Anti-meth campaign set to launch next week in Colorado
LOVELAND -- Methamphetamine can affect all types of different people, even those furthest from using it themselves. Now, an anti-meth campaign will launch next week to show those dangers. Partnership for a Drug-Free America and Rep.
Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., announced the media campaign on Wednesday at Island Grove Regional Treatment Center. Deb Hill, an addiction counselor with Island Grove, talked about her experiences with meth, especially the first time she used the drug. "I had found nirvana," Hill said. [Read full article]
Back in the high life Colorado Springs airport soars with new growth
With an improved terminal, a new military terminal under construction and progress toward a major aeronautical industrial park, the Colorado Springs Airport has a lot going on. The city-owned airport serves an estimated 1 million people in Southern Colorado, according to Aviation Director Mark Earle, approximately half of them from Colorado Springs.
Home to seven passenger carriers, the airport saw approximately 2 million people get on or off a plane in 2005 and is due to have more this year. "Our traffic is growing at 2 percent to 3 percent a year, which is healthy," Earle said. The movement of thousands of more soldiers to the Fort Carson Army camp only will help because of the support personnel and families accompanying the soldiers, he said. That equals more people who travel, and therefore, more people who fly.
City of Colorado Springs establishes a Solicitation Exclusion Zone The City of Colorado Springs intends to establish a "Solicitation Exclusion Zone," which would include most of downtown, according to Police Commander Kurt Pillard, who heads the Gold Hill Division, which includes downtown. Pillard said that individuals who have been convicted of aggressive panhandling will be barred from the zone for a year. Such individuals, once identified, would be subject to immediate arrest if found within the boundaries of the zone. Such exclusion zones are already in place to combat prostitution on South Nevada and East Platte avenues. |
Colorado Springs local government to blame for prolonged recession Fifteen years ago, Springs voters narrowly approved two tax reduction/tax limitation charter amendments, both sponsored by a then-obscure anti-tax activist, Douglas Bruce. After a prolonged local recession, highlighted by the utter collapse of the local real estate market (remember when the Wall Street Journal referred to Colorado Springs as "the foreclosure capital of America?"), the voters were looking for someone to blame. And who better to blame than city government? Hadn't the feckless city council bulled through a massive tax increase a few years before, claiming it was just a temporary levy? |