Later changed to Thursdays, the paper is back to a Wednesday release date, can be home delivered along with the Sunday Denver Post, and still includes local news, opinions, and food, film, music, and culture articles.

[8] But come February Citizen-Powered Media, the nonprofit that owned the paper, ceased all operations and liquidated or donated all physical assets.

The two new owners created a for-profit business called Pikes Peak Media Company to produce the papers, which will be relaunched in a few months.

[10][11] Annually The Independent publishes the results of a readers poll on a variety of businesses, people and activities in the Pikes Peak region.

[12] The Independent's location on 235 S. Nevada is a historic building in downtown Colorado Springs, the old United Brethren Church built starting in 1912 and finished in 1917.

[13] In December 2007 the Starbucks coffee chain, after a single complaint from a customer suggesting The Independent was trashy or lewd, discontinued distribution of the paper in their stores.

This ban was challenged by Independent publisher John Weiss, but the chain responded that it has a non-solicitation policy, and that it only carries The New York Times and the Colorado Springs Gazette.