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Recession means more karaoke, fewer live bands

MARK BARNA

That music you hear is more likely coming from someone’s car or home stereo than your nearest bar or night club. With the economy still on shaky ground, live music in local night spots is in a tailspin, local musicians and club owners say,... Full story

MILITARY UPDATE: Agency suggests new bid for Tricare contract

Tom Philpott

Aetna Government Health Plans of Hartford, Conn., appears to have gained an unfair advantage in competing for Tricare’s North Region support contract, valued at $16.7 billion, by hiring a former chief of staff at Tricare headquarters to help... Full story

Colorado State Fair showed $816,000 profit this year

PUEBLO • The Colorado State Fair had a net profit of $816,000 this year, the best since it cut back to an 11-day run. Fair officials met in Pueblo last week to analyze the numbers. Last year, the net profit was $343,000. The fair has... Full story

Program aims to stop youths' lives of crime

EILEEN WELSOME

In the eye-for-an-eye world of the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, kids who get caught stealing bicycles have to buy new ones. It’s all part of the learning process in the DA’s diversion program, a highly lauded effort... Full story

SIDE STREETS: City low-interest loan program can rehab a home or a whole neighborhood

BILL VOGRIN

Everyone knows it’s a tough economy. Got drafty windows? They’ll wait another year, right? Furnace getting old? It’ll last the winter, right? And, heck, nobody is lending money for things like home repairs anyway, right? Wrong.... Full story

OUR VIEW: Renounce 'pray for Obama' trend

NOTE: Our View editorials uphold a proud tradition at The Gazette of advocating individual freedom, constitutional law, faith, and limited government. Editorial opinions have no connection with The Gazette’s news division, and do not express... Full story

Three shot, two stabbed in Springs on Saturday night

BILL REED

Party time turned ugly in a trio of incidents in Colorado Springs on Saturday night that left three people shot and two men stabbed, but none dead. All three violent assaults happened in about a two-hour period between 10 p.m. and midnight, police... Full story

Militia movement resurfaces across the nation

NIKISKI, Alaska • Norm Olson's genial tone belies his reputation as a radical militiaman, yet here he is, at 63, an affable grandfather explaining why Americans should arm themselves against their government. Walking stick in hand, clad in... Full story

NOREEN: Another Big Idea: TABOR time-out would help us

BARRY NOREEN

Here is Big Idea No. 2: Colorado Springs should think about having an election in 2010 to free itself, if only temporarily, from the revenue caps imposed by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. TABOR backers will reflexively recoil from this idea,... Full story

Colorado Crossing: "It's a mess"

RICH LADEN

With the local and national economies foundering, the local construction industry needed a developer with money problems like it needed bad weather during a road project. But that’s what happened at Colorado Crossing on Colorado... Full story

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