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Colorado Springs Testing Radiation Monitors (AP) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Monitors designed to detect and help track down radiation sources such as "dirty bombs" will be installed on traffic-light poles in an early test of a homeland security system. The devices, made by Mobile Detect Inc. of Toronto, will transmit radiation levels to the city's traffic control center. High radiation levels will trigger cameras to start filming in an attempt to find clues to the source. "I think this could change the way we do homeland security," said John Merrick, the city's lead traffic engineer. The city is paying for the...

JimRob's Big Adventure (April Roadtrip) Greetings FReepers, I'll be traveling with Jim and Shiela Robinson. We'll be attending a Heritage Foundation seminar/workshop in Colorado Springs, CO. Jim will be representing FreeRepublic.com and I will be there representing VetsCoR. Our itinerary will be: Depart from Date time miles Arrive at Date Time Approximate Driving time Fresno, CA* 4/13/06 ??? 171 mi Mojave, CA 4/13/06 ??? 4 hours Mojave, CA* 4/14/06 ??? 172 mi. Death Valley,CA 4/14/06 ??? 4 hours Death Valley, CA* 4/16/06 ??? 171 mi. Mojave, CA 4/16/06 ??? 4 hours Mojave, CA* 4/16/06 1330 256 mi. LHC, AZ 4/16/06...

With less than a week left to suggest names for two new elementary schools in Colorado Springs School District 11, a national group is making a pitch for residents to name one of the schools for the late President Reagan. The goal of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project is to have schools and other facilities named after the 40th president, whom it credits with ending the Cold War and turning the economy around in the 1980s, said Grover Norquist, chairman of the project and president of Americans for Tax Reform. John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., each have...

We owe a great debt to Air Force Academy head football coach Fisher DeBerry. To be sure, the initial knee-jerk reaction to his recent comments about black football players being generally faster than white ones caused him to be treated like a "politically incorrect" piñata (my God, I hope I haven't offended Latinos). Upon reflection, however, his statements were so obviously true that something of an anti-PC backlash has materialized in his defense. To their credit, Sam Adams and Thierry Smith, two African-American Denver sportswriters, both agreed on their KKFN radio talk show that DeBerry's remarks weren't racist and that...

Excerpt - President Bush will visit Northern Command in Colorado Springs this week to monitor Hurricane Rita as it bears down on the Texas coastline. It will be Bush’s first look at Northern Command since it was created in October 2002 in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. White House spokesman Allen Abney said Bush will land sometime after 6 p.m. tomorrow and depart Saturday. “The purpose is to come and monitor the storm and get a firsthand look at the military response effort and where those (assets) are being directed,” Abney said. White House spokesman Scott McClellan...

This just in: Colorado Springs is a conservative city. Exactly how right-leaning the town is may come as a surprise, though. The Springs ranked as the sixth-most conservative city in America out of 237 with at least 100,000 residents, according to a survey released Thursday by a voting-research think tank. More on this topic America's most conservative cities America's most liberal cities It was the largest city in the top 12, outdistancing the next biggest city on the list by more than 100,000 people. Colorado Springs’ placement on the list was enough to destroy a main theory of the Bay...

Research numbers in middle of article are interesting. Could have profound impact on society. Church is the big building with the steeple on it. Church is the house two doors down. Church is the strip-mall coffee shop. Church is the deeply wooded hiking trail. Church, for better or worse, is changing. Some Christians are forsaking familiar churches and cobbling together their own mix-and-match path to God. They worship on mountaintops and laptops, in business suits and tank tops. Most often, they worship in small, tightly knit groups and can be found across Colorado Springs any day of the week.

Here’s a story that will throw you for a loop: a "chaplain” at the U.S. Air Force Academy is complaining that the school’s administration has a "systemic and pervasive” problem of promoting religious religious values with a Christian bent. The chaplain, Capt. Melinda Morton, a "Lutheran minister” spoke out publicly on Tuesday as an Air Force task force arrived at the academy to investigate charges that officers and staff members pushed their religious beliefs on cadets. And she claimed that a tolerance program developed at the academy, called Respecting the Spiritual Values of all People (R.S.V.P.), was watered down after...

Protest In Colorado Springs A local activist group, Students for Social Justice, from UCCS is planning a "counter military recruitment" demonstration at the Citadel Recruiting Station (U.S. Army Recruiting Station, 1055 N. Academy Blvd) on Saturday, 30 Apr 05 at 1200. The demonstration is expected to be peaceful and no specific targeting of military personnel is anticipated. All military members are being encouraged to avoid the demonstration to avoid becoming a target of opportunity for the protestors. If you drive a vehicle with a military base decal, be advised of this event.

Colorado Springs, Colo.—The Canadian flag is still fluttering outside NORAD headquarters here, and deep within its granite fortress, Col. Doug McLennan — a Canadian — had the big job yesterday of overseeing the air defence of North America. A week after Paul Martin bowed out of missile defence, it's business as usual at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, according to NORAD's top commander. "The Prime Minister's decision does not change the mission we do here," says Admiral Timothy Keating, an American. The view is backed up by Lt.-Gen. Rick Findley, NORAD's deputy commander, a job traditionally held by a...

COLORADO SPRINGS – A new compensation package for priests will begin in July 2005. The restructured system will ensure that each priest receives the same salary and that parishes are assigned priests based on pastoral need, not their ability to pay for them, said Bob Doerfler, diocesan finance officer. Each diocesan priest will receive $50,000 annually. That amount includes both the priest’s salary and his housing allowance. A priest may choose to purchase his own home, or rent the parish rectory to which he is assigned, Doerfler said. “One of the goals of the priest compensation program is to not...

<p>DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest caused a stir on the House floor Tuesday when he urged lawmakers to let religious faith guide their votes and "be the antithesis of John Kennedy."</p> <p>While delivering the chamber's morning prayer, the Rev. Bill Carmody said too many politicians have followed the example of the nation's first Catholic president by pledging to separate their faith from politics.</p>

TESTING THE FAITHPriest busted for Communion wineWants variance of city law so he can say Mass outside abortion clinic A Catholic priest has run afoul of the law in Colorado Springs, Colo., after being caught with an open container of sacramental wine while performing Mass outside an abortion clinic. The Rev. Bill Carmody was warned by a police officer after the cop asked him what he was holding. "The police officer asked me what's in the flask," he told the Colorado Springs Gazette. "I really didn't know what to do." Carmody has asked the Colorado Springs City Council for a...

The Cadet Wing at the United States Air Force Academy is under lockdown in their dorm rooms at this time. My daughter stated that they have posted Protection Forces at the Dormitory entrances (MP's with M-16's and full battle gear). The cadet's have been instructed not to use the stairways (which are glass surrounded). Rumors are running rampant including a Al- Queda possible bomb threat against the Academy chapel to a possible lone gunman.... As information flows in I will update.... Any Academy Grads with contacts please update and post...

If you think you know America, you’ll think again when you read this remarkable dispatch by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge from the heartland of the US — where it’s cool to be conservativeSitting on a sofa with their plastic cups of coffee, Dustin and Maura look like a couple of twentysomethings in a creative writing course: a sprawl of slightly scruffy sweatshirts, jeans and sneakers, Dustin in a baseball cap, Maura with her blonde hair tied behind her head with a Native American band. They both recently graduated from liberal-arts colleges on the East Coast, and they have travelled...

Aug 12, 3:55 PM (ET) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - John Sayles plans to screen his new movie - a political satire that takes aim at President Bush - in cities in Colorado next month. Sayles filmed "Silver City," about a man running for governor of Colorado and a disgraced investigative reporter, in Denver and Leadville last year. The movie will be shown Sept. 9 at the Kimball's Twin Peak Theater in Colorado Springs. Screenings also are scheduled for Denver, as well as Santa Fe, N.M., to benefit local and national nonprofit groups. "That will be incredible," said Kimball Bayles,...

Bishop Sheridan responds to his critics without backing down: Pro-abortion politicians are no worse than the pro-abortion voters who elect them to office 6/8/2004 9:23:00 PM By Bishop Michael Sheridan, Diocese of Colorado Springs - www.diocesesc.org Bishop Michael Sheridan The reactions to my recent pastoral letter on the duties of Catholic politicians and voters were overwhelming in many more ways than one. I was edified by the many messages of support for what I wrote. I was distressed by those who misread and misrepresented what I wrote. I was deeply saddened by those who said that they understood very...

Tens of thousands of people filled downtown sidewalks Saturday morning, bellowing “thank you,” waving American flags and cheering for troops marching in Colorado Springs’ Welcome Home Parade. Residents turned out en masse to celebrate its servicemen and women. Organizers estimated 80,000 people lined the streets for the two-hour parade through the heart of downtown. Spectators wore red-white-and-blue hats, ribbons, shirts and pants. They carried signs for the troops, cried and cheered wildly as each squadron marched by. The parade under brilliant blue skies featured 6,500 troops, mostly Fort Carson soldiers who fought in Iraq and returned this year. They undoubtedly...

WASHINGTON, June 3 — Akshay Buddiga stood on stage hunched over a microphone, his clenched hands stuffed into his pockets. If he could spell "alopecoid," he would take another step on the way to becoming the second national spelling bee champion in his family. He asked for the meaning of the word, then its origin. Buying a bit more time, he asked for its pronunciation. Then before he could get the "a" out, he fainted, collapsing at the feet of the other spellers. No sooner had the audience let out a collective gasp than they let out a louder one...

The tens of thousands of people expected to welcome home Iraq war veterans at Saturday’s ticker-tape parade downtown should arrive early with their patriotism on display, organizers say.