Tag: mayor john suthers
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Colorado Springs more effective than Denver in handling homelessness crisis
As the homelessness crisis dominates the debate among mayoral candidates in Denver, one study points to contrasting results between Colorado’s two largest cities, showing some modicum of success on one hand and exacerbation on the other. The study’s gist contends that Colorado Springs has been more effective than metro Denver in reducing the number of…
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NEWS | Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers’ final State of the City address
Mayor John Suthers delivered his last State of the City address to a crowd of about a thousand at the Broadmoor Hotel on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Video by Breeanna Jent)
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No rain on this parade: Colorado Springs celebrates 150th birthday with floats, flyovers, festival
Despite fears that overcast skies would rain on everyone’s parade, the sesquicentennial ‘Parade Through Time’ proceeded unfettered through downtown Colorado Springs, kicking off a daylong birthday party for the city’s 150th. But even if rain had squalled the celebration, the message of the day would have remained the same. “We’re doing two things: number one,…
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Colorado Springs mulls new fire mitigation fund
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs may ask voters in November to keep $15 million in tax revenues that would otherwise be refunded to create a fundto pay for wildfire mitigation work across the city for years to come. Mayor John Suthers proposed the idea to the Colorado City…
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Colorado Springs mulls new fire mitigation fund
Colorado Springs may ask voters in November to keep $15 million in tax revenues that would otherwise be refunded to create a fundto pay for wildfire mitigation work across the city for years to come. Mayor John Suthers proposed the idea to the Colorado City Council recently to help reduce the risk of destructive fires…
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Colorado Springs will likely ask voters to double dedicated taxes funding for parks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Voters will likely be asked in November to double dedicated sales tax funding for trails, parks and open space. The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor John Suthers reached a compromise Monday to ask voters to increase the dedicated sales tax for parks from .1%…
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Colorado Springs will likely ask voters to double dedicated taxes funding for parks
Voters will likely be asked in November to double dedicated sales tax funding for trails, parks and open space. The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor John Suthers reached a compromise Monday to ask voters to increase the dedicated sales tax for parks from .1% to .2% or from about $10 million a year to…
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Colorado Springs mayor, others urge Pentagon to reverse Space Command decision
Local leaders including Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers inked a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, overturning a January Trump administration decision to uproot it and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama. Decrying the Alabama move as too costly and motivated by politics, Suthers was…
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NEWS | New home for US Space Command
Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers responds to the announcement about the future home of US Space Command. (Video provided by the City of Colorado Springs)