Author: Billie Stanton Anleu
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Gov. Hickenlooper solicits money for Democrats from his office
The Colorado GOP is calling for an ethics investigation into Gov. John Hickenlooper’s video soliciting partisan donations while standing in front of the state seal in his office in the Capitol. A video since deleted from his Facebook page shows Hickenlooper accepting the Democratic Senate Campaign Fund’s “glass ceiling challenge” and donating $20 to the…
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Renewed stormwater enterprise could help police
City elected officials are contemplating a return of the stormwater enterprise fund as a way to free money to support the beleaguered Colorado Springs Police Department. The fund provided about $15 million a year for badly needed stormwater-control projects by assessing fees based on how much impermeable surface was on a property owner’s land. But…
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Topic of metro districts sparks Colorado Springs City Council dissension
In a parliamentary procedure that had him voting with his opponents Tuesday, Councilman Keith King salvaged a chance to have the city council reconsider a new Colorado Springs metro district that it rejected last month. Metro districts let developers levy taxes so homebuyers help pay for infrastructure. An unlikely cadre of council members strongly opposes…
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Colorado Springs council hears proposal to allow residents to sell produce, ‘cottage foods’ out of their homes
Colorado Springs residents could sell fresh produce and “cottage foods” out of their homes under a proposal presented to the City Council on Monday. Such a move would not only promote more healthy food choices, but also would make fresh foods available to those living in “food deserts” where neither grocery stores nor farmers markets…
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Colorado Springs group to appeal EPA’s OK on Martin Drake sulfur dioxide emissions
Colorado Springs area residents have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., challenging the “unclassifiable” label given to sulfur dioxide emissions from the coal-fired Martin Drake Power Plant. The three plaintiffs are demanding that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revisit its determination this July that data were insufficient to measure…
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Garden of Gods gift tops half a million dollars
Philanthropist Lyda Hill punctuated her lifelong love affair with Garden of the Gods on Friday by giving $512,958 to America’s No. 1 city park. Record tourism this summer at the park’s Visitor & Nature Center, which Hill financed and developed 21 years ago, prompted the gift from the Garden of the Gods Foundation. The money…
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Suthers caps year that made Colorado Springs great
The city of Colorado Springs has moved “from good to great” over the past year, Mayor John Suthers said Thursday, ticking off a long list of improvements in Olympic City USA. But the news from his second annual State of the City speech surfaced in Suthers’ priorities for 2017. First, he said, is to complete…
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City engineer Tim Mitros revered for his work with victims of Colorado Springs landslides, floods
When disaster hits a Colorado Springs property, most owners suffer financial and emotional devastation. Yet many call themselves lucky. They’re the ones who work with Tim Mitros. “He should become governor. He should become mayor, then governor, then president,” said Christina Gretz, whose Stardust Mesa family home has been smacked by a landslide. “He’s fantastic.…
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Colorado Springs City Council approves amendment to Banning Lewis Ranch master plan
After much hand-wringing over potential financial fallout, two-thirds of the Colorado Springs City Council approved a major development Tuesday for the massive Banning Lewis Ranch. The 6-3 vote, with council members Helen Collins, Don Knight and Bill Murray dissenting, allowed these changes: – A major amendment to the Banning Lewis Ranch master plan, changing 153…
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Survey indicates support to oust City Council as overseer of Colorado Springs Utilities
More than half of 1,100 people polled in a telephone town hall say the City Council shouldn’t govern Colorado Springs Utilities, say survey results released Monday. The percentage of respondents against City Council governance ranged from 56 percent to 58 percent, depending on whether they were being asked the first or second time, respectively. As…