El Paso County

According to one source, she had not seen nor heard from Tim Watkins in about 24 hours and was starting to get worried.

Tim was an avid outdoorsman, known to spend some of his nights out in the wilds of El Paso County.

Known to spend some of his nights out in the wilds of El Paso County, he had been doing so quite a bit more lately due to some personal issues happening in his life.

Sleeping in his car at the trailhead to get away from it all.

According to Ginger and the source, the 60-year-old bike mechanic had been struggling as of late.

sat in a way that looked as if he carefully laid it down so he could go on a hike or take a short break.

Located less than 50 feet away from Forest Service Trail 715, also known as Limbaugh Canyon, but completely hidden from view, the bike's front tire was flat and the gear setting suggested that at the time he was going downhill.

After these discoveries, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office launched an official search of their own, with both officers and dogs scouring the area.

And so you have a lot of ranchers.

He told me about this one woman out in El Paso County.

She was going to go sell some of her steers in July.

And that, you know, in part because she has to pay for the skyrocketing costs of hay because ranches are having to take their cattle off of their summer pastures and allotments early and are really getting worried about how long they're going to be able to feed them before they have to start feeding hay, which they usually start later in the year, like around December.

And in a place like Lincoln County with only a few thousand residents, A dozen or a couple of dozen jobs makes an economic difference.

So their point was that economic impact of renewable energy in the eastern plains counties is six point three billion dollars in those counties that include El Paso.

They include well, they include far distant counties like Yuma County and Lincoln County, where all the wind turbines are.

And they just want to let people know that that is an increasing influence on eastern plains counties and can be competitive with fossil fuel jobs as a way to change the economics out there.

Uh, they are a Black and veteran-owned fam- farming family.

They are a Black and veteran-owned farming family in El Paso County, in El Paso County, Colorado, near Yonder and Colorado Springs, that are under constant threats of their life, constant threats of their safety, constant threats of people trying to hostily take over their land.

They have 1,000 acres out there, um, and you know, all they doing is trying to provide food to people.

So, if you go to freedomacresranch.com, you could buy, uh, farm fresh pork, um, you could buy farm fresh chicken and turkey, you can buy prime beef, um, lamb.

So we're handing over the feed to CPR's politics podcast, Purplish.

In the latest show, host Benta Berklin catches us up on the fight over a major and majorly controversial development in El Paso County.

What could draw a few hundred people to a county commission meeting on a Thursday? I have one word for you.

Buc-ee's.

Do not let them go through the back door.

Please.

We are back on Purplish to talk all things Buc-ee's because of a big new development on Buc-ee's proposal for a second location in Colorado in El Paso County along I-25.

To help break it all down for us, we've brought in KRCC's Andrea Chelfin to join us on Purplish.

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republican democrat i mean douglas county very red El Paso County, very red.

And this has gone across the entire state as if this is the most popular or populist movement, but it's not.

The vast majority of the people, including parents, yanked their kids out of school, have said, absolutely not.