It’s not surprising that North Korea’s ditzy young dictator couldn’t find Colorado Springs on the map, even while threatening nuclear attack. His uncertain physical geography may simply parallel our city’s murky psychic geography. We live here, but do we understand our place of residence? It’s as comfortable and unknowable as the Chelsea Hotel in the [...]
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It might have seemed like strange correspondence coming from the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau: a brochure on flood preparedness. But the CVB joined with the city of Colorado Springs to get out the flood preparation message to businesses across the Pikes Peak region. No one wants a repeat of last summer, when businesses [...]
Continue reading …Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach has instituted a new way of helping businesses form and grow that many believe is helping the Springs become the “most business friendly city” in the state. However, the program apparently hasn’t been as successful at creating jobs as the city’s economic vitality office touts. The office says its newly [...]
Continue reading …April 12 Careers 101 Pikes Peak Workforce Center is hosting a workshop, “Personality and Career: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,” from 10 a.m. to noon at 1675 Garden of the Gods Road. Register at www.ppwfc.org. Immigration Reform Panel: Registration Deadline Register by today to attend a panel discussion on the impact of immigration reform on Colorado businesses [...]
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Colorado Springs officials are hoping a new marketing strategy will save the Colorado Springs Airport from its nosedive of declining passengers and airport activity. The airport, like so many regional airports across the country, is caught in a swirl of factors including consolidating airlines, a sluggish economy and rising fuel prices. Every year for the [...]
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The Colorado Springs residential real estate market has more than just rebounded. It’s on fire. “This is probably the best market for selling a house in 12 years,” said Prudential Rocky Mountain Realtor Sylvia Jennings. And she’s not the only one with that kind of news. Local real estate agents are quick to share stories [...]
Continue reading …Lori Boyle joined SKR + Co. as an audit consultant. She was formerly with Kearney & Company in Alexandria, Va., where she worked as a supervisory senior auditor. She has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Penn State University and currently serves as a volunteer for the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region. OfficeScapes [...]
Continue reading …While the military is struggling with sequestration constraints, defense companies are confident they’ll survive the current and future budget cuts. The key, those companies say, is to be agile and offer a broad array of services and to provide innovation at low cost. “This is a budget cycle. It’s just another budget cycle for us. [...]
Continue reading …Mention the word “habit” and people generally think of addictions or bad behaviors. Change the word to “disciplines” and negative imagines of drudgery and hard work generally come to mind. But anyone who has ever raised children knows the positive value in developing “constant inclinations to act in a particular way, acquired through repetition over [...]
Continue reading …Are you leaving money on the table because you aren’t running your business as effectively as you could? What do you need to do to stay ahead of the curve? What should you do to reduce insecurity for your clients and employees, streamline marketing, and take advantage of technology with strategies to build your business? [...]
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