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NOREEN: Bad times ahead for state budget
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Charlie Brown and Phyllis Resnick have been traveling around Colorado trying to get 8-year-olds to eat their Brussels sprouts. Just kidding. What Brown and Resnick are really trying to do is raise awareness about a…
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NOREEN: Bad times ahead for state budget
Charlie Brown and Phyllis Resnick have been traveling around Colorado trying to get 8-year-olds to eat their Brussels sprouts. Just kidding. What Brown and Resnick are really trying to do is raise awareness about a state budget crisis that will occur in the next several years. Brown and Resnick, of the University of Denver-based Center…
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NOREEN: Carving up community property at Focus
Talk about your divorces. James Dobson, who gave birth to Focus on the Family and nurtured his own special baby for more than 30 years, has made it official that beginning in March, he will compete directly for listeners and cash donations with the ministry he created. Instead of being called “Focus on the Family,”…
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NOREEN: The shocking truth about Tasers in the Springs
Excuse the pun, but this may come as a shock: Tasers are good because they save lives and money. Tasers were in the news this week when El Paso County agreed to pay a settlement to a Calhan man who was tased. How many lives or how much money is saved? That’s open to some…
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NOREEN: CU-CSU rivalry becomes local
You may have seen the television commercials recently, touting classes offered by Colorado State University-Pueblo — in Colorado Springs. Most of the classes are of the continuing education variety, but the little-college-that-could from the south also is offering a masters in business administration degree in direct competition with the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. CSU-Pueblo has…
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NOREEN: Nothing scandalous about Utilities paying the city
Now here is another unspeakable scandal: Colorado Springs Utilities pays an annual franchise fee of about $125,000 to Manitou Springs. If you’ve been listening to Doug Bruce and others recently, you’ve been led to believe that Utilities’ payments in lieu of taxes, or PILT, and other fees paid to the city’s general fund are part…
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NOREEN: Dirty secret? There isn’t one
Now here is another unspeakable scandal: Colorado Springs Utilities pays an annual franchise fee of about $125,000 to Manitou Springs. If you’ve been listening to Doug Bruce and others recently, you’ve been led to believe that Springs Utilities’ payments in lieu of taxes and other fees paid to the city’s general fund are part of…
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NOREEN: Skateboard park graffiti defeated again
The sprayed-on hate was delivered courtesy of someone claiming to be a Vato Loco (crazy gangster). That’s the moniker of a gang that began in Los Angeles but has it roots where all street gangs are spawned, in feelings of hopelessness, alienation and completely wrong-headed notions of what it means to be macho. You might…
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NOREEN: Reaching into Santa’s bag
Ho, ho, ho. As Santa reaches into his gift sack, let’s hope he puts plenty of thought into it this year. How about a job for everyone who lost one? It’s hard to think of a better way for so many to begin the new year than to be working again, providing for their families,…
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NOREEN: Pot smoke clears from Commission chamber
After nine years of smoke-filled rooms, a ray of light appeared Thursday, when the El Paso County Commission unanimously approved temporary zoning regulations for medicinal marijuana dispensaries. That might not sound like a big deal, but going into the meeting, the five-member panel was considering a moratorium on an activity that was placed into the…