Archives » March 17th, 2008

Downtown gets convenience store

Downtown Colorado Springs once again has a convenience store, Athan’s, at 32 E. Bijou St.
Owner Athan Loukakis opened the store Friday. The store sells sodas, cigarettes, snacks, aspirin, batteries and gum along with a few odds and ends such as envelopes and hand sanitizer.
Loukakis hopes to fill the downtown convenience store […]

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Fed makes two surprise moves

The Federal Reserve Board cut the primary credit rate another 25 basis points yesterday, to 3.25 percent, – two days before its regularly scheduled meeting.
The Fed also voted to authorize the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to create a lending facility that enables primary dealers to provide […]

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Colorado gets census bureau office

The U.S. Census Bureau will open a regional management center in Lakewood for the 2010 census.
The temporary center, at 6750 W. Jefferson Ave., will be one of several bases of operation around the country.
The office will run field census operations in Colorado as well as Arizona, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New […]

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Legal assistance availability dwindling

More people need legal assistance than ever before in Colorado – but there are fewer resources.
That’s the word from a yearlong Colorado Access to Justice Commission study.
The commission reports that Colorado’s vulnerable populations – which include people with disabilities, mental illness, AIDS and the elderly – need […]

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