Author: Wayne Heilman Special to the Gazette
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Linda Leitz: New law changes tax on alimony
The major financial issues in a divorce have always been dividing property, which is what the legal system calls assets and debts, and spousal maintenance, also known as alimony. In divorces where spousal maintenance is an issue, that has often been the most difficult financial question to resolve. Generally, both spouses are expected to be…
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Movers & Shakers: Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson has been promoted to art director at Blakely + Co. He joined the advertising agency four years ago as a graphic designer. He previously spent 1½ years as an associate designer with Kris Akse Designs. He has an associate’s degree in graphic design from Pikes Peak Community College.
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New general manager leads Cobham into Colorado Springs expansion
Cobham Semiconductor Solutions may not be the best-known or biggest computer chip manufacturer in Colorado Springs, but the British-owned company is about to raise its profile by spending $2 million to install an automated production line that will begin producing printed circuit cards this month. The company also is studying whether to remodel or expand…
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Jim Flynn: Money & the Law
As regular readers may have noticed, this column rarely addresses issues involving the Internal Revenue Code. That’s because the Internal Revenue Code is the most convoluted statute ever created — and I’m including here Colorado’s marijuana laws. (Typical passage: “For purposes of paragraph (3), an organization described in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to include…
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Movers & Shakers
Hannah Parsons, CEO of Exponential Impact, will attend a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education summit Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C., hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to help develop a five-year strategic plan for STEM education. Exponential Impact is a technology accelerator in Colorado Springs focused on…
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Colorado Springs sales tax rise for fifth consecutive month
Consumer spending in Colorado Springs continued in April at the moderate pace it has maintained throughout 2018, the latest sales tax numbers from the city show. Sales tax collections for May, based on transactions in April, rose 4.2 percent from May 2017 to $12.8 million. Collections have increased between 4 percent and 6 percent every…
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Colorado Springs gold firm begins construction on Nevada mine
Gold Resource starts work on Nevada mine Colorado Springs-based Gold Resource Corp. began construction Monday on its Isabella Pearl open-pit, heap-leach gold project in Mineral County, Nev. Ledcor Group began clearing the site to prepare for construction of the lead pad. Processing equipment, including the crushing plant, have been purchased and are stored nearby. “This…
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Movers & Shakers
Nancy Phillips, executive board chair of Flexential, a Charlotte, N.C.-based hybrid information technology data center operator, has become an investor and joined the board of Colorado Springs-based startup FoodMaven. She co-founded ViaWest, which was acquired last year by Peak 10. She was a founder and held leadership roles in RMi.net, Intrepid, TSC and Confertech. FoodMaven…
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Movers & Shakers
Lauryn Alderson has been promoted from account executive to digital marketing coordinator for Red Energy Public Relations. Jessica Kinninger and Katy Funke have joined the company as creative director and special events director, respectively. Kinninger received a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Funke has been director of Sweet Celebrations…