Commentary: Best of the Worst: The Springs' Not-so-Magnificent Seven

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Last week, we featured a feel-good look at the nine best things ever to happen to our sometimes benighted community. This week: a sourly opinionated account of the seven worst events in our city's checkered history.

Is the field of Armageddon located right here in Colorado Springs? Have we, like Job, been sorely tested by fate or by the Almighty? Are we the victims of remorseless fate, or the foolish architects of own disasters? Are we the greatest city in the nation, or the world's largest open-air lunatic asylum?

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Commentary: Best of the Worst: The Springs' Not-so-Magnificent Seven

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1. The Dougster comes to town. I met Douglas Bruce a few weeks after he arrived in Colorado Springs back in the mid-1980s. He told me that he'd come here from California to invest in real estate and to find a "traditional" sp...

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