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		<title>Memorial CEO severance decision delayed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gillentine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than an hour in executive session, the Colorado Springs City Council postponed the decision about outgoing CEO Larry McEvoy&#8217;s $1.15 million severance package. The reason, said council president Scott Hente, was to get more advice from city attorney Chris Melcher. &#8220;This is a complicated issue,&#8221; Hente said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about contract law, about labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado consumers could benefit from Sketchers settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gillentine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a pair of Sketchers rocker-bottom shoes – you could get $20, thanks to a settlement with the footwear company. &#160; Colorado is part of a 45-state, $45 million settlement with Sketchers USA, the maker of Sketchers footwear, to resolve allegations of deceptive trade practices. &#160; John Suthers, the Colorado Attorney General, released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters disrupt WellPoint annual meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; WellPoint Inc. shareholders rejected a call for more disclosure about the health insurer&#8217;s political contributions Wednesday during a shout-filled, contentious annual meeting. &#160; Union representatives and other protesters repeatedly interrupted Chairwoman and CEO Angela Braly after she opened the meeting and introduced proposals for shareholder voting. One person presented a petition she said was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown board delays Gasoline Alley issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Downtown Review Board voted unanimously today to postpone the hearing on an application for a conditional use permit to expand downtown bar Gasoline Alley. The proposal to expand has become controversial because downtown business owners and residents say there are already too many downtown bars, bringing noise and crowds. Vince Lindon, an attorney representing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Csintyan: Staying in Springs, staying involved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gillentine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outgoing Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce CEO Dave Csinytan isn’t planning on leaving town – but he is weighing his opportunities carefully. Csintyan lost his position with the chamber when it merged with the Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp., and the group launched a national effort to find a new CEO. Csintyan was a finalist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workforce program adds $2 million to local economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gillentine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a state effort, the Pikes Peak Workforce Center added more than $2 million to the local economy and helped 837 people find job training. The Colorado Enhanced Approved Training Program allows people in the state who are receing unemployment benefits to receive 50 percent more a week if they are attending a traning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care costs rise to more than $20,000 annually</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AM Roundup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of providing health insurance for a family of four now costs more than a new car, according to the Los Angeles Times. Health care costs rose 7 percent to more than $20,728 a year, said an annual report by Milliman. The percentage of increase is the lowest in more than a decade, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New home construction exceeded April forecasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AM Roundup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Builders in the United States broke ground on more homes than expected in April, according to Bloomberg. Housing starts rose 2.6 percent to a 717,000 annual rate, the business news outlet said. Employment gains, low housing prices and record-low mortgages are the cause for the surge. Read more at Bloomberg. ]]></description>
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		<title>Needy states use mortgage settlement money to plug budget holes</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/05/16/needy-states-use-mortgage-settlement-money-to-plug-budget-holes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AM Roundup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to go to needy homeowners are instead being used to fill state budget gaps, reports the New York Times. California joined more than a dozen states this week that is using its share of a multi-billion settlement the federal government made with the nation&#8217;s lenders. California received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill to help cut business unemployment-insurance costs heads to final action</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/05/16/bill-to-help-cut-business-unemployment-insurance-costs-heads-to-final-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill that would help businesses cut unemployment insurance costs by allowing the state to sell bonds to repay its unemployment debt to the federal government received final approval in the House of Representative.s The bill also received initial approval in the state Senate during a special session. Read more at the Denver Business Journal. ]]></description>
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