January foreclosure rates in Colorado Springs have increased, but the city remains far below the national rate.
First American CoreLogic reported this week that January’s foreclosure rate among outstanding mortgage loans was 1.84 percent for the month – an increase of slightly more than one-half percent compared to January 2009 when the rate was [...] [...]
A dozen Southern Colorado business and tourism organizations have joined forces to create the Southern Colorado Business Partnership.
The partnership, which is essentially an expanded, renamed Pikes Peak Regional Business Partnership, is expected to give southern Colorado greater lobbying and business attraction power.
The “yellow curtain” dividing Colorado Springs and Pueblo [...] [...]
Gasoline prices in Colorado Springs were up 1.5 cents during the past week, a much lower gain than in the rest of the nation.
Average gas prices rose to $2.46 in Colorado Springs, while the national average increased 3.5 cents per gallon in the last week - making the national average $2.65, according to gasoline price [...] [...]
“Do you cut yourself with knives, razor blades, broken glass, needles, nails, paper clips, pins, scissors, tacks, anything you can get your hands on? Do you bang your head against walls? Punch walls till your hand goes all bruised and bloody? Do you throw yourself through panes of glass? Expose your body to extreme weather [...] [...]
The economy, as sobering as it is, occasionally has its humorous moments.
Take yesterday’s Institute of Real Estate Management Economic Forecast breakfast, for example. The event’s several hundred attendees were treated to overviews from three residential, commercial and multifamily real estate experts along with perspective from Land Title Guaranty’s Sara Martin and Colorado Springs [...] [...]
Tim Leigh, co-founder of local real estate firm Hoff & Leigh, said he filed paperwork this afternoon to become a candidate for mayor of Colorado Springs.
He described his platform as focused on positive efforts to “move the city forward.”
While Leigh did not identify a specific plan to solve the city’s financial crisis, he said he [...] [...]
Angela Joslyn will be the new director of the Office of International Affairs.
Currently working for U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Joslyn has a master’s degree in international relations, earned in Japan. She also has hands-on experience in various countries from Panama to Japan. She has served on the board of the Okinawan International Women’s Club.
She replaces [...] [...]
Colorado Springs’ faith-based nonprofit organization Biblica – a new name for the International Bible Society and Send in the Light which merged during 2007 – has been named one of the country’s Top 20 Grant-making Foundations for Christian Organizations.
The foundation gives both nationally and internationally to Christian organizations that further its mission of translating, [...] [...]
In a drastic move to address general fund budget gaps, the city has begun to remove trash cans from neighborhood parks.
About 400 trash cans will be removed from 128 neighborhood parks and from all urban trail corridors within the next two weeks.
Justifying the decision, city spokesperson Julie Smith said, ”The parks department spends approximately $5,700 [...] [...]
Colorado Springs suburbs are bucking a nationwide trend known as “the suburbanization of poverty.”
While the number of poor people living in suburbs grew by 25 percent from 2000 to 2008, the poverty rate in Colorado Springs’ suburban areas showed no change - but a significant increase inside the city limits, according to findings from [...] [...]
