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Polis unveils housing, transportation vision as Colorado legislators prepare for renewed land-use debate

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

Gov. Jared Polis unveiled his vision for housing and public transit for the final three years of his term Thursday, a roadmap focused on the governor’s plan to tackle the interlocking crises of affordability and climate change through land-use reform and improved planning.The “Roadmap to Colorado’s Future 2026” lays out six broad objectives, largely targeted at increasing housing supply and affordability while seeking to dovetail those efforts with improved access to transit and the state’s climate goals.The 34-page document further cements Polis’ broader desire to reform land use and zoning across Colorado, along with calls for more strategic growth to maximize resources, prepare for wildfires and protect the state’s outdoor areas.Zoning reform and more coordinated strategic planning are policy solutions that the governor and other Democrats see as a panacea to several of the state’s current and future ills. The roadmap comes seven mo...

“The tide is shifting”: Breckenridge ski patrol union hopes its new contract inspires a shift in the industry beyond Colorado

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

Almost two years to the day since Breckenridge Ski Resort’s ski patrol union reached its first contract agreement in 2021 with its employer, Vail Resorts, the union has settled on a new contract in 2023.Related ArticlesOutdoors | Vail Resorts to acquire another Swiss ski resort as part of continuing European growth effort Outdoors | 5 best Colorado ski resorts for amateur snowboarders, ranked by a transplant The first contract was officially ratified on Dec. 14, 2021, and for the most part was a smooth process between the union and Vail Resorts representatives. “COVID took a lot of stress fractures in all industries — but definitely in the snowsports industry and the ski and vacation industry,” Breckenridge ski patrol union president Ryan Dineen said. “Like everybody, we were incredibly understaffed. Working under the complications of COVID was tough. It kind of highlighted a lot of the disparities that we were dealing with of being the ground f...

MJBizCon Back in Full Swing for 2023

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

Backed by expanding international markets and a new official smoking section, MJBizCon seemingly returned to its pre-pandemic glory in 2023. Make no mistake about it, the cannabis world was in Las Vegas last week. According to MJBizCon, 30,000 cannabis professionals from all over the globe descended on Sin City to see the industry’s latest and greatest. They weren’t disappointed. One buyer who was looking for hardware in all parts of the supply chain for himself and his distributor told us he felt like a lot of innovation was on hand this year. Octave’s new Flight Box.The innovation we found the most likely to crush in 2024 was Octave’s new Flight Box. Octave came on the scene first with awesome thermometers. Many heads regarded them as the best in the game. From there they expanded into vape hardware with a stealthy battery that looked like a nicotine vaporizer. With the Fight Box, they’ve added a filter that allows you to breathe the vapor back into the device. That’s ...

NCAA reform: Baker’s radical plan, the cost of paying players and the impact across the Pac-12 footprint

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

LAS VEGAS — NCAA president Charlie Baker took his case for reform to the public on Wednesday. He was compelling, candid, feisty, passionate and so very real — everything his predecessor, Mark Emmert, never was or could be.The proposal creates a subdivision for the top football programs and allows athletes to be paid directly from their schools. It would radically change college sports generally and college football specifically.It’s exactly what the association needs, only years too late. It’s proactive but defensive, impressively creative but rooted in desperation.“We need to be able to anticipate where conversations are going and to try to get this big, huge, diverse (association) with 2,000 members … to a place where they’re talking about stuff that’s common and not just responding and reacting to other people’s agendas,” Baker said Wednesday during a hotly anticipated appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s In...

Four-bedroom home in Fremont sells for $3.1 million

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

861 Owhanee Court – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 800 block of Owhanee Court in Fremont was sold on Oct. 10, 2023 for $3,100,000, or $1,023 per square foot. The house, built in 1984, has an interior space of 3,030 square feet. This two-story home offers a spacious layout with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. In addition, the home includes a three-car garage, ensuring ample room for parking and storage. The property’s backyard showcases a pool.These nearby houses have also recently been sold:On Sentinel Place, Fremont, in August 2023, a 2,709-square-foot home was sold for $2,620,000, a price per square foot of $967.A 4,591-square-foot home on the 45700 block of Vinehill Terrace in Fremont sold in February 2023, for $3,575,000, a price per square foot of $779. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.In June 2023, a 5,359-square-foot home on Napa Court in Fremont sold for $4,160,000, a price per square foot of $776. The home has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. 

Suspected San Francisco killer arrested on Fillmore Street

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A suspected killer was arrested in San Francisco this week in connection to a summer homicide, police said. The victim was fatally shot in the Bayview District on Quesada Avenue at 11:10 p.m. on August 4. The victim was pronounced deceased at a hospital. Homicide detectives identified a San Francisco man, 35-year-old Shilo Mitchell, as the prime suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest. Mitchel remained at-large until he was spotted by patrol officers on Fillmore Street Tuesday. "SFPD officers from Northern station were patrolling the area of the 1100 block of Fillmore Street when they recognized Mitchell from his outstanding warrant and placed him under arrest," police wrote. Mitchell was booked into a San Francisco County jail on one count of murder. He remained in custody as of Thursday afternoon with no bail, inmate records show.

SJ Mayor to announce proposed catalytic converter theft ordinance

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

(BCN) -- San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and city councilmembers David Cohen and Pam Foley on Thursday morning will discuss their proposal for a new ordinance that, if passed, would allow law-enforcement to charge those in unlawful possession of unmarked catalytic converters. Ex-pilot Joseph Emerson released from jail, allowed to return home to Bay Area They said in a statement that current laws only allow authorities to charge suspects if the seized converter has an identifier attached, which they say is often removed by thieves before selling them. The announcement will be made at 10:45 a.m. in the mayor's conference room on the 18th floor of San Jose City Hall, at 200 E. Santa Clara St., Santa Clara. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Stock market today: Wall Street rises ahead of a highly anticipated jobs report

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Thursday following its first three-day losing streak since Halloween.The S&P 500 was 0.7% higher in late trading and continuing to hang near its highest level since March 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 62 points, or 0.2%, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.2% higher.Big Tech stocks helped power the market higher, led by a 5.5% jump for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. They’re Wall Street’s most influential stocks because of their massive size, and they have been on huge tears so far this year. Cerevel Therapeutics also jumped 10.8% after AbbVie announced an $8.7 billion deal to buy the company and its pipeline of candidates for schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and other diseases. AbbVie added 0.9%.Much of Wall Street’s recent rally has been because of rising hopes that the Federal Reserve is finally done with its barrage of hikes to interest rates, which are meant to get high inflation unde...

US Soccer Federation to built training center in Fayetteville, Georgia, outside Atlanta

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s new training center will be built in Fayetteville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta about a 30-mile drive from downtown Atlanta.The USSF announced the specific site adjacent to Trilith Studios on Thursday after saying on Sept. 15 it intended to construct a complex in the Atlanta area. Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United owner Arthur Blank is contributing $50 million for the project. The complex will be more than 200 acres.The USSF said in 2002 that the complex in Carson, California, would serve as its national training center. While that has been used often for winter training camps, the men’s national team has located training ahead of games at sites more convenient for its matches, such as in Florida ahead of games in the Caribbean and Central America and near the venues of home games. U.S. Soccer also opened a national development center in Kansas City, Kansas, in 2018.The federation’s headquarters was in New York, then moved to Colora...

Jon Rahm on the verge of signing with LIV Golf, according to reports

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:48:24 GMT

Jon Rahm is on the verge of leaving for LIV Golf, a stunning blow to the PGA Tour as it races to try to finalize a commercial agreement with the Saudi Arabian backers of the rival league, according to multiple reports.The Wall Street Journal was the first to report Rahm, the Masters champion, was about to sign a deal that various reports have put anywhere from $300 million to $600 million.LIV Golf is staging a three-day promotions event in Abu Dhabi that starts on Friday.The Journal, along with other outlets, suggested there was still a chance Rahm might change his mind. Sports Illustrated reported he was on his way to New York to finalize the deal. Executives from the PGA Tour and Rahm’s manager did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Rahm’s manager, Jeff Koski at Sportfive, has not responded to phone calls or text messages since social media sites that track LIV Golf began reporting on the rumors few weeks ago. And then The American Express, which Rahm won...