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THE SPYGLASS: County flush with funds after septic rate increase
Comments | RecommendA friend from Oklahoma who wouldn't trust government with a nickel used to say a slick way to fund Big Brother would be with a toilet paper tax. How better to fund the government's diarrhea of the checkbook than by making every...
THE SPYGLASS: General’s Iraq speech heard by a select few
Comments | RecommendEverybody's who's anybody was at the Penrose House last Wednesday. About 90 people gathered to get the latest dope on the Iraq war from someone in the know. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno spoke to a who's-who crowd in the lush setting of a goldrush-era millionaire's...
THE SPYGLASS: Cities save money by tracking vehicles
Comments | RecommendWhen Mom watches you rake the yard, you're less apt to ditch the job to take a dip in the neighbor's pool. That's the principle behind a Deer Park, N.Y., company's product that it says saves cities and companies money. ...
City’s ethics commission is twiddling its thumbs
Comments | RecommendIn April 2007, Colorado Springs faced having to comply with the state's voterapproved ethics law advanced by Common Cause. The City Council believed it was too restrictive - according to the city attorney, it could even bar a...
Budget ‘crisis’ nothing new for the county
Comments | RecommendEl Paso County is in such dire financial straits that "the public no longer can get the same level of service from county government." County officials have repeated that so much of late it's starting to sound like background noise. ...
Suthers’ 5th book presents his case on role of DA
Comments | RecommendThe Gazette's Statehouse reporter, Ed Sealover, reports the state's attorney general/author is at it again. John Suthers has released a 192-page examination of the criminal justice system called, "No Higher...
If you want to be on top someday, you have to work
Comments | RecommendNew City Manager Penelope Culbreth-Graft wants to help midmanagers work their way to the top, the operative word being "work." She picked seven up-and-comers for the first incarnation of "Team Squared." The...
Silence over France trip feels a lot like déjá vu
Comments | RecommendIn December, Mayor Lionel Rivera and his wife, Lynn, went to Paris on official city business. Most of the trip was funded by his hosts across the pond, with the city picking up incidentals such as an occasional cab fare. But when it was time recently...
Bruce says help with enterprise petitions dried up when he left
Comments | RecommendTime is running out for tax-cutter Douglas Bruce to collect signatures for two ballot measures that would overhaul the city's enterprise funds. Seems that while Rep. Bruce was in Denver, his helpers were asleep at the switch....
Transportation authority looks like it’s doing well
Comments | RecommendPrices are skyrocketing, and more people are being laid off by the day. Times are tough all over. Or are they? The Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority is doing pretty well. The agency's 1 percent sales tax, approved by voters in 2004, raised $301,725...
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