Opinion: El Paso County’s chair says the board’s job is to evaluate evidence. An El Paso County resident asks why the public is being given less time — and fewer tools — to present it as the Buc-ee’s appeal approaches.
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The BOCC Hearing Story Isn’t the Vote, It’s the Community
Opinion: When the county cut their speaking time at the last minute, dozens of Tri-Lakes residents rewrote their testimony over lunch and showed what civic engagement looks like at its best.
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Why We Won’t Put up a Paywall — and What We Ask Instead
The Monument Independent is owned by people who live here, answers only to the people who read it, and gives its work away for free. If the reporting you’ve read here is worth something to you, here’s how to help keep it coming.
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For Love of Place
A Woodmoor resident’s letter to the editor: as zoning language is stretched to fit Buc-ee’s and the Highway 83 rezoning, the Tri-Lakes must fill Centennial Hall on July 23.
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Why an Independent Paper, in a Town That Left the Parties
Half of Monument’s registered voters now belong to no party. The case for an independent, issue-based local paper.