Tag: yemi mobolade
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‘How do we go forward?’: Colorado leaders emphasize unity at 9/11 ceremonies
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following another school shooting in Colorado and the assassination of a prominent conservative activist, state leaders took to the podium Thursday to emphasize the need for unity on a day that united millions 24 years ago. Hundreds gathered at separate 9/11 memorial ceremonies at Mitchell…
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Colorado Springs City Council, Mayor Mobolade at odds over marijuana tax revenues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade are at odds over the power to pick who will receive the tax revenues from recreational marijuana sales. Voters laid out the broad framework for marijuana tax revenues in 2022, requiring potentially millions to fund post-traumatic stress…
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Colorado Springs will challenge state law on accessory dwelling units
The City Planning Department is drafting an accessory dwelling units (ADUs) law that works for the city and is best for the city and pays less attention to state requirements for ADUs enacted by the legislature earlier this year. According to City Planning Director Kevin Walker, the city planners had been working hard to make…
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Lawsuits accuse Colorado Springs mayor, business partner of non-payment for goods
Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade has been named as a co-defendant in two lawsuits alleging he and a former business partner owe a food distributor nearly $100,000. Phoenix-based Shamrock Foods, a food distributor with six warehouses in Colorado, including Colorado Springs, alleges in separate lawsuits filed earlier this year that Mobolade and Russ Ware, Mobolade’s…