If you’ve ever wondered whether the waiter or waitress who brought you the wrong food order was on drugs, you might have been right.
A USA Today Associated Press story about a study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration said that 17.4 percent of restaurant workers admitted using illegal drugs in the last month.
The […]
Read: Employees on drugs?
Call me old fashioned, but I think the City Council should pass an ordinance making it illegal to wear clothes that show undergarments.
I’m sure the ACLU will take issue with this, but there are laws against grafitti and other forms of visually disparaging things, and I think the baggy pants thing is a form of […]
Last week, two Phoenix TV news helicopters collided during a frenzy to capture a car chase and carjacking on tape for the news cast that day.
The crash resulted in four helicopter crew members losing their lives. The suspect was arrested and charged with vehicle theft and eluding – and now, there’s word that police want […]
Is innumeracy (i.e., mathematical and/or arithmetical ignorance/incompetence) a problem among the political class? You’d certainly think so, given an article in this morning’s Denver Post questioning the financial assumptions of a couple of state legislators re revenue from gas wells on the Roan plateau in western Colorado. Here’s an excerpt:
“A proposal by statehouse Republicans […]
Read: Politicians and Numbers
About 150 people showed up at Security Service Field yesterday afternoon to celebrate the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Best Of 2007 party.
Each year, Business Journal readers are asked to vote for their favorite businesses, and this year about 100 businesses took top honors as the “best of ” in several different categories.
The Business Journal also […]
Ever wonder how savvy your are about avoiding phishing scams and bogus Web sites? McAfee SiteAdvisor has a simple 10 question test to help you determine your ability to spot a scam.Just for the record, I managed to answer nine of the 10 questions correctly. Must be all that spam that shows up in my […]
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It appears that the conventional wisdom about new cars losing a good chunk of their value the minute they’re driven off the dealer’s lot doesn’t hold up to real-world scrutiny, at least according to a story I came across while browsing Foxnews.com.Driving the Lemon Myth off the Lot kinda makes me wonder who started advocating […]
I think the Colorado Springs Independent does a pretty good job of what an alternative paper is suppose to do. A city with our size needs to have various media voices, and although you may not agree with them, they do serve a purpose.
As with many businesses these days, we are seeing consolidation, […]
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Co-publisher Chris Wood of the Northern Colorado Business Report in his column this week fails to mention that the Colorado Springs Airport is also in the running for the 101,000-square-foot, $15 million dollar Frontier Airlines heavy-maintenance facility. This facility could employ up to 200 employees at wages upwards of $75,000 and could bring Frontier flights […]
The Detroit News had an interesting article this morning about the much-quoted foreclosure stats published by Realtytrac. Here’s an excerpt.
“Two years ago, when RealtyTrac Inc. started releasing monthly foreclosure numbers, it filled an information void and became the self-appointed record keeper for the nation’s ugly spike in mortgage defaults.Those numbers have been widely reported […]