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Bringing joy in the form of cookies is important to Kristy and Pat Rigdon. After spending time in high- stress jobs, they wanted to open a business that would both be pleasing to them while uplifting the community.

Over the last year, federal and state law enforcement agencies have launched a campaign to increase awareness of crimes related to online sexual extortion. Many news sources across the country have reported that these types of extortion cases have increased over the last couple of years especially when they involve victims as minors.

Even people who have lived in Colorado Springs for decades often don’t know the significance of the 130-year-old building that sits on the corner of Union Boulevard and Pikes Peak Avenue. For the last several years, the property once coined “The Castle on the Hill,” has sat in a shadow with many not knowing its purpose or future.

The Maverick Observer emailed 10 Mayoral Survey questions to the candidates vying for the mayor position in Colorado Springs. We received answers from Sallie Clark, Andrew Dalby, Darryl Glenn, Longinos Gonzalez, Christopher Mitchell, Yemi Mobolade, Tom Strand, and Wayne Williams. Lawrence Martinez emailed us answers to a different survey. His answers were not included. We did not receive answers from Jim Miller, Kallan Reece Rodebaugh, and John Tig Tiegen.

When short-term rental websites like Airbnb and VRBO launched, many started off small with individuals renting out rooms or portions of their homes. Now, the short-term rental craze has reached new levels and many entrepreneurs are getting into the industry across the country offering entire homes to be rented to travelers.

Fewer students are attending public schools in Colorado. The state's combined public elementary, middle and high school enrollment has dropped by 0.5% from Oct. 2020. The fall of that year was the time of full-blast pandemic shutdowns, which included many schools. Middle school enrollment has dropped by 2.21% from 2020.

One of the main issues Ganahl focused on was the drug problem, specifically the fact that Colorado has the highest cocaine use rate out of all the other states in the country. In fact, the statistic was used in several campaign ads for Ganahl including billboards across the state and television and radio commercials.

In American entertainment, people who dwell in rural parts of the country's interior are generally caricatured as narrow-minded, incurious, hostile to outsiders and often dangerous. In entertainment, there has been a surge and reinvention of the true crime genre in the last decade.

Brent Baldwin, the owner of Veterans Wine & Liquor in Colorado Springs, knows that if people work together in the community to push local, especially craft beer and spirits, everybody wins. His approach is knowing what he likes, and understanding the supply chain but also knowing what his customers want and what the brewers and distillers can provide.

Colorado became the first state in the U.S. to legalize recreational sales of marijuana starting in 2014 and residents were shocked about how well it kicked off at first. Being one of two states (Washington legalized recreational marijuana the same year) where people could legally buy the drug without having medical reasons, the marijuana industry boomed right away.