Pueblo

A tall solar camera tower with a stylized B on its panel and cameras stacked down the mast

The Pole Camera Field Guide

Plate readers, average-speed towers, gunshot sensors, surveillance trailers and a flood station in the mountains. Twelve kinds of unattended cameras, how to tell them apart, and what each one actually watches.

A confident AI robot presents an enormous accessibility request for an electric scooter outside a historic mansion museum.

The AI Had a Plan for the Mansion

I asked AI to check whether attractions would allow my electric scooter. It sent a formal mobility-aid request to a 136-year-old mansion—and the museum had receipts.

Editorial illustration of the two AM radio towers behind Hwy 50 Autoplex in Pueblo

Two Towers Behind the Car Lot

How Pueblo’s KGHF transmitter plant became Hwy 50 Autoplex—and how a kid grew up beside an operating AM transmitter.

Editorial illustration of ordinary and surveillance-style equipment mounted on a Pueblo utility pole

The Mystery Boxes on Pueblo's Utility Poles

I photographed unexplained boxes on Pueblo utility poles, asked Black Hills Energy what they were, and later found commercial covert cameras built to look exactly like transformers and electrical equipment.