Letter to the editor: Marti Zehr-Breedlove writes to El Paso County commission chair Carrie Geitner about how residents who spent months preparing for the P261, P262 and Buc-ee’s hearings were addressed from the dais.
Monthly Archives: August 2026
Posted inSchools
School Spotlight: Monument Academy Middle School, Where Logic Is a Requirement
Monument Academy’s East Campus is four-fifths middle school. A look at grades six to eight: Core Knowledge, a required semester of Logic, a year of Latin or Spanish, the elective list, the Lynx in the CCAL, and how a family gets a seat.
Posted inLocal News
El Paso County Is Rewriting the Rules the Buc-ee’s Fight Turned On
Three days after the Board of County Commissioners used the current land code to clear a 74,000-square-foot travel center on Monument Hill, the county’s consultants are circulating a 516-page draft that would rebuild that code from the studs.
Posted inGovernment
Eight Hours at Centennial Hall: How Buc-ee’s Won Its Appeal
The Board of County Commissioners voted 4-1 on Thursday to allow a 74,000-square-foot travel center at Interstate 25 and County Line Road. The motion that carried never found the project to be a convenience store. It found it similar enough to other things the district allows — and that distinction governs everything that follows.
Posted inGovernment
Commissioners Grant Buc-ee’s Appeal, 4-1
El Paso County commissioners voted 4-1 to grant Buc-ee’s appeal, overturning the Planning Director’s determination on the C-1 classification.
Posted inOpinion
An Open Letter to Buc-ee’s Leadership
A group of Tri-Lakes residents has written to the chief executive of Buc-ee’s asking the company to abandon its Monument Hill site — not because the travel center is unwelcome, but because they believe it is a poor investment.
Posted inGovernment
Residents Will Ask the Commissioners to Name the Neighborhood
Twenty-five Tri-Lakes residents will put one clause of the county code to the commissioners, citing a 1991 definition that barred fuel sales.
Posted inGovernment
LaKind Will Not Seek Re-Election as Mayor of Monument
Mitch LaKind announced he will not seek re-election as Monument’s mayor in November, ending a six-year run from trustee to mayor that spanned the town’s conversion to home rule. His departure puts an open seat atop a ballot already carrying four council seats and a use-tax question.
Posted inGovernment
Thursday’s Buc-ee’s Hearing: Time, Place, and How to Take Part
El Paso County commissioners hear Buc-ee’s appeal Thursday at 9 a.m. in Centennial Hall. Doors open at 8:30. Written comments close at noon Wednesday.
Posted inSchools
The State Released 2026 Test Scores. Where D38 Finished Among Its Peers.
The state released its 2026 test results on Aug. 19. Adjusted for who each school teaches, the two schools at the extremes of D38 are not the ones the raw table names.