After months of news about decreasing Defense Department budgets, there’s a bright spot on the horizon for Colorado Springs. In 2014, the Pentagon plans to spend 27 percent of its Army construction budget at Fort Carson, bringing jobs and opportunities to the region, and signaling the increasing importance of the Mountain Post to overall defense [...]
Continue reading …May 8 LinkedIn Learn why LinkedIn has become the new hangout for human-resource professionals at a Better Business Bureau workshop from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Ent Federal Credit Union, 7350 Campus Drive. The event is free, and refreshments will be provided. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/linkedin-58. For more information, call Kelly Utermoehlen at the BBB at [...]
Continue reading …Nonprofits Nancy Wilson, the Front Range regional director for Mile High Youth Corps in Colorado Springs, has joined the board of directors of the Colorado Youth Corps Association. Wilson has a bachelor of science degree in nonprofit management from Regis University and has 25 years of nonprofit and youth development experience. Banking and finance Stephen [...]
Continue reading …Summit Wealth Group advisers earn designation Ross Haycock and Nathan Archuleta, advisers with Summit Wealth Group in Colorado Springs, have been awarded the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) designation from the Center for Fiduciary Studies. The designation signifies specialized knowledge of fiduciary responsibility and the ability to implement policies and procedures that meet a defined standard [...]
Continue reading …The current Colorado Springs apartment market is healthy — maybe the healthiest it has ever been. That’s the conclusion by area experts after reviewing the most recent vacancy and rent survey results from the Colorado Division of Housing. Vacancy, at 5.6 percent, is the lowest locally in more than a decade. But it’s not so [...]
Continue reading …Last week it was time for a haircut, so I made an appointment with my friend Tiffany, who has a salon in her south-side home. Tiffany’s a competent woman in her 40s who has been cutting hair for 20 years. Making ends meet was tough when she had young children, so she worked construction, bartended [...]
Continue reading …A health care pilot project could make Colorado Springs a magnet for businesses seeking to lower health care costs. The project seeks to bundle payments for chronic illness in an effort to lower costs for companies that self-insure employees. Self-insured employers pay for the bulk of employees’ health care costs themselves, and then use a [...]
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More than 40 men and women from Colorado Springs had just returned from spending much of last week in Omaha, Neb., on the annual Regional Leaders Trip. They came back energized by all they had seen and heard, thinking of fresh ways to apply the lessons from the trip, coordinated by the Colorado Springs Regional [...]
Continue reading …Local tourism officials say the Pikes Peak region is poised for a stellar season, and that wounds to the area’s image caused by last year’s Waldo Canyon fire are nearly healed. Convention and Visitors Bureau President and CEO Doug Price spoke about the state of the local tourism industry during the CVB’s annual business luncheon [...]
Continue reading …The current Colorado Springs apartment market is healthy — maybe the healthiest it has ever been. That’s the conclusion by area experts after reviewing the most recent vacancy and rent survey results from the Colorado Division of Housing. Vacancy, at 5.6 percent, is the lowest locally in more than a decade. But it’s not so [...]
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