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Woodland Park’s Merit Academy held its second lecture in a series on Nov. 5. The series put on by the charter school is a move to share what is taught in the school’s classes with parents and the community at large.

The future of Social Security benefits has been discussed extensively by experts for the last two decades. At around the change of the millennium, economists started seeing an issue with the way social security benefits are paid for by the workforce and received by retirees.

Michael Brothers, owner, and operator of Woodmoor Nordic Center in Monument knows a thing or two about stamina. Brothers taught at the Air Force Academy, researched human physiology, and competed professionally as a military competitive skier on a path to the Olympics.

The Colorado State Legislature in 2021 passed Senate Bill 260, a nearly $5.4 transportation bill that tackles several large items at the same time including fixing and expanding highways, and boosting various transit projects.

For the last few years, a hot real estate market changed the landscape for those buying, selling or building new homes. The coronavirus pandemic changed mindsets and forced people to rethink their living situations.

Baking is a taste of home. Kira Isbell, the owner of Blue Sunflour Bakeshop in Colorado Springs, thinks back to the baking her mom used to do on the farm they grew up on in Kansas. The taste of breads and her ever-popular scones connect her to those memories as well as her current community in Colorado Springs through everything from her pumpkin scones to her rosemary focaccia bread.

Anyone who has read a newspaper or watched the news knows that the country and the globe are seeing high levels of inflation. In fact, the statistics show that the U.S. has seen record-high levels of inflation over the last several months.

Last spring, bills hit the Colorado and U.S. legislatures to get rid of the biannual tradition of changing the clocks. In fact, the debate turned from whether or not we should get rid of the time-changing tradition to if we should stay in standard time (the time during winter) or stay in daylight saving time (the time during the summer).

Colorado voters wanted a voice in how their state revenues were being utilized, especially when it came to potential tax increases. In 1992, those voices were heard when The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) Amendment was approved by Colorado voters.

Forming a coalition from different areas of the same industry like outdoor recreation is easier said than done. Everyone from climbers to fishermen to hunters has their own needs. Add in the different business approaches of guides, retailers, and nonprofits and it can create an interesting conundrum of seeing eye-to-eye.