{"id":70,"date":"2008-11-18T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/colorado-springs-2paper-town.html"},"modified":"2008-11-18T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:03:08","slug":"colorado-springs-2paper-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2008\/11\/colorado-springs-2paper-town.html","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Springs, 2-paper town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tale of two ledes: Focus on the Family just announced a layoff of 20% of its workforce&#8211;big news here in Colorado Springs, where the ministry is one of the ten largest employers.\u00a0Here&#8217;s how our daily paper, the Gazette, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/focus_43586___article.html\/lays_eliminationg.html\">reported the news<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The ministry laid off 149 workers, and cut another 53 vacant positions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">And <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoindependent.com\/15287\/after-pumping-money-into-prop-8-focus-on-the-family-announcing-layoffs\">here&#8217;s the lede from the Independent<\/a>, our alternative weekly:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px\">Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px\">It&#8217;s not the altitude that makes it hard to breathe here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tale of two ledes: Focus on the Family just announced a layoff of 20% of its workforce&#8211;big news here in Colorado Springs, where the ministry is one of the ten largest employers.\u00a0Here&#8217;s how our daily paper, the Gazette, reported the news:\u00a0 Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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