The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
The country’s economic growth during January through March was the same as in the final three months of last year, […]
Online job vacancies have dropped for the second consecutive year.
Analysts from The Conference Board report that vacancies dropped 16.4 percent during April from the same time a year earlier, the second consecutive year of declines for the nation as a whole.
In April, there were 2.4 advertised vacancies posted online for […]
The U. S. Small Business Administration is offering low-interest disaster loans to residents and businesses affected by the Ordway fire.
By declaring a disaster, the action makes SBA assistance available. The SBA responded to a request from Gov. Bill Ritter.
The loans are available in the counties of Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Lincoln, […]
Colorado Springs earned a mention in the 2008 Best of the West Travel Guide – not for the statuesque rock towers in Garden of the Gods, not even for the region’s sentinel mountain, Pikes Peak, but for Cheyenne Mountain State Park.
The park is Colorado’s newest state park, located off Highway 115.
For […]
The 100 block of south Tejon Street will see a restaurant shakeup in the coming months.
Fujiyama Japanese restaurant and sushi bar at 28 S. Tejon St. #A will move two doors to the north, into the former Seabel’s space which is now vacant. Sonterra Grill owner Randy Price plans to open […]
Housing prices dropped during February at the fastest rate ever, according to The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index.
The plunge likely reflects that the housing slump is showing no signs of letting up.
The index of 20 cities fell by 12.7 percent from February 2007, the largest decline since its inception in […]
Springs-based Managed Business Solutions has been awarded a Web development contract from the state of Wyoming’s Department of Revenue.
The company will develop a new system that will expand the department’s Web presence and improve the state’s excise tax system, making it easier to collect excise taxes nationwide and distribute […]
Rising fuel prices are a big reason the U.S. Post Office will raise the postage price of the U.S. first class one-ounce letter from 41 cents to 42 cents on May 12.
Also, the cost of mailing a postcard will increase from 26 cents to 27 cents. The fee for a money order up to $500 […]
Headed to Vail or Copper Mountain for a Memorial Day getaway? You won’t have to worry about paying a $5 toll on Interstate 70 this year, but you may have to sit in traffic for a few hours.
Colorado Senate Minority Leader Andy McElhany has asked fellow lawmakers to kill Senate Bill 213, […]
In a Bureau of Economic Analysis report ranking the 50 states by rate of personal income growth and highest per capita income, Colorado scored both low and high.
It trailed Rocky Mountain states like Wyoming and Utah, which both had 6 percent or better per capita growth rates for 2006 to […]