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“How’s it going, Chaney?” local homeless man Kevin Seitz says with a nod, addressing a police officer in a copse of trees in south Colorado Springs. Seitz walks through refuse surrounding his current home: an old camping tent pitched near a highway overpass.

Technology can be tricky; it brings about challenges not present in the past. It might be marketing challenges, fake or spam accounts, or building an online presence – the list of potential tests is long.

In March 2021, Customs and Border Protection confronted over 170,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border. That's up 173 percent since last year and a 71 percent increase from February 2021.

In September 2020, I wrote an article about mask mandates and blatant, legalized discrimination against people with disabilities and medical exemptions. Since then, I have learned of more unfortunate examples, including some found in the comments section of my article. I discovered other examples on Twitter, including one that came from none other than Dr. Naomi Wolf, a best-selling author and self-identified leftist liberal who is also disabled and a Democrat.

Colorado is no stranger to mass shootings. And after every shooting, there are always the questions of: "Why did this happen?" and "How can we prevent this from happening in the future?"

After having more than a dozen meetings, the Colorado Springs Law Enforcement Transparency and Accountability Commission (LETAC) has yet to get to the point where they make official recommendations to the city council. However, the group has addressed a few key issues and they have held three town hall or “listening sessions,” where the community provided input.

On Feb. 16, the City of Woodland Park mourned the death of Mayor Val Carr after he died from complications after contracting COVID-19. Carr spent the two months before his death in a hospital in Colorado Springs fighting for his life after contracting the disease.

Many people in Colorado Springs drive by the large Myron Stratton Home property located on the south side of the city off Highway 115 but have no clue of its history or how it functions today. The fact is that the mysterious property still serves the same function its founder Winfield Scott Stratton dreamed up over 100 years ago.

After the controversy surrounding the Devon Bailey officer-involved shooting in 2019 and the nationwide racial justice movement last year, citizens of Colorado Springs pushed the city council to form a committee that focuses on transparency and accountability in law enforcement.

Recently, Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced he was shifting his politically childish color-oriented COVID-dial from Orange to Yellow for most counties in the state. This was heralded as an easing of the governor’s overly arbitrary and strict edicts of economic destruction in which bars and restaurants were forced to remain 75 percent closed for months on end.