Tag: the view from here
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NOREEN: Thanksgiving comes to tent town
‘Tis the day before Thanksgiving, and all ‘round the town, there are more homeless people than ever. The next census won’t be taken until January, but there’s no doubt there are more souls in tent town. The recession has increased homelessness. At recent meetings it’s been apparent that advocacy for the homeless in Colorado Springs…
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NOREEN: Another Big Idea: TABOR time-out would help us
Here is Big Idea No. 2: Colorado Springs should think about having an election in 2010 to free itself, if only temporarily, from the revenue caps imposed by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. TABOR backers will reflexively recoil from this idea, but at least it would not be a tax increase and it would offer…
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NOREEN: Water equals money; let’s green the parks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Utilities should provide water to the city’s parks for free. This would save city taxpayers about $25 million during the next decade and it would guarantee we would have green parks. Now there…
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NOREEN: Water equals money; let’s green the parks
Colorado Springs Utilities should provide water to the city’s parks for free. This would save city taxpayers about $25 million during the next decade and it would guarantee we would have green parks. Now there are a couple of ideas everyone can support. The downside? There are no free lunches. Instead of sprinkling 2.5 million…
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NOREEN: Economic development would be a good idea
It’s a famous story: Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization and he replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” What do you think of economic development? In Colorado Springs we’d say it sounds like a good idea — right after we asked, “Economic development? What’s that?” Seriously, there are…
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NOREEN: Save the clock tower
“Save the clock tower!” In “Back to the Future,” Marty McFly is approached by a woman distributing leaflets for a campaign to save the clock tower of the local courthouse, which was damaged by lightning many years earlier. In the 1970s, and it wasn’t even in a movie, some now-forgotten visionless bureaucrats wanted to take…
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NOREEN: Spare change? Plug a meter
Some people like to give spare change to panhandlers because it makes the donor feel all warm inside. Face-to-face charitable giving like that is so personal and satisfying, because the giver can see the smile and the gratitude. There’s immediate human gratification on both sides of the transaction. Now comes Homeward Pikes Peak, a Colorado…
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NOREEN: Meet the new Untouchables
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDITOR’S NOTE: Barry has updated the original version of his column to reflect City Council developments later in the day Tuesday. Colorado Springs police and firemen, don’t tell us you’re feeling our pain, because…
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NOREEN: Meet the new Untouchables
EDITOR’S NOTE: Barry has updated the original version of his column to reflect City Council developments later in the day Tuesday. Colorado Springs police and firemen, don’t tell us you’re feeling our pain, because you haven’t, not yet. By Tuesday afternoon, the City Council moved toward consenus on spreading the fiscal pain through the city…
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NOREEN: Recall? Let’s not lose our heads
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Off with their heads. By all means, let’s grab our pitchforks and storm the Bastille. After we lop off the head of the king, we can institute a reign of terror and lop off thousands…