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NOREEN: A meth garage and the case for pay cuts

BARRY NOREEN

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Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Gallagher went last week to a place no councilman had gone before when he said police retaliated against him for suggesting city employees should not be immune from pay cuts. Gallagher moved into a home with a... Full story

NOREEN: City hall keeping more secrets

BARRY NOREEN

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Colorado Springs officials don’t want you to know very much about the process for selecting 11 members of an advisory board that will make recommendations about whether to sell Memorial Hospital. On Tuesday, the city denied an open records... Full story

NOREEN: A golden opportunity dissed

BARRY NOREEN

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Ingots, doubloons or other coinage of the realm will not be stored in the state treasurer’s vault anytime soon, thanks to the defeat Tuesday of House Bill 1155, which would have begun a long-term gold-buying program for Colorado. Sponsored by... Full story

NOREEN: Grass-roots, or beneath the radar?

BARRY NOREEN

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Almost all of the scandals are legal ones. Sure, a Watergate or a Teapot Dome comes along once in a while. Far more often, our scandals have legal cover, which makes them all the more scandalous. The scandal du jour involves the way petitions were... Full story

NOREEN: Utility plan a wolf in sheep's clothing

BARRY NOREEN

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A report to plan for recreation on the south slope of Pikes Peak was unveiled by Colorado Springs Utilities this week with all the subtlety and finesse of a bulldozer. The horrendously overpriced pseudo science in the document is being used to... Full story

NOREEN: Of acorns and the USOC

BARRY NOREEN

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The continuing tale of Colorado Springs and the United States Olympic Committee is reminiscent of “Jim Baker’s Bluejay Yarn,” a short story written by the great Mark Twain.The city is committed to the USOC deal and over the long... Full story

NOREEN: A recall? You can't be serious

BARRY NOREEN

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“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.” --- the fictional president, Andrew Shepherd, from the film “The American President.” Last week Patrick Ayers, the Colorado Springs man who in... Full story

NOREEN: It isn't easy being green

BARRY NOREEN

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By April, the Colorado Springs City Council probably will reduce the rate the city’s parks department must pay for watering, but it looks like it will be only a modest change. Using general fund tax dollars, our parks pay a commercial rate... Full story

NOREEN: Constitution gets heavier without more weight

BARRY NOREEN

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“That government is best which governs least.” It’s an idea attributed to Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson and it has been embraced by many on both ends of the political spectrum. You’d think that in... Full story

NOREEN: High and dry is no place to be

BARRY NOREEN

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Sometime this century, the disappearing groundwater along Colorado’s Front Range is going to be a huge story. Water providers who have done their jobs will be able to witness this slow-motion train wreck from afar, safe in the knowledge that... Full story

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