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Loving the Springs

Loving the Springs

De: Dave Gardner Al Brody and Carrie Simison
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Celebrating the best of Colorado Springs and elevating the rest. Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast@gmail.comCopyright 2026 Dave Gardner, Al Brody and Carrie Simison Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • 43: April 7 2026 – State of Downtown Colorado Springs

    43: April 7 2026 – State of Downtown Colorado Springs
    Apr 7 2026

    Downtown population doubled, retail sales broke a half-billion dollars, and more than 800 arts/culture/sports events took place downtown in 2025. These are just a few highlights of the highlights Downtown Partnership CEO Chelsea Gondeck shares from the State of Downtown Colorado Springs 2026 Report.

    Note: we discussed the “rumored” sale of Poor Richard’s in this episode, apparently just minutes before the sale was announced.

    LINKS:

    2026 State of Downtown Report: https://downtowncs.com/sod

    Front Range Passenger Rail Community Q&A: Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs:

    https://www.mobilize.us/ridethefrontrange/event/927199/?followup_modal_context=email_shift_followup_other_events

    April 17, 5:30 to 7 pm at Kinship Landing

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    MENTIONED:

    Condo defect legislation

    OneVeLa 27-story high-rise apartment project

    Cottonwood Center for the Arts

    Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

    Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Fan Fest

    Parade of Lights

    Pride Fest

    Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off

    CSPD

    Elevate Downtown Plan

    Revel: The Urban Arts Party

    AdAmAn Alley

    Mom’s Day Out

    Acacia Park

    Dizzy Charlie’s Music & Events

    Downtown Rotary Club

    Front Rail Passenger Rail District

    Kinship Landing

    Windsor

    Loveland

    Castle Rock

    Peregrine

    Briargate

    Ski Broadmoor

    Sharktooth Ski Area

    U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum

    Switchbacks FC

    Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

    Poor Richard’s

    Richard Skorman

    Kimball’s Peak Three

    Chuck Murphy

    Thunderball

    Bingo Burger

    Borriello Brothers Pizza

    Eric Brenner

    Red Gravy

    Perry Bolts

    Eclectic CO

    Yobel

    Emily and Clay Ross

    Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

    Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

    Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com
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  • 42: March 23 2026 - WasteLessCOS

    42: March 23 2026 - WasteLessCOS
    Mar 23 2026
    Learn how the City of Colorado Springs has been studying our garbage and laying out a plan to divert a lot of that trash away from the landfill and into recycling and composting. Kurian, the City’s project manager for its new Waste Diversion Action Plan shares study and survey results, and explains next steps in the project.We also get a festival preview from Music Director Steve Harris about the upcoming MeadowGrass Music Festival, which happens every Memorial Day weekend in Black Forest.Name the train: the Front Range Passenger Rail District invited the public to vote for their favorite of four finalists to name the passenger rail line planned to run up and down Colorado’s front range. That survey closes the day this episode drops, March 23. We briefly discuss the project. Look for one more public meeting in Colorado Springs very soon.Independent reporter Pam Zubeck shares background and highlights of her reporting in the Pikes Peak Bulletin on Colorado Springs Utilities.Also on the table – ways we can trim our gas bills now that a gallon of gas is fetching close to $4.00.LINKS:WastelessCOS: https://coloradosprings.gov/WastelessCOSSustainability In-Box: COS-Sustainability.SMB@ColoradoSprings.govCircular Action Alliance: https://circularactionalliance.org/circular-action-alliance-coloradoProducer Responsibility program: https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/epr-programWaste and Recycling in Colorado – Episode 96 of Peak Environment: https://studio809podcasts.com/waste-and-recycling/The Garbologists: https://www.lindsayjoelle.com/the-garbologists.htmlName the Train: https://ridethefrontrange.com/namethetrainMeadowGrass Music Festival: https://meadowgrass.org/ Pikes Peak Bulletin utilities reports:Data Centers Come Knocking. Are Local Power and Water Supplies Available?: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/data-centers-come-knocking-are-local-power-and-water-supplies-available/Springs Utilities Out $5.35 Million in Settlement With Fiber Project Contractor: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/springs-utilities-out-5-35-million-in-settlement-with-fiber-project-contractor/Utilities CEO Says ‘Gloves Will Come Off’ if Senate Bill Doesn’t Delay Closing Nixon Coal Plant: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/utilities-ceo-says-gloves-will-come-off-if-senate-bill-doesnt-delay-closing-nixon-coal-plant/CSU’s Non-Compliant Gas Lines To Cost Consumers: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/csus-non-compliant-gas-lines-to-cost-consumers/ Utilities Reporting Elsewhere:Exhaust Concerns Threaten $650M Utilities Power Project – by Wayne Heilman: https://socodigest.com/2026/03/04/breaking-exhaust-concerns-threaten-650m-utilities-power-project/ Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort 10 Year Anniversary Special – episode 38 of Pedal the Springs: https://studio809podcasts.com/buffalo-lodge-10-year-anniversary/Colorado Springs State of Downtown Report: https://downtowncs.com/sod MENTIONED:PikeRideTejon Street Corner ThievesVulturesThrashersAntivirusTrepannedLa Foret Conference & Retreat CenterGoat Patch Brewing CompanyALOJack JohnsonString Cheese IncidentKyle Hollingsworth BandNershi Hann TrioShook TwinsDaniel RodriguezElephant RevivalSturtzBanshee TreeFolk Alliance InternationalGrant SabinBroken CompassEmily HicksGoodnight MoonshineRocky Mountain Highway Music CollaborativeRoot Center for Yoga and Sacred StudiesDistillery 291Southern Colorado Business Forum & DigestLoving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com
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    1 h y 4 m
  • 41: March 11 2026 - Jessica Killin Wants to Represent You in Congress

    41: March 11 2026 - Jessica Killin Wants to Represent You in Congress
    Mar 11 2026
    The odds have never been better that a Democrat will represent Colorado’s 5th District in U.S. Congress next year. Meet the woman who may just send Jeff Crank packing, Jessica Killin. Jessica is one of a field of 5 vying for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Colorado Springs and environs. Get to know Jessica as we ask her about her history in Colorado Springs, her military experience, her experience at our nation’s capitol, and what she thinks Congress can do during the last two years of the Trump administration. Also vying for the CD5 nomination are Joe Reagan, Zuri Horowitz, and Justin Lord.We also get an update from Pikes Peak Bulletin’s Heila Ershadi on the archives of the defunct Colorado Springs Independent. Dirk Hobbs of Colorado Media Group has possession of the data, but is finding it very challenging to restore online access to this treasure trove of over twenty years of community history. Heila also updates the saga of the Moreno and Cascade Urban Renewal Plan, recently approved despite efforts of the Mill Street Community Benefits All Coalition to hold out for a community benefit plan with Norwood Development Group.Other Studio 809 podcasts featuring CD5 congressional candidates:Two Women, One Primary, Big Ideas – Jessica Killin and Zuri Horowitz on episode 65 of Elevating Pikes Peak Women: https://studio809podcasts.com/two-women-one-primary/Running for Congress with Joe Reagan - episode 24 of Badly Needed & Long Overdue: https://studio809podcasts.com/24-joe-reagan-for-congress/People Centered Springs with Zuri Horowitz – episode 36 of Loving the Springs: https://studio809podcasts.com/people-centered-zuri/ LINKS:Jessica Killin campaign: https://www.killinforcolorado.com/Indy archives (very limited, 2023 so far): https://socoinsider.com/archives/‘A Complete Mess’: Indy Archive Restoration Proves Difficult: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/a-complete-mess-indy-archive-restoration-proves-difficult/Over Objections from Neighborhood Group, City Council Approves Public Money for Hotel Project: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/news/over-objections-from-neighborhood-group-city-council-approves-public-money-for-hotel-project/Pikes Peak Bulletin: https://pikespeakbulletin.org/ MENTIONED:Colorado Congressional District 5El Paso County Democratic PartyJeff CrankUNCLahara, ColoradoCarver ElementarySabin Junior HighPikes Peak ElementaryFalcon Middle SchoolStetson HillsHorizon Middle SchoolFalcon High SchoolUnited States Air Force AcademyFort CarsonPeterson FieldCU BoulderArmy ROTCUniversity of TampaSMUOperation Joint Endeavor / Operation Joint GuardNATOPolandUkraine Xi JinpingColorado Springs AirportCostcoPikes PeakPikes Peak Housing NetworkColorado Springs Chamber & EDCDirk HobbsColorado Media GroupSoCo InsiderFBITrump Epstein FilesColorado Springs Pioneers MuseumPikes Peak Library DistrictThe Poynter InstituteKnight FoundationPam ZubeckCorey HutchinsInside the News in ColoradoColorado CollegeThe Washington PostThe New York TimesColorado Springs GazetteMoreno and Cascade Urban Renewal PlanNorwood Development GroupMill Street Community Benefits All CoalitionNancy HenjumKimberly GoldDave DonelsonMax KronstadtUnion Printers HomeLoving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com
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