Colorado had the 10th-highest level of residential mortgage fraud during 2008, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The No. 10 spot is up from the state’s 2007 ranking of No. 17. The state was No. 8 on the list during 2006, No. 6 in 2005 and No. 3 in 2004. Rhode Island was No. 1 [...]
Continue reading …The Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs and the city are floating the idea of extending downtown parking meter fee hours to include weekday and weekend nights to raise money to save the free downtown shuttle. While no plan is certain yet, the idea was born of the downtown partnership’s desire to continue service of the [...]
Continue reading …(A.P.) Oil prices tumbled to around $44 a barrel on Monday after OPEC decided not to cut production levels at its meeting over the weekend in Vienna. Benchmark crude for April delivery was down $1.59 to $44.66 a barrel by mid-afternoon in Europe on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil prices dropped 78 cents on [...]
Continue reading …Ballots for the April 7 mail-in election will be mailed to registered voters starting today. Candidates for four city council districts and four tax issues will be included on the ballot. Ballots must be received by the clerk’s office by mail or by drop-off by 7 p.m. on April 7th. If a voter has not [...]
Continue reading …The list of states eligible for an extension of emergency unemployment benefits was released today – and Colorado did not make the cut. To qualify for the extension the state’s unemployment needed to average 6 percent for the three-month period between November and January. Colorado’s unemployment averaged 5.9 percent during that time. “We couldn’t believe [...]
Continue reading …The State of Colorado has launched a Web site that list all the state’s road projects being paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Web site, www.dot.state.co.us/arra/, includes project descriptions, amount of ARRA funds dedicated to the project, project status and photos. The site will be updated biweekly. Colorado will receive more than [...]
Continue reading …During fiscal year 2008, the Internal Revenue Service collected more than $2.3 trillion in taxes and processed more than 250 million returns and filed more than 101 million returns. Want to know what else the IRS is up to? It’s all in the annual IRS Data Book, which was posted on the Web today. The [...]
Continue reading …The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that Colorado’s cigarette smoking rate significantly declined from 1998 through 2007. The CDC analyzed data from the 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey and found that smoking prevalence decreased in 44 states including Colorado – which decreased from 22.8 percent in 1998 to 18.7 percent in [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Police have arrested three local people accused of running a small identity theft ring. Fox 21 News is reporting that police arrested 24-year-old Corey Barnett Skinner, 32-year-old Mark Nielsen, and 22-year-old Amanda Stillwell. All three are accused of stealing and using credit card information from at least 48 people. They’re also accused of charging [...]
Continue reading …Eleven debt management and credit counseling companies have settled investigations with the Colorado Attorney General office under credit and consumer laws that went into effect last year. The companies will refund a total of $923,370 in program fees to 912 Colorado consumers. Debt management companies generally work with unsecured debt such as credit cards and [...]
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