Item Type: AudioDescription: Part three of three of an oral history interview with James Phillips, director of Colorado Springs Utilities. Phillips recalls a period of heavy growth for Colorado Springs in the early 1950's wi...
Time Coverage: ca. 1941-2006
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of three of an oral history interview with James Phillips, director for Colorado Springs Utilities. In this interview, Phillips briefly discusses city politics in 1972.
Time Coverage: ca. 1941-2006
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of three of an oral history interview with James Phillips, director of Colorado Springs Utilities. In this interview, Phillips recalls his education and early employment in water projec...
Time Coverage: ca. 1941-2006
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part four of an interview with George V. Fagan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Fagan describes meeting some of the important figures of Colorado Springs while researching the location for the...
Time Coverage: ca. 1955-1985
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part three of an oral history interview with George V. Fagan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Fagan describes his establishment of the Friends of the Academy Library and the organization's rol...
Time Coverage: ca. 1955-1985
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part two of an oral history interview with George V. Fagan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Fagan describes the tearing down of the Chief Theater (Burns Theater), the Springs Area Beautiful Ass...
Time Coverage: ca. 1955-1979
Item Type: AudioDescription: Part one of an oral history interview with George V. Fagan of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Fagan tells about the many community activities and organizations he engaged with following his retir...
Time Coverage: ca. 1955-1979
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-11-12
Description: Panel 1-3. Walt Disney character, Chicken Little, is running through the Air Force Academy shouting The chaplain is praying! He wants to call the lawyers and sue the academy for evangelizing. ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-10-15
Description: Panel 1-4. Proselytizing at the Air Force Academy is a hot issue. It's understandable that there might be some confusion about the words commandant and Commandment. Panel 5-7. Colorado Springs ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-10-08
Description: Panel 1. Mikey Weinstein, wants to stop all proselytizing at the Air Force Academy. So...idea exchange can't happen? Panel 2-3. The price of coal is going up. Coal, as a Christmas gift, might...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-08-31
Description: Panel 1-4. Peace protestors at the Air Force Academy, where opposed to President George W. Bush's war in the Middle East. They didn't think the military should impose freedom on the people of I...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-09-03
Description: Panel 1. Tax activist Douglas Bruce is getting sued by the City of Colorado Springs. Taxpayers will pay through the nose whoever wins. Panel 2-5. Lara Liberal thinks tolerance and sensitivity ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-06-07
Description: Panel 1. A soldier is walking with an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. The soldier is confused. At Guantanamo, U.S. soldiers are supposed to facilitate the religious views of t...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-05-21
Description: Panel 1. Star Wars, Episode 3 opens in theaters with character, Chewbacca, present. Some hope the hairy creature might adopt controversial CU professor Ward Churchill into his tribe. Panel 2-3...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-07-03
Description: Panel 1-6. The United States Air Force Academy attracts people of all faiths...Catholic, Protestant Atheist, Muslim Buddhist, Jewish, Evangelical...but wait, now thanks to activist Mikey Weinste...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-06-04
Description: Panel 1-2. The 2005 class graduated at the Air Force Academy and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team returned to Fort Carson. Hats off to both groups. Panel 3. Two months after opening the new jail, it...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-04-30
Description: Panel 1. Police have a tough job. Do they bust up an illegal gambling operation going on in a food store where they also sell Colorado Lottery tickets? Panel 2-5. Lara Liberal finds a news it...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-05-07
Description: Panel 1. Democrats in the state legislature are in the protection racket. They are roughing up employers, tavern owners, and landlords in their zeal to save their needy constituents from harmin...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-04-16
Description: Panel 1. The Air Force Academy MESS hall got a bad report from the Surgeon General's office. It reminds me of a Laurel and Hardy routine. Panel 2. Colorado's Democratic legislature is not sure...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1998-05-30
Description: Panel 1. The Air Force Academy Falcons and other conference teams are escaping from the Super WAC prison. The topic of the graduation speech will be How things keep changing. Panel 2. Dangerous...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-10-14
Description: Panel 1. Los Angeles basketball star, Kobe Bryant, is having a hearing in Eagle County. He is charged with rape. His attorney, Pamela Mackey, pretending to have a slip of the tongue is trashin...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-11-08
Description: Panel 1. Cats eat mice, foxes eat cats and coyotes eat foxes. It's all happening now on the Patty Jewett Golf Course. Panel 2. The roof on the chapel at the Air Force Academy needs an expensiv...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-09-20
Description: Panel 1. El Paso County Commissioners, known to be against sunshine in their meetings, suspect there are citizens out their who want to see what they did with the Parks Director. Panel 2. Libe...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-09-24
Description: Dear Editor: How to solve thee assault problems at the Air Force Academy: Panel 1. Use cold water in the showers. Panel 2. Put a pin-up poster of the surgeon general in cadet quarters. Panel ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-08-02
Description: Panel 1. The Air Force Academy has a new commandant who doesn't favor doolies getting yelled by upper classmen. Of course it's still OK to make them crawl through mud baths. Panel 2-3. Touris...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1997-12-13
Description: Panel 1. Santa's helper arrives with a bag of mail from Colorado Springs. Panel 2. AdAmAn club wants something new. Santa gives them and W and a O (woman). Panel 3. The Air Force Falcon gets n...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1997-09-27
Description: Panel 1. The Secretary of Defense grounded flight training at the Air Force Academy. If you are a Colorado State Rams fan, you might wish he stopped all flights a little earlier. Panel 2. Color...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1997-06-28
Description: Panel 1. It's time for doolies to arrive (and get harassed) at the Air Force Academy. (I'm guessing) The kid from Roswell relates to a pun about aliens being allowed at the academy. Panel 2. Th...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1997-05-22
Description: 1st Lt. Kelly Flinn, an Air Force Academy graduate, the 1st female to carry nuclear bombs in a B-52, and charged with adultery, received lots of media attention. She seems to have trashed the AF...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1996-02-10
Description: Panel 1. Some teenage kids are reading that a Colorado Springs Councilman is proposing to build expensive recreation centers to keep them out of trouble. Maybe they'd be good if taxpayers will a...