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Thomas Dawson plays music on the keyboards in his studio at his home in Colorado Springs. “He’s an unbelievably talented and modest person, and his level of talent is almost otherworldly,” Perry Sanders Jr., a local attorney, says of Dawson. Sanders, who is also a musician, adds of Dawson: “He’s my favorite person to do music with.”
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El Paso County Public Health Director Susan Wheelan speaks to the Board of County Commissioners on August 11, 2020, with Dr. Charles Benight, director of the National Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, in the background. Wheelan and Benight presented to the El Paso County Board of County Commissioners on the Greater Resilience Intervention Teams program earlier this month, alongside speakers Mary Ellen Benson and Lori Jarvis-Steinwert (not pictured), who represented program partners AspenPointe and the National Alliance on Mental Illness-Colorado Springs, respectively. (Screenshot courtesy of El Paso County.)
In what some termed a political decision, President Trump chose Huntsville, Alabama, as the permanent home for Space Command on Jan. 13, triggering efforts by officials in Colorado to persuade
Thomas Dawson sits at one of four studios inside his home in Colorado Springs. Dawson is the musical director for the legendary Commodores. He also is the entertainment director at Springs Orleans restaurant in downtown Colorado Springs, where he regularly played piano for the last eight years until the pandemic struck. “I miss the interaction of playing for people at restaurants,” he says.
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Rising apartment rents played a major role in pushing the cost of living in Colorado Springs to tie a 23-year-old record when compared with the national average, according to a new report.
The local cost of living was 104% of the national average in the fourth quarter, up from 103.6% in the third quarter and tying the record reached in the second quarter of 1997, according to the Council for Community and Economic Research. The council normally releases an annual average index early in the following year, rather than a fourth-quarter calculation, so no data is available for the fourth quarter of 2019. The council plans to release its annual average late next month.