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Colorado Springs Utilities board to consider alternative to controversial water rule
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The Colorado Springs Utilities board agreed Wednesday to consider an alternative to a highly controversial water rule. The proposed rule that has sparked concern in the development community would require the city to have 130% of the water needed to serve existing demand and projected demand from new land joining the city. It has sparked…
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Residents raise drought concerns at meeting on annexation southeast of Colorado Springs
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The drought across the West dominated concerns at a Colorado Springs town hall Tuesday about the possibility of adding 3,200 acres southeast of town that could be transformed into a new community of about 9,500 homes. The proposed community, known as Amara, is bounded on three sides by the city of Fountain and does not share…
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Colorado Springs proposed 2023 budget adds new police, firefighter positions
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The City of Colorado Springs plans to invest in more police and fire protection in next year’s proposed budget to help keep up with growth across town. The proposed budget expected to top $1 billion for all services includes 15 new police officer positions and 32 new firefighter positions needed to staff new fire stations. …
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COVER STORY | Unsustainable? Colorado’s government keeps growing
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Proponents of Colorado’s TABOR designed the constitutional amendment to curb government’s voracious appetite for more spending. But Colorado’s most recognizable tax law, which turns 30 this year, hasn’t stopped the state government from growing. Not even close. Consider this: lawmakers propose to spend $36.4 billion in the next fiscal year, an amount that funds 62,928…
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Every major Colorado industry will experience job growth in 2022, report says
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Every major Colorado industry will experience job growth in 2022, with many sectors returning to pre-pandemic levels, but leisure and hospitality won’t recover for years, according to the 57th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook. The report, prepared by the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, was presented Monday at the Grand Hyatt in downtown…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Hancock to face Giellis in mayor’s race runoff
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is headed for a runoff election with challenger and urban planner Jamie Giellis. Unofficial results at 1 a.m. Wednesday showed Hancock with 39% of the vote, falling short of the 50% plus one vote that he would have needed to avoid the June 4 runoff. They also showed Giellis, a former…
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THE PODIUM | We can’t slam the door on new housing if we want it to be affordable
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Coloradans dodged a bullet earlier this year when the proponent of a crippling anti-growth initiative walked away from the measure for lack of public support. The statewide ballot proposal would have had wide-ranging and devastating consequences – not only for the housing sector, which effectively would have been shut down, but also for our entire…
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A Colorado city makes U.S. top 10 for growth
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The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday ranked U.S. cities by population increase, and a Colorado community came in at No. 7 in the nation for the rate of its growth over a one-year period. It’s Castle Rock, which in the year ending July 1, 2017, grew by a rate of 5.1 percent, for an estimated…
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A ballot issue that mandates stagnation and recession? No thanks
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Colorado is a welcoming, pro-business state. We have one of the best performing economies in the country, even when times are tough. When the Great Recession hit almost 10 years ago, for example, we bounced back faster and stronger than the rest of the nation. That’s no accident. For decades, Colorado’s political and business leaders…
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Colorado experiences out migration, even as population grows
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A record number of people are moving out of Colorado, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. About 193,000 Colorado residents moved to other states last year, 10,000 more than in 2015. Where are they moving to? According to the data, the biggest percentage of them headed for Washington state, with other destinations being…
