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“I went underneath the pickup truck and was dragged until the driver realized there was somebody underneath,” recalls the Colorado Springs cyclist, who declines to be named due to an ongoing court case. He was just one of 98 cyclists injured or killed in a motor-vehicle vs. bicycle accident in Colorado Springs last year, at a time when the U.S. is seeing a national rise in casualties associated with increases in “road-sharing.”

State Senator Bob Gardner (R-Colorado Springs) says he proposed a short-term rental tax-increase at the General Assembly in order to “start a conversation.” And on that score he succeeded, by creating one of the most heated early debates of the 2020 legislative session.

Speciality coffee.

The words naturally conjure images of flannel-bedecked hipster millennials sipping creamy latte art and talking Danish philosophy in a metropolis like Chicago or Portland. But despite its cultural and spatial distance from the big city, something is brewing in the Springs’ coffee culture, where a vibrant blend of local coffee specialists and passionate transplants is shaping Colorado Springs coffee community for the better.

The Maverick Observer is doing a two-part series on bike lanes. This video is the first part of our series. Reporter Anna Brown digs into the statistics surrounding bike lanes in Colorado Springs. As the city continues to expand bike lanes and remove traffic lanes our research shows ridership remains at an all-time low of just 0.6%. Below is our Community Report Card from the League of American Bicyclists, gathered from the 2017 American Community Survey. The information is a 5-year estimate of our data found in the B08006 Table-Means of Transportation to Work by Sex provided by the Census Bureau.

Highlights from Monday’s City Council Work Session, February 24, 2020:

HomeCOS: Housing our future, a comprehensive affordable and attainable housing plan for the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Highlights from Monday’s City Council Work Session, February 10, 2020:

-Garden of the Gods Commercial Use Permit: Matt Mayberry reiterated that the new permit requirements at city parks DID NOT apply to commercial photographers taking wedding photos unless they were going to close part of the park for their activities.

As a concerned citizen of Colorado Springs, I’m fascinated by city politics and the goings-on of Colorado Springs City Council and the Mayor. Every two weeks the city council has two meetings – Monday: City Council Work Session and Tuesday: City Council meeting.