How much is a politician worth? No, this is not a joke or a trick question. According to OpenSecrets.org, the richest House member, Jane Harman, D-Calif., is worth $409.4 million; the wealthiest senator is John Kerry, D-Mass., $267.8 million. The average...
Perry Swanson, The Gazette's demographics reporter, dug up a study that shows the cost of divorce and unwed moms to taxpayers. He says a recent study by the Institute for American Values, a self-described nonpartisan...
For the first time in Colorado Springs, artwork will grace the grounds of a fire station. A fire station? Why not, city officials say. Some kind of piece - sculpture, mural or other medium - will be...
Colorado Springs got a windfall last week when city-owned Colorado Springs Utilities agreed to pay $1.22 million for 4.3 acres. That's $283,720 per acre for land a Briargate developer gave the city in 1982 for use as an electric and fleet service center....
Record time It took the Colorado Springs City Council just 192 hours to race the U.S. Olympic Committee's five-ring logo onto business cards and stationery. After voting Tuesday to allocate $1.5 million from reserves - the first of $27 million taxpayers...
Reporter Brian Newsome has worn a path in the carpet from his newsroom mailbox to the recycle bin from tossing a profusion of announcements from the higher education beat. He explains why:After nearly two decades of child-rearing, parents are understandably...
Tootles Memorial Health System CEO Dick Eitel packs it in Monday, with a big check in his pocket. Eitel, 55, retires after 33 years at cityowned Memorial, the last five as CEO with a salary of $444,412 a year. Eitel stepped down after the hospital spent...
People in the news may fade from the scene, but they often resurface. Here's an update on a few of those faces: Reporter Perry Swanson was on the beat at the El Paso County Republican Assembly when he ran into a guy some called the sixth county commissioner....
Colorado Springs' mayor is front and center, mobbed by cameras, when big economic development news happens. A top commander, or the police chief himself, takes the podium to announce a key arrest. But some workers, turning a wrench in the snow at 3 a.m.,...
The El Paso County Attorney's Office made secret deals with taxpayer money and then convinced a judge to hide the court cases from the public. That sounds like a Third World despotic regime, not the United States of America. The cases involve questionable...