Founder of Colorado Springs opera company to retire during 25th anniversary season

PLUS | FRIDAY FACEOFF: Which game on the Nuggets' 2023-24 schedule excites you the most?; EDITORIAL: Low expectations hobble K-12 in Colorado and more. [View in browser]( [Share with a friend]( Springs PM Update Good evening. Today is Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Catch up on everything going on in Colorado in 5 minutes. [Founder of Colorado Springs opera company to retire during 25th anniversary season]( The Louisiana native and classical singer had run off to the bright lights, big city after college, excited to make a name for herself. But what she found was a chorus of crickets. So when her husband got a job offer in the Springs, she figured why not? New York was playing nothing but the blues. [Read More]( [FRIDAY FACEOFF: Which game on the Nuggets' 2023-24 schedule excites you the most?]( Paul Klee and Kyle Fredrickson discuss their opinions on the games that they are most looking forward to in this new Nuggets season. [Read More]( [EDITORIAL: Low expectations hobble K-12 in Colorado]( The best that Colorado’s education establishment can say about the lackluster student-achievement scores released Thursday is that, overall, the state’s K-12 public schoolers are within reach of pre-pandemic scores. [Read More]( [MLB Insider: Rockies quartet bonding through life of faith]( Elliott Blair deserves some credit for a group of Rockies finding common ground. [Read More]( [COLUMN: Colorado judges break the law — and are above it | George Brauchler]( More than 50 Colorado judges have broken the law with seeming impunity. Only The Gazette’s reporting has called it out for the scandal it is. [Read More]( [A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of killing 7 babies]( A neonatal nurse in a British hospital was found guilty Friday of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception that saw her prey on the vulnerabilities of sick newborns and their anxious parents. [Read More]( [Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico's Baja as rare tropical storm watch issued for California]( Hurricane Hilary churned off Mexico's Pacific coast Friday as a powerful Category 4 storm threatening to unleash torrential rains on the mudslide-prone border city of Tijuana before heading into Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years. [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up [here.]( Engage in the conversation in [today's eEdition]( Interested in podcasts? Check out ours [here]( Already subscribed? [Log in.]( Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [here.]( 30 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903