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Council members plan to ditch Mayor’s speech
As Eddie Cochran once sang “There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues.” The blues may be affecting at least two council members, who plan to skip Mayor Rivera’s June 30 “State of the City” address. In an e-mail to chamber president Dave Csintyan, vice Mayor Larry Small not-so-regretfully said he wouldn’t attend. “It has come to my [...]
Continue reading...City Council, just shut up
Monday, May 17, 2010
Our poor city! Here we are in the regional/national spotlight as a city without streetlights, a city that can’t water its parks, a city that doesn’t fill its potholes and a city governed by a quaint mix of religious fanatics and anti - tax zealots. This is a time for keeping our heads [...]
Continue reading...USOC moves in
Monday, May 3, 2010
In a low – key ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:30 this morning, the United States Olympic Committee officially moved into its city - funded headquarters building at 27 South Tejon. There were no bands, no banners, no Olympic athletes, no children’s choir singing the Olympic Anthem - just Mayor Rivera, El Pomar CEO Bill Hybl, [...]
Continue reading...Meet our city’s new mayor
Monday, March 8, 2010
Judging from recent election results, a majority of Colorado Springs voters will support any reasonable measure to cure the city’s ills, as long as the measure doesn’t involve the dreaded “T” word. That may be why a proposal to change the city’s form of government to the so-called “strong mayor” system has gotten so much traction. A [...]
Continue reading...TABOR, the Constitution and the Kingdom of Colorado Springs
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Colleen O’Connor reported this morning in the Denver Post that Herb Fenster, a prominent Boulder attorney, plans to sue the state over TABOR, claiming that the 1992 Douglas Bruce initiative, which extensively amended the Colorado Constitution is itself unconstitutional. “His lawsuit,” O’Connor wrote,“ will argue that TABOR deprives the state legislature of its power to tax and [...]
Continue reading...Repent, O Mayor, of your ruinous misadventures
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Scampered over to City Hall yesterday afternoon to attend the Mayor’s hastily announced press conference. Like everyone else in the room, I was curious to hear what he had to say. Would he surprise us? Would he depart from his usual script? Nope. He was as confident, as knowledgeable, as well prepared, and as smooth as ever. Neither [...]
Continue reading...Commission votes, mayor gloats
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
As predicted by many, the two-member Independent Ethics Commission cleared Mayor Lionel Rivera of any violation of the city Code of Ethics, as alleged in the complaint filed by Ron Johnson. The report is carefully crafted, fair, judicious and as complete and accurate as it could be, given the limited scope of the inquiry. As the report [...]
Continue reading...Mason, Berlin not interviewed by ethics commission
Thursday, August 6, 2009
As of early this morning, the Independent Ethics Commission had yet to release the results of their investigation into alleged conflicts of interest involving Mayor Lionel Rivera. We don’t know who the ethics commission interviewed during their investigation, or whether they made use of their notably weak powers of subpoena. As we pointed out when the [...]
Continue reading...Groucho, Karl and the USOC
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”- Karl Marx Last week, councilmember Jerry Heimlicher vowed loudly and publicly that, joined by a majority of his colleagues, he would insist that council be updated on the USOC deal in open session. That didn’t happen. Yesterday during the informal City Council meeting, avisibly chastened Heimlicher made only fleeting reference [...]
Continue reading...No ‘poena’ in subpoena
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Last Friday, the Colorado Springs Independent Ethics Commission asked Central Bancorp CEO Ron Johnson to provide a list of all individuals whom he believes possess relevant information about the conflict of interest allegations that Johnson has made concerning Mayor Lionel Rivera. In a reply dated June 19, consisting of 15 rambling pages of often-turgid prose, Johnson’s [...]
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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