Tag: the view from here
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NOREEN: An attorney can’t represent opposing parties
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The person who can hire or fire you is the one for whom you work. It’s true for burger flippers as well as city attorneys. In 2010 in Colorado Springs, a strong majority voted for…
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NOREEN: An attorney can’t represent opposing parties
The person who can hire or fire you is the one for whom you work. It’s true for burger flippers as well as city attorneys. In 2010 in Colorado Springs, a strong majority voted for a strong-mayor form of government while retaining a nine-member City Council. That means most voters wanted the mayor to have…
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NOREEN: It’s Chinatown, Mr. Mayor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the great film “Chinatown,” Jack Nicholson’s character, Jake Gittes, is a private investigator who becomes hopelessly entangled in a large drama playing out over the Los Angeles landscape in 1937, when L.A. water interests…
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NOREEN: It’s Chinatown, Mr. Mayor
In the great film “Chinatown,” Jack Nicholson’s character, Jake Gittes, is a private investigator who becomes hopelessly entangled in a large drama playing out over the Los Angeles landscape in 1937, when L.A. water interests ruthlessly gobbled up water from California’s Owens River Valley. The grand tapestry and the dark powers behind it prove to…
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NOREEN: Our gift from council? A lump of coal.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Anyone in the newspaper business can relate to what has happened to the U.S. coal industry.The two industries have struggled with tough competition. Newspapers are trying hard to adapt to changes brought on by the…
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NOREEN: Our gift from council? A lump of coal.
Anyone in the newspaper business can relate to what has happened to the U.S. coal industry.The two industries have struggled with tough competition. Newspapers are trying hard to adapt to changes brought on by the Internet and social media.Coal, which once ruled the energy industry, is losing its grip, mostly because of natural gas, which…
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NOREEN: It’s a tragedy. Policy debate can wait
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Before we had the names of the victims, before we knew how many might not survive Friday’s horrendous shooting spree in Aurora, before we knew much of anything about the man in custody, many joined…
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NOREEN: It’s a tragedy. Policy debate can wait
Before we had the names of the victims, before we knew how many might not survive Friday’s horrendous shooting spree in Aurora, before we knew much of anything about the man in custody, many joined a feverish mad dash to make political or public-policy hay out of the tragedy. Bill Sulzman of the Pikes Peak…
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NOREEN: Sex offender registry growing fast
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are 1,168 names on the sex offender registry who list Colorado Springs as their home and as that population grows, so does the challenge of tracking it. Those on the registry must re-register quarterly…
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NOREEN: Sex offender registry growing fast
There are 1,168 names on the sex offender registry who list Colorado Springs as their home and as that population grows, so does the challenge of tracking it. Those on the registry must re-register quarterly or annually, depending on the type of crime they were convicted of, some are homeless and at times, some don’t…