Home construction in the Pueblo area reached a nine-year high in 2017.
There were 361 single-family building permits issued last year, according to Pueblo Regional Building Department data.
It was an increase of 42 percent from the prior year (255 permits) and the most since the 394 permits issued in 2008, the second year of the 2007-2009 U.S. housing crash and recession.
A pair of national sponsors, Monster Energy and YETI, will continue the ride with the Professional Bull Riders as the tour opens its 25th season this weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The elite series, which awards its annual champion with a $1 million bonus and gold belt buckle each year, had previously been named the PBR Built Ford Tough Series. Ford remains the official vehicle of the PBR, the tour said.
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Vestas Wind Systems, the Danish wind turbine manufacturer that employs thousands of Coloradans, notched a record-breaking year in 2017, with more than 10,691 megawatts worth of orders from customers around the world.
That beats the 2016 figure of 10,494 megawatts on a global basis, which had been a company record. And the final figure for 2017’s order book is likely to climb even higher.
Vestas said the 10,691 megawatts worth of orders globally, enough to support the power demands of more than 3.2 million U.S. homes, represents orders announced by the company during 2017, as well as previously unannounced orders that were placed in the first nine months of 2017.
FONTANA, Calif. — At a steel factory dwarfed by the adjacent Auto Club Speedway, Fernando Esparza is working toward his next promotion.
Esparza is a 46-year-old mechanic for Evolution Fresh, a subsidiary of Starbucks that makes juices and smoothies. He’s taking a class in industrial computing taught by a community college at a local manufacturing plant in the hope it will bump up his wages.
It’s a pretty safe bet. The skills being taught here are in high demand. That’s in part because so much effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates to go to college for academic degrees rather than for training in industrial and other trades that many fields like his face worker shortages.
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Colorado State University-Pueblo’s undergraduate engineering program was ranked among the nation’s top 75 by U.S. News and World Report, moving up more than 20 spots from last year’s rankings.
The undergraduate rankings include schools that do not offer a doctoral degree in engineering. CSU-Pueblo tied for 74th up from 97th in the 2017 rankings. The U.S. Air Force Academy was the only other Colorado school in this list at No. 5.
U.S. News has separate rankings for undergraduate engineering programs at colleges that offer doctoral degrees in engineering and for engineering programs at colleges where the terminal degree in engineering is a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
The U.S. News rankings of the undergraduate engineering programs accredited by ABET are based on the judgments of deans and senior faculty at peer institutions.
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