The politics of landslides -- and building on landslides -- in Colorado Springs.

Until the heavy rains of May 1995, life looked pretty rosy for Ken Garrison and his wife, Ann.

The couple lived in a four-level dream home in Regency Ridge, a ritzy hillside subdivision in the Cheyenne Mountain area of Colorado Springs...

The landslide-twisted home and buckled driveway of Ken Garrison in the Regency Drive area of the Cheyenne Mountain neighborhood. Surveying the damage are David Noe of the Colorado Geologic Survey (far left) and Mark Squire (middle), who administers the $4.1 million Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that uses taxpayer money to buy out 23 landslide-damaged local homes.

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