Tag: the view from here
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NOREEN: Dollar stores booming
We reached the point at which the definition of good economic news is that the year-over-year monthly sales tax collection statistics show the decline is not as steep as it was a year ago. It now counts as banner headline good news (Dec. 5) that the national unemployment rate declined in November — to 10…
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NOREEN: Could thirsty Donala help pay for Springs water?
Back in the day, there was a popular bumper sticker on Colorado’s West Slope. It depicted a urinating cowboy, and the resulting stream spelled out “Divert this, Denver.” Now there are 4 million people in the state and the amount of water that falls to Earth every year hasn’t changed. The quest for water has…
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NOREEN: Passing a law won’t solve homelessness
On a frozen Monday, as homeless people in Colorado Springs endured hell, the City Council cast a no camping ordinance into purgatory. Advocates of a law making it illegal to camp in public rights-of-way can still work on it until it comes back to the council in February. But several council members made it clear…
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NOREEN: Rest in peace, Prohibition
Raise your glass: Dec. 5 was the 76th anniversary of the death of the 18th Amendment — also known as the Volstead Act, or in the parlance of historians, Prohibition. Even if alcohol never passes your lips and you’ve never admired how beads of sweat form on the outside of a bottle of beer on…
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NOREEN: Homeless hang in there, like the rest of us
Ray Medina died last week near the banks of Fountain Creek, but hundreds of his homeless brothers and sisters are alive, if not entirely well. Whether we want to own up to it or not, they are our brothers and sisters, too. Most of them really don’t have last names any more, having lost half…
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NOREEN: Stop the general before he steals again
Patterning one’s work after someone else’s is one thing and plagiarism is another. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize is • To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own • To use (another’s production) without crediting the source • To commit literary theft • To present as…
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NOREEN: To enjoy this you have to be sick
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tuesday’s Colorado Springs City Council meeting could be likened to a double feature, “The Three Faces of Eve” and “Psycho.” Only Alfred Hitchcock, a meth-crazed sadist or someone suffering from narcissistic personality disorder could have…
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NOREEN: Won’t you be my neighbor?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Colorado Springs Utilities completes the $1.4 billion Southern Delivery System, there will be history in the making. SDS won’t be an engineering marvel. It will merely be a 43-mile-long pipe with a bathtub on…
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NOREEN: To enjoy this you have to be sick
Tuesday’s Colorado Springs City Council meeting could be likened to a double feature, “The Three Faces of Eve” and “Psycho.” Only Alfred Hitchcock, a meth-crazed sadist or someone suffering from narcissistic personality disorder could have derived pleasure from the spectacle, which fluctuated from the grisly to the bizarre, to just plain sad. The council, forced…
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NOREEN: Won’t you be my neighbor?
When Colorado Springs Utilities completes the $1.4 billion Southern Delivery System, there will be history in the making. SDS won’t be an engineering marvel. It will merely be a 43-mile-long pipe with a bathtub on either end. But for the many El Paso County water providers, the SDS plumbing will provide a historic opportunity. The…