CSBJ Daily

After seeing all the images of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, I’m feeling kind of good today about the the replacement and updates on our aging Bijou and Cimmarron street bridges over I-25.Well, better than I ever have, at least.
Anyone whose commute into downtown Coloradao Springs requires using or crossing the path of I-25 […]

While lounging about in Tony’s last night, I was alerted to a new phrase in [american] english: It’s a doggy dog[g] world.This came to me from school teachers who have not only heard students using the phrase, but also adults. At first we were all surprised and dismayed, noting the derivation from It’s a dog-eat-dog […]

Way back in the early 70’s, when I was pretending to be an investment banker in New York, I met with a delegation of Native Americans who were concerned about plans to construct a massive coal-fired generating plant on tribal lands. In heart-rending detail, they told me how disruptive this would be to their way […]

Reports today that Colorado’s K-12 schools aren’t making progress do not bode well for the state’s economic development efforts.
According to the 2007 Colorado Student Assessment Program results released yesterday, one-third of students cannot read adequately and nearly half are below standards in math, with 70 percent of 10th-graders below proficiency in arithmetic.
Colorado Springs is not […]

I get a lot of email.
I subscribe to numerous business journals’ daily electronic versions, like the one that you probably just clicked through to read this blog.
And, because I’m in the media business, I tend to get a lot of extra e-mail. Everyone wants something, and everyone sends me press releases. A pet peeve of […]