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: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-04-23
Description: Panel 1. Colorado Senator, Wayne Allard, is helping Pueblo in their Arms disposal project but strangely silent in helping Colorado Springs in our water project. Panel 2-3. The State legislatur...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2005-04-03
Description: Panel 1. Colorado Springs has had a spat of unusual weather lately. Sun bathers have snow to contend with. Panel 2-3. Ralph is the buffalo mascot of Colorado University. A sex scandal about d...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1998-10-10
Description: Panel 1-2. Colorado candidate for Governor, Bill Owens, has a chest protector which deflects arrows coming from Democrats, but his back is exposed to the arrows of State GOP chairman, Steve Curti...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-10-18
Description: Panel 1. A missile defense critic at the Peterson AF base said the consequences of the missile defense failure would be catastrophic. Hey, I'm just glad we have a missile defense brigade. Pane...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-08-09
Description: Panel 1. Rodeo week shows a bull rider and a story about a big crane and a little mouse. Panel 2-3. A citizen is hooked up to a concern-o-meter. Compared to West Nile virus worries, water stor...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-10-12
Description: Two men crawling in desert see City Council rescue ahead. Water? No, they turned out the lights (all except two) on Pikes Peak. It was a big issue in the city. Water is a big issue in the city.
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1983-08-08
Description: Colorado Springs needs to plan, long-range, for more water supply. The city has enough water to meet the current demands but the city is growing so fast, leaders need to plan for future developm...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2003-07-19
Description: Panel 1. City council shut off our water. The gave us a 3-day water week. Panel 2-3. The city utilities settled the sewer back-up issue with Mrs. Turlow and Mr. Henning. Now the stench is in...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1986-11-22
Description: Panel 1. I forgot what this was about. Manitou must have had a plane incident. Panel 2. The county prison is way overcrowded. Panel 3-5. El Paso County Commissioners are making a water plan...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1986-08-30
Description: Panel 1. Cycling events in the city brought with them new definitions: dog and truck chasing biker. Panel 2. Slipstream happened in Widefield. It's what happens when developers don't plan drai...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-08-31
Description: Panel 1-2. Man reading paper is tired of people threatening our way of life. He wants WAR. Not with Iraq, with Pueblo. They are holding up our water for Kayakers. Panel 3-6. Commissioner Huff...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-07-27
Description: Panel 1. Kayakers in Pueblo are plugging the water that should be flowing to Colorado Springs. Panel 2. The U.S. forest service seems to prefer to call in smoke jumpers from California to put ou...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1990-11-17
Description: Panel 1. Cascade water users get water from Colorado Springs. Their water lines are broken. Panel 2. Commissioner Campbell ropes fellow commissioner Shupp instead of the Democrat steer. He does...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1990-09-08
Description: Panel 1. Incline car crashes into 1925 council minutes. Gaylord Dismantlers nearby. [See Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article "Incline backers find hope", dated September 6, 1990, page B:1...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1980-07-26
Description: Panel 1. War games are going on at Fort Carson while many draft dodgers are sneaking away from war. Panel 2. Fort Carson tank is firing money at those who want to stop expansion. War is hell. ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1980-04-05
Description: Panel 1. A big snow hit the eastern plains. Trapped cows had to be fed by helicopters. Panel 2. EPA finds Coloradans take water rights pretty seriously. Panel 3. Prison official, Dr. Ricketts...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1980-04-09
Description: It's one of those melodramas. The evil EPA has tied up our lady (State water rights and placed her on a rail road track to be run over by federal train. Senator Gary Hart is trying to play the h...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-06-15
Description: Panel 1. City encourages neighbors to rat on each other in the water rationing program. It' a new meaning for Neighborhood watch. Panel 2-3. People see the forest fire mess in Colorado differen...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2002-06-08
Description: Panel 1. Colorful Colorado is the driest state in the nation. Panel 2. Colorado Springs farmers are siphoning water from the Pueblo River Walk. This could get ugly. Panel 3. Canon City Homelan...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1979-12-26
Description: Panel 1. The Colorado Springs Sun wants to send a gift subscription to the hostages in Iran. Sunny, the paper boy, makes a delivery. Panel 2. A new D-11 Superintendent package arrives from Des...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1979-10-13
Description: Panel 1. The Fed pulled the interest rate rug out from under the local housing market. Panel 2. Lawyers representing the union Electrical workers want individual hearings. Can they hear, He's ...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1979-01-27
Description: Panel 1. The Colorado Press Association put their foot in the door that the courts were trying to close. Free press vs. privacy issues. Panel 2. Home builders are trying to close the door on a...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1979-01-10
Description: Huston is putting his brand on Colorado Water tank-cow. [see Colorado Supreme Court case "Southeastern Colorado Water, etc. v. [John] Huston"]
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 2007-02-03
Description: Panel 1. News. D-11 schools are losing students but building two new schools. Gramps says, It must be the new math I've been hearing about. Panel 2-3. Water issues. It used to be Republican co...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1978-10-07
Description: Panel 1. The big hand of a public works veto might turn of our water project. Panel 2. Colorado Springs Mayor Ochs looks at a pretty big price tag for hosting the Olympic Sports Festival. Panel...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1978-10-20
Description: President Jimmy Carter seems to be marching to a different drum beat. The Western States are heading down the economic growth lane while Carter is marching with the Eastern States toward a cliff...
Item Type: IllustrationDate Published: 1978-09-28
Description: From my perspective, the Fryingpan-Arkansas water project looks like a very expensive plumbing operation designed to bring a little water to dry, El Paso County and then return it back across the...