Posts Tagged ‘Economic Development’
Allegiant Air at the Colorado Springs Airport will add two nonstop flights to Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz. and Long Beach, Calif. starting Sept. 15.
The jet service is scheduled to operate twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Since 2002, Allegiant, known for its low-cost fares, has offered nonstop service from Colorado Springs to Las Vegas.
After the announcement was made this morning, Vice [...] [...]
Colorado Springs has been ranked by Men’s Health magazine and Gallup as one of the fittest, healthiest cities in the country.
The problem? The statistics don’t always support the hype.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report ranks El Paso County nowhere near the top of the state’s healthiest regions. Instead, it’s ranked 29th out of 56 counties [...] [...]
A bright, young workforce can act as a magnet, drawing entrepreneurial thinkers, risk-takers and innovation — all vital to a city on the move.
But it has been hard to keep young people in Colorado Springs in recent years and, so far, efforts to reverse the “brain drain” here are still very much at their nascent [...] [...]
In today’s knowledge and technology-driven economy, companies thinking of relocating are looking for cities with a highly skilled work force. An essential ingredient, therefore, of economic development of a region is the retention of young professionals.
As the economic downturn drags on, we are losing more and more of our talented workers, especially the younger ones, [...] [...]
What do you do when you run out of gas in the middle of the desert? You could be out of luck, especially if you’re out of cell-phone range. With a bit of fortune, a kindly motorist will stop, give you a lift to the next gas station, and you’ll find your way back to [...] [...]
I have argued for what I call “simple rules” for economic development. For the most part, these rules are non-prescriptive, but they do advocate limited actions by public officials. Yet many of us want to do something to promote the economic development of the region. We have pent-up energy and some financial resources to direct [...] [...]
Steve Stultz failed to show up for appointments, failed to install equipment properly and failed to make good on contracts, according to complaints filed with the Iowa Attorney General’s office.
Stultz, owner of Prevailing Power and Rocky Wind Power, sells wind-power generators for people’s homes. In each of the four complaints received by the attorney general’s [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
According to a Denver Post story, Colorado’s efforts to increase incomes and create jobs are losing to the efforts of our neighboring states.
Click here to read the story.
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Colorado Springs lacks positive leadership, community collaboration, is rapidly losing young professionals and the local Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights severely handicaps the city’s economic development efforts.
That’s the conclusion of the “Operation 60Thirty-five Action Plan” and the “Implementation Matrix” prepared by Angelou Economics of Austin, Texas, at the request of more than a dozen public and private [...] [...]
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