Author: Dean Toda
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Senior deputy leaving city manager’s office
Assistant City Manager Mike Anderson, architect of numerous financial deals including the one that kept the United States Olympic Committee from leaving town, is leaving the city government after 25 years, the City of Colorado Springs announced today. In December, Anderson will become a partner in Summit Economics, a local consulting firm headed by Dave Bamberger. Anderson, 51, was interim city manager…
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Hecklers in force at Lamborn town hall meeting
Civility took a beating Monday when Rep. Doug Lamborn held another town hall meeting on the nation’s hottest political topic: health care. A vocal minority, less than 10 percent of the estimated 600 people who filled Stargazers Theatre off East Pikes Peak Avenue, heckled the Colorado Republican throughout his opening remarks detailing his opposition to…
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Stick a standard stamp on that ballot
You have your ballot. How much postage does it take to mail it in? The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s office advises that a standard 44-cent stamp will get the job done for the mail-in election that ends on Nov. 3. The only exceptions, it said, are when a voter is required to return…
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Hanover school board candidates face shrinking resources
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of profiles of the 10 contested school board races in the Pikes Peak region. Hanover School District 28 is huge and tiny. Sprawling across 273 square miles of prairie across the sparsely populated southern edge of El Paso County, its transportation costs are high, but…
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Paige faces questions of ‘fit,’ responsiveness on Council
Before Colorado Springs City Council appointed Sean Paige on Wednesday to fill its empty seat, much of the debate in the Council chamber was over whether Paige, a libertarian activist and frequent critic of the Council, could mesh with the other eight members. Vice Mayor Larry Small put a stop to such talk. “We’re not…
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Libertarian activist Paige picked for City Council
For years, Sean Paige has fired rhetorical rockets at Colorado Springs’ city government. Now he’s on the receiving end. Paige, a libertarian activist and former opinion page editor of The Gazette, was picked Wednesday to fill a vacant seat on the City Council. He will serve until the next city election in April 2011. He…
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Nine candidates seek three spots on D-22 school board
If Ellicott School District 22 were an airline, Gary Dahn would have plenty of frequent-flier miles. Ellicott has schooled his own five children, three foster kids, seven nieces and nephews raised in his home and a bunch of teenage boys living in the state-funded group home he operates. But Dahn is not happy with the…
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Flaw in 2C mailer to cost Springs $20,000 to fix
Now arriving in mailboxes across Colorado Springs: “notices of election” concerning Issue 2C, a proposed $46 million tax increase to be submitted to city voters in the Nov. 3 election. El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink said the last batch of TABOR notices, so called because they’re mandated by the Taxpayer’s Bill of…
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It’s on again: City edits Bruce’s 2C statement
Stop the presses: Douglas Bruce is mad at the city. Again. Bruce, the small-government campaigner, was invited to write a message opposing Issue 2C, a proposed $46 million tax increase for the city of Colorado Springs. The message, along with one supporting the measure, will be mailed to voters, who will decide whether to approve…
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Federal energy funding flowing Colorado’s way
Gov. Bill Ritter and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that Colorado was getting nearly $35 million in federal recovery act funding for energy efficiency and alternative energy projects. The money will go into a fund managed by the governor’s energy office to fund wind- and solar-energy projects and home weatherization programs. About $10 million of the…