CSBJ Daily

The Mountain States Employers Council says Colorado workers can expect a slight bump in pay next year – unless they work in Colorado Springs.
Overall, the council is projecting a 3.7 percent pay raise next year, up from 3.6 percent given in 2007.
But, Colorado Springs employers are expected to only offer a 3.4 percent raise during […]

The Colorado chapter of the American Planning Association recognized two Colorado Springs projects at its annual conference, held Oct. 4-6 in Colorado Springs.
The association recognized the Imagine Downtown master plan which won a Community Engagement Award because of the extensive public input that was incorporated into the plan and the progress it’s made. The voter […]

Colorado’s severance taxes, coupled with a “dizzying array of exemptions and deductions,” have cost the state nearly $1.3 billion in foregone tax revenue, says a report from Community Office for Resource Efficiency.
Severance taxes are levied on the industry to recoup part of the value of resources such as natural gas, oil and coal forever “severed” […]

PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. has released its list of the “riskiest” markets [1.2MB pdf] for home appreciation, and the news is generally good for Colorado’s homeowners.
The ranking is based on data from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight House Price Index.
While Riverside-San Berandino-Ontario, Calif. tops the list, metropolitan areas such as Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev., […]

A heck of a lot of science went into making the iPod and other digital music players work.
Two scientists whose research helped produce the small storage devices in MP3 players were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this week.
Albert Fert, 69, from France, and Peter Grünberg, 68, from Germany, discovered a physical effect in […]