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THE SPYGLASS: A tax by any other name still costs you
Comments | RecommendIt walks like a tax and quacks like a tax, but it's called a public improvement fee - a new way developers get into the pockets of citizens to pay for roads, utilities and other big-ticket construction. ...
THE SPYGLASS: ‘Plastax’ could add to depleted city coffers
Comments | RecommendSprings resident Katie Healy has an idea about how to fund local government. She's not an elected official or a member of an appointed board. But she reads a lot, and her inquisitive mind wonders if plastic shopping bags could render more gold unto Caesar....
THE SPYGLASS: See how the other half lives sustainably
Comments | RecommendAll the regular folks who live in older homes should jump in their cars during the Parade of Homes this month and drive to the northeast part of the city, in the Pine Creek subdivision, to see how the rich save the planet. On...
THE SPYGLASS: Rivera will run with the crowd on Sunday
Comments | RecommendMayor Lionel Rivera will run this weekend, but not for political office. He’ll lace up his New Balance shoes, plug in his headset and jog a 5K route starting in Memorial Park to promote the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation’s...
THE SPYGLASS: County flush with funds after septic rate increase
Comments | RecommendA friend from Oklahoma who wouldn't trust government with a nickel used to say a slick way to fund Big Brother would be with a toilet paper tax. How better to fund the government's diarrhea of the checkbook than by making every...
THE SPYGLASS: General’s Iraq speech heard by a select few
Comments | RecommendEverybody's who's anybody was at the Penrose House last Wednesday. About 90 people gathered to get the latest dope on the Iraq war from someone in the know. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno spoke to a who's-who crowd in the lush setting of a goldrush-era millionaire's...
THE SPYGLASS: Cities save money by tracking vehicles
Comments | RecommendWhen Mom watches you rake the yard, you're less apt to ditch the job to take a dip in the neighbor's pool. That's the principle behind a Deer Park, N.Y., company's product that it says saves cities and companies money. ...
City’s ethics commission is twiddling its thumbs
Comments | RecommendIn April 2007, Colorado Springs faced having to comply with the state's voterapproved ethics law advanced by Common Cause. The City Council believed it was too restrictive - according to the city attorney, it could even bar a...
Budget ‘crisis’ nothing new for the county
Comments | RecommendEl Paso County is in such dire financial straits that "the public no longer can get the same level of service from county government." County officials have repeated that so much of late it's starting to sound like background noise. ...
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