by John Hazlehurst Published: August 27,2010
Tags: Colorado Springs, committees, Hazlehurst, Leadership
Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future’s not ours to see Que sera, sera — Doris Day, 1956 This is not a city that has ever taken Doris Day’s advice, so poignantly expressed in the saccharine little song that cluttered the airwaves half a century ago. We see ourselves as captains of [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: August 20,2010
Tags: economy, Hazlehurst
You’re a well-paid professional with a stable job. You have deep roots in your community. Three years ago, you bought your dream house. It’s a five-bedroom, three-bath home in a new development with nearly an acre of ground. You paid a little more than $550,000 for the home, putting down $120,000 to avoid paying the [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: August 13,2010
Tags: Hazlehurst
Remember when you got your first credit card? OMG — plastic money! Pretty soon, you reached the card’s credit limit. No problem — you just got another credit card, and another, and another … and all of a sudden, you owed Visa, Master Card, American Express and a host of department stores more than 10 grand. But [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: August 6,2010
Tags: Hazlehurst
There are few spectacles in nature as beautiful as that of a herd of pronghorn antelope in full flight. Here’s an account of a day spent with pronghorns by Arthur Einarsen, a wildlife biologist who studied Oregon pronghorns 60 years ago. “On August 14, 1936, I was with a group that paced many pronghorns (while driving [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: July 30,2010
Tags: Hazlehurst
Many years ago, in a moment of youthful weakness, I decided to run for city council. I asked my friend Tom Fischer for help. Fischer, a conservative Republican stalwart who had once run for Congress, was brief and to the point. “John,” he said “you come across as a Saks Fifth Avenue guy, and this is a [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: July 24,2010
Tags: Hazlehurst, Money, newspapers
“Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are already heading.” — Bradley Rotter We had finally reached the engine room floor of the Jeremiah O’Brien, after descending three steep metal companionways, and inching our way along spidery catwalks surrounded by steam lines, ventilators and machinery. The boilers were making steam, and the [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: July 17,2010
Tags: Douglas Bruce, TABOR
A few minutes before two last Thursday afternoon, the city council chambers were almost vacant. A graying, portly middle-aged man sat alone at a desk facing the council dais, surrounded by stacks of legal documents. It was Douglas Bruce, waiting patiently for the title-setting board to rule on his latest proposed charter amendment. Shuffling his papers absent-mindedly, [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: July 10,2010
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“Messieurs, Mesdames, faites vos jeux. Les Jeux sont faits. Rien ne va plus.” — Croupier in Monte Carlo, c. 1907 It’s difficult to imagine that any sane person would sit down and read the recently-released Powers Corridor Environmental Assessment for pleasure. It’s a quintessential government document; prepared by planners, engineers and bureaucrats to be read by [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: July 3,2010
Tags: John Hazlehurst, PERA
Let us consider the following press release from state Treasurer Cary Kennedy concerning the Public Employees Retirement Association, the state pension plan. “It is wrong for PERA to pay out bonuses to employees on the one hand, and on the other, ask retirees to give up cost of living increases in years when the market declines. …In [...] [...]
by John Hazlehurst Published: June 26,2010
Tags: law enforcement, Politics
It was hard not to feel sorry for the politicians, former politicians, wannabe politicians and hopeful candidates sweltering in the sun’s merciless glare last Thursday. There they were on the lawn of the county courthouse, uncomfortably besuited, declaring their fealty to GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. Speeches were made and applauded, endorsements were announced, press releases [...] [...]
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