Author: DANIEL CHACÓN
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City spending millions on outside attorneys
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lawyers from the private sector have billed the city of Colorado Springs more than $7.5 million since 2010, an amount that new City Attorney Chris Melcher hopes to rein in. In 2010, the city and…
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Police: Fight near motorcycle club led to killing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Police offered no new details Sunday morning in a deadly shooting that happened a day earlier. Officers say they’ve made no arrests in the case. They also haven’t released the name of the man who…
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Mayor’s calendar a secret for more than half of his appointments
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Police violate city policy on take-home vehicles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs Police Department’s tracking of dozens of take-home government-owned vehicles is so incomplete no one can say if officers are using them to respond to emergencies, commuting or personal errands. It’s not just…
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Stormwater Enterprise to end in 2011
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Stormwater Enterprise will cease to exist, but not until December 2011. A split Colorado Springs City Council decided Monday to phase out the enterprise over two years, allowing the city-owned business to finish projects…
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Cut stormwater or I’ll cut taxes, Bruce threatens city
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce is threatening to start a petition drive for a property tax cut in Colorado Springs if the City Council doesn’t immediately end the Stormwater Enterprise, an effort that could possibly cost…
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Contractor says USOC fix won’t cost city any money
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A construction project designed to prevent blocks of snow and ice from falling off of the roof of the new U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters again got off the ground Friday. “We’ll work through the weekend…
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‘Last-ditch effort’ to save FREX in limbo
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The FREX commuter bus service between Colorado Springs and downtown Denver, another casualty in the city government’s proposed 2010 budget, may have a lifeline. But riders, drivers and other stakeholders will have to wait until…
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Delinquent stormwater fees a political hot potato in clerk’s race
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The city’s quandary about how to collect overdue stormwater fees from thousands of property owners could turn into a political hot potato for El Paso County Treasurer Sandra Damron in her campaign for another county…
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Glenn hopes to help parks, buses by trimming police perk: take-home cars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado Springs city councilman is driving a cost-cutting effort that could put the brakes on a police perk: take-home government vehicles. Hoping to ferret out an additional $1 million from the Police Department’s 2010…