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This might be official city water month. The ongoing drought and water scarcity keeps the topic of water in the forefront, and Colorado Springs Utilities is popping up everywhere to [...]

Because up to 80 percent of a community's job growth comes from existing employers, business retention is critical to the city's vitality, said Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation president [...]

You have to envy someone who, after earning a degree in urban planning, bags it for toys. Meet Ed West Klingman, who looks and acts like most other husbands and [...]

Don't have time for continuing education? How about a one-day course from eBay University, whose mission statement is to provide a global Internet market where 'practically anyone can trade practically [...]

A $2 million grant will enable the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to expand operations at its Network Information and Space Security Center, university officials said. The grant resulted [...]

Additional security measures since 9-11 made flying safer, but business travelers find it more time consuming and frustrating than ever. Therefore, more and more business fliers are bailing out of [...]

Those who ignore the city's newly enacted water restrictions for 2003 could find themselves warned, fined, shut off and generally shunned. The new ordinance is now in effect, and differs [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Haircuts at a half-buck each made it worthwhile for the Army sergeant to take his six sons over to Juarez for haircuts, the same for sodas, which [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Professional euphoria could describe the mood at the nation's premier space conference in Colorado Springs this week. The U.S. owns Baghdad, Saddam may be gone, and many [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell London (or Arizona) has nothing on Colorado Springs. The Cimarron Street bridge is falling down. And if it falls down people won't be able to drive on [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell For high school seniors, the four-year college experience is a cherry they can't wait to pluck. They are finally out of the eyes of parents, and anonymous [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell They're a little Elton, a little Elvis, part Dr. Seuss, and a whole lot of successful. The brothers Johnson, Kevin and Keith, are the driving force behind [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell When Iraq is rendered harmless and the artificially high cost of oil is reduced, the United States will enjoy an economic blip, said David Malpass, chief global [...]

Local business leaders, educators and community leaders will be honored at the 24th annual Arts/Business/Education Consortium's awards luncheon at the Antlers Adam's Mark Hotel on April 16. A concerned discussion [...]

After a late-season blizzard, plenty of Colorado Springs residents long for spring. A home show this weekend will help sate that yearning and give attendees a sneak preview of the [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell The landscape is strewn with the wreckage of plenty of good internet service business plans, and common sense tells you not to fly your flag on a [...]

Platform: Carpenter, a former city street department employee, believes in full governmental disclosure, ending wasteful spending, and giving the regular Joe a chance to succeed. Carpenter said he is qualified [...]

As one of the nation's fittest cities*, it was a no-brainer for sports drink company Accelerade to launch a major marketing effort in Colorado Springs this week. And because runners [...]

Platform: As assistant vice president and financial advisor with UBS PaineWebber in Colorado Springs, Rivera said his financial expertise, time spent as vice mayor on the present city council, and [...]

Platform: As a small business operator, Clark said she knows the issues small businesses face in dealing with the government, and she believes her two years on the council, plus [...]

Platform: Null said his basic platform is service, experience and integrity. He was elected to the city council twice, first in 1997, and was re-elected in 2001. He was supported [...]

Platform: Cardiologist Dr. Ted Eastburn, a present council member, believes his business experience and education would give him a step up as the city's mayor. His practice employs several physicians, [...]

What do you call a job that pays $6,250 per year, gobbles personal time at breakneck speed -- a job where you can have an entire city mad at you [...]

Platform: Like another candidate, Kretzschmar believes his non-elected experience will help him lead the city, and he hopes people like his unconventional approaches. Kretzschmar said he would put prisoners in [...]

Platform: Carter said she is a candidate for the people, the 'silent majority' who get heard infrequently. Carter said those voices reflect the views of her constituency, and she would [...]

There is nothing pretty about a steel mill: they are dirty, dangerous, and if you are the owner, it is a tough way to make a living. It is a [...]

When you buy a product, you pay a monetary price for it. Whether it is a newspaper, a new car or new suit, our basic understanding of how economics works [...]

It is no coincidence that American Red Cross units across the nation are offering up disaster preparedness information. Tornado season is coming up, the nation is already in terrorist season, [...]

There is no love sincerer, than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Depending on who you ask, a foodie is: 1) A person who has an ardent or [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Researchers would love to find the magic bullet, a single drug or treatment to cure all cancer. Of course, no cure exists -- yet. However, researchers at [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Lauren Bell's former husband hit the floor in an instant. Jawing one moment, almost dead the next. He survived the near fatal heart attack, only to discover [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell There is nothing pretty about a steel mill; they are dirty, dangerous, and if you are the owner, it is a tough way to make a living. [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Back in the old days, top-level executives seemed a different breed. They were held up as examples of propriety, success, and enterprise. They rarely were caught up [...]

Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace. It has a nice ring to it. But, on April 1, Colorado Springs residents will have a new mayor. Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace once again becomes [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell Even if it cost more to burn a light, 82 percent of Colorado residents queried in a major study want more of their electricity generated through renewable [...]

In the radio business, 10 minutes ago can be a long time -- the idea that a radio station would be mining hard rock and metal in Colorado Springs for [...]

The last reported case of smallpox in the U.S. happened more than 50 years ago; it has been more than 30 years since a case of smallpox was reported worldwide. [...]

How well Colorado Springs fares in the current economic downturn, no one knows. It is hard to find any city not facing escalating costs, budget challenges, and concern over paying [...]

While Vanion's rise and fall snared most of the attention in the past few months, a local telecommunications provider kept its head above water, and now is ready to launch [...]

Owners of three Outback Restaurants in Colorado City always suspected the right thing to do in the touchy fight between smokers and non-smokers is to do the 'right thing.' To [...]

What is the meaning of life, and are we alone? Hmm. We've always wondered about the meaning of life, theories abound, and nobody really knows (or do they?). However, the [...]

One of Colorado's largest law firms wanted to make its centennial observation especially meaningful, and after deliberation, it decided to hand over $100,000 to nonprofit organizations, but with a personal [...]

With people everywhere grieving over the loss of the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia, local space proponents also wonder how it will affect happenings in their own back [...]

What do you call the 70,000 unfilled high-tech jobs resulting from the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001? Colorado Technical University calls it opportunity and wasted no time [...]

No one knows for sure who opened the region's first Kentucky bluegrass store. But everyone knows the outcome Co grass was a good seller, and soon bluegrass was everywhere. However, [...]

Discriminating shoppers mostly look to brand names, typically confident their purchases will be satisfying, and delivered as promised. These products are readily available in chain stores, usually at reduced prices; [...]

If ever an irony existed, it is in the juxtaposition of an upcoming concert featuring legendary R&B musician Ray Charles and the Colorado Springs Symphony. Granted, the subject of blues [...]

Space may be infinite, but space allocated for the 19th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs April 7-10 isn't. But at least it is expandable Co that is a good [...]

Now is no time to take a head-in-the-sand approach to issues facing the city because with focus, determination and cooperation they are solvable, said Colorado Springs City Manager Lorne Kramer. [...]

Byline: Lance Gurwell One thing for certain in the future of the city's symphony orchestra is that the future is uncertain, said Colorado Springs Symphony Executive Director Larry Barrett. The [...]