Tag: funding
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GUEST OPINION: Federal tax credit unlocks funding for Colorado students
Colorado is poised to gain hundreds of millions of dollars in new resources for K-12 education. Much of that investment will be driven not by another line item in a school district budget, but by Coloradans choosing to invest directly in students. The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit will take effect in 2027, allowing taxpayers…
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LETTERS: Explain the decision; Proposition NN
Explain the decision Academy District 20 asked community members to apply for a vacant Board seat. What followed looked less like a serious evaluation than a predetermined sorting exercise. There was no public discussion of applicants, no comparison of qualifications and no disclosed criteria or scoring. Board members simply arrived with their preferred candidates. The…
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OnlyMarms? Biologists in Colorado turn to OnlyFans crowdfunding for marmot study after grants dry up
Daniel Blumstein is worried about money. Blumstein, a UCLA professor who heads the Marmot Project at Crested Butte’s Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, has seen federal funding he relies on to pay his graduate student researchers dwindle in recent years. “Every penny I’ve gotten from the federal government has been helpful, needed and essential. Graduate students…
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Pikes Peak or Bust Parade returns for 83rd year following cancellation scare
After a brief cancellation scare, the Pikes Peak or Bust Parade will return for its 83rd year on Saturday, welcoming the cowboys and cowgirls competing in the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo from July 14-18. A Colorado Springs summer staple, the downtown parade boasts a lineup of marching bands, floats and riders on horseback. In…
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Locked park restrooms is not a viable solution
The headline read, “Colorado Springs to Close 10 park bathrooms Amid Funding Shortfall. This inconvenience is caused by a $2 million shortfall in the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. Sales tax revenue came in lower than expected so the department’s budget dropped from $19 million to $17 million. “Our staff tried to minimize and spread out the impact as much as possible, while…
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Colorado Springs man donates nearly 100,000 aluminum tabs to charity — one beer at a time
A Colorado Springs man recently made a sizable, if somewhat unorthodox, donation to Ronald McDonald House. On Thursday, Roger Wertheimer drove to the temporary home for families of critically ill children and dropped off a collection that took more than a decade to build, with a little help from his friends: a haul of aluminum…
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Feds award $75 million to Entegris for tech firm’s new $600 million Colorado Springs manufacturing center
Entegris, the Massachusetts-based supplier of electronic materials for semiconductor makers and other industries, is slated to receive $75 million from a federal program designed to boost the nation’s chipmaking capacity — money that would support construction of the company’s state-of-the-art, $600 million manufacturing facility being built in Colorado Springs. The company and the U.S. Department of…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Contentious back-and-forth follows miscommunication, grant denial for NAMI Colorado Springs
After what El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal described as a miscommunication, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Colorado Springs will not receive funding for a school-based addiction prevention program. The Region 16 Opioid Abatement Council granted and then revoked almost $40,000 in grant funding during its April meeting that NAMI Colorado Springs had expected…
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Prospect Lake beach house has reopened
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Prospect Lake’s beach house in Memorial Park reopened July 13 after the beach house shut down nearly two years ago for renovations, a city news release announced. The city planned to celebrate the Eni R. Jasperson Beach House’s reopening with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday at…