by Becky Hurley Published: January 27,2010
Tags: Employment, Pikes Peak Region, staffing
Staffing levels are slowly increasing, said the American Staffing Association’s January 2010 index report. Even better, hiring appears to be on the rise in the Pikes Peak region. The national trade organization found that staffing employment was 4 percent higher for January than during the same month a year ago. That news was especially [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: August 24,2009
Tags: El Pomar Foundation, Pikes Peak Region, unsolicited grants
This week the El Pomar Foundation's board of trustees will announce the last in a series of 10 regional awards - all unsolicited grants to area nonprofit agencies distributed through Colorado. [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: August 17,2009
Home sales statistics for the Pikes Peak region seem to be improving slightly and are impressing a number of national real estate industry researchers. In its online real estate feature story, “Best Cities for a Housing Recovery,” Forbes.com listed Colorado Springs No. 3 on its top 10 list of cities most likely to return from the downturn, based on [...] [...]
by Becky Hurley Published: April 23,2009
Tags: Foreclosures, Pikes Peak Region
Colorado Springs holds the dubious distinction as Colorado’s highest ranking city for new foreclosure filings during first quarter 2009. The news was released this week in an Irvine, Calif.-based Realty Trac “Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report.” The data seemed to reflect similar findings by Public Trustee Tom Mowle which showed that El Paso County saw only a [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: April 17,2009
Tags: Pikes Peak Region
“The Pikes Peak region.” Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? In a single phrase we identify ourselves, and not-too-subtly remind other regions that we have Pikes Peak, and they don’t. Would you rather live in the “Queen City of the Plains” (Denver), “The Asphalt Capital of America” (the fictitious Dacron, Ohio), the “Hog Butcher to [...] [...]
