos from some of his sharpest cr ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Anthony Silva, Army sergeant, ID'd as man killed walking his dog on Paris Street (12)
Big pics below.Update: The man found murdered near a Motel Six on the 3800 block of Paris Street early Saturday morning has been ID'd as Anthony Silva, an army sergeant stationed at Fort Carson. He was due for discharge soon and was headed back to Illinois to visit with his family. Denver Po ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Medical marijuana: Three-peat of attempted dispensary burglaries baffle owner
Verde Wellness.Verde Wellness's Chuck Blackton locks up his medical marijuana buds, edibles, hash and tinctures in a Volkswagen-sized, all-but-dynamite-proof safe each night. So does every dispensary owner who follows the law (or has any sense) -- which makes the three after-hours break-ins V ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Pinon Canyon: Scott Tipton blasts Army effort to rename site
Scott Tipton.No question, rebranding can be a bitch. Is that Slinky in the CenturyLink commercials really an improvement over the Qwest lightbeam? But nothing quite spells "public relations fiasco" like the U.S. Army's clueless attempt to change the name of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site to " ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Pinon Canyon foes blast Army's plans for helicopter missions
Lately, ranchers and community leaders in southeastern Colorado are feeling a bit like the battle-weary Michael Corleone of The Godfather Part III. Every time you think you're out, they pull you back in -- "they" being the Pentagon planners seeking more intense use of the Pinon Canyon Maneuve ... More >>
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