Citing Boulder’s mishmash of granola-eating tree-huggers and a flourishing entrepreneurial landscape intersected by academe and technology, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has rated the city among the most promising for the next decade. Here’s how “Best Cities 2010” describes the community, which ranks in the fourth position, behind Austin, Seattle and Washington…
Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. But Yahoo!’s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings. Associated Content founder (and newly minted Yahoo! vice president) Luke Beatty reveals that Yahoo! will be opening a…
Amid the white-hot debates raging over Arizona’s new immigration law, it’s harder than ever to separate the spluttering from the substance when it comes to immigration policy. Especially if you’re trying to make sense of the über-patriotic sentiments found online at Wehirealiens.com. A project of the Federal Immigration Reform and…
When most observers consider Denver’s most powerful websites, they frequently overlook Associated Content — and that’s a mistake. The project, which got its start in former Westword profile subject Luke Beatty’s basement circa 2004, has a simple concept: AC pays contributors fees for content based on how many people look…
A Brighton industrial cleaning company is suing the City and County of Denver and its Department of Aviation, which oversees operations at Denver International Airport, citing racial discrimination and soliciting of bribes for preferential treatments in contracted work by officials. Allstate Sweeping, which filed the federal civil suit earlier this…
Yesterday, we told you about the literal countdown to the IKEA groundbreaking ceremony, set for 11 a.m. today. Look below to see a graphic of the site and an IKEA release featuring more details. Unfortunately, the event isn’t open to the public. But according to Sherry Patten, community-affairs specialist for…
In March, IKEA formally announced that its first Colorado store would open in the fall of 2011. But another deadline is much closer, and IKEA fans are counting down the seconds — literally. A blogspot for Colorado IKEA fans has two separate countdown clocks. One ticks away the time before…
The merger of United and Continental is potentially blockbuster news, admits Ken Kyle, local counsel president for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA — but only potentially. Kyle points out that mergers of this size don’t happen overnight and don’t always hold together. Moreover, he stresses that today’s announcement “does not…
Last week, we noted the big-selling status of Tim Tebow jerseys — as well as one man’s idea to create them for half-price by slapping a new name on heavily discounted Brandon Marshall shirts. Days later, a visit to a Champs Sports outlet at Southwest Plaza Mall proved that the…
“Mike and I thought we did the good deed of the day,” says Paul Shoemaker — and why wouldn’t he? After all, Shoemaker and Mike McGee, co-workers at a Sprint outlet at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, were heading on break when they heard a cry for help from an…
Yesterday’s acquisition of Qwest by CenturyTel may enrich the likes of Phil Anschutz, but it’s raised concerns among politicos such as Governor Bill Ritter and senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, who fear a loss of jobs once the headquarters moves from Denver to Monroe, Louisiana. But could there also…
As we told you earlier today, Qwest is being acquired by CenturyTel in a $10.6 billion stock swap. We don’t know the repercussions yet, and won’t for a while. But they’ll undoubtedly be significant in light of the fact that the combined company’s headquarters will be located at CenturyTel’s home…
Qwest, the Denver-based company founded in 1966 by Phil Anschutz, is being acquired by CenturyTel in a deal that involves the swap of $10.6 billion in stock. The impact of this mega-merger on Denver’s economy will be the subject of much debate in the coming days. As for Anschutz, he’s…
It’s not likely that officials at All Nippon Airways would forget that the folks at Denver International Airport dearly want to make a deal for a nonstop flight to Tokyo; DIA’s been chasing that brass ring for a decade. But that didn’t stop a few locals from flying to Japan…
Last month, a Today Show investigation revealed a shocking fact: Major retailers like Victoria’s Secret and Macy’s were re-selling underwear that customers — or rather, Today show operatives wearing hidden cameras — had returned. Even after the Today folks stained said panties with baby oil, they ended up back on…
Stan Kroenke owns 40 percent of the St. Louis Rams football team — and he reportedly is interested in purchasing the remaining 60 percent. How might such a buy impact Kroenke’s Denver sports franchises — the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche? Kroenke isn’t getting into specifics, but his company,…
The parent company of Denver-based Frontier Airlines announced today it is abandoning the Milwaukee-based Midwest Airlines brand to unify the two carriers under the Frontier name, ending months of speculation and angst among Coloradans who hoped the moniker would survive. Before hundreds of Frontier employees gathered in Coors Field party…
The suspense is finally over regarding Frontier Airlines. Frontier’s owner, Republic Airways Holdings, has announced that the new name of the carrier, which is being combined with sister airline Midwest, will be… Frontier. Oh yeah: The airline will soon start serving Midwest’s trademark chocolate-chip cookies. Sounds like a delicious compromise…
Look! Blogs about Denver! Over here! In his account of the Denver’s dispiriting loss to San Antonio, Roundball Mining Company’s Jeremy says the Spurs played “a near-perfect game,” while the Nuggets were “impotent.” It’s the time of year to stand up, not go limp. Those meanies at WhoSaidYouSaid.com kick Senator…
For weeks, there’s been speculation aplenty about whether or not Frontier Airlines, purchased last year by Republic Airways Holdings, will be keeping its name and identity when combined with new sister carrier Midwest Airlines. First, a Milwaukee paper hinted that the combined airlines could be dubbed “New Air” — a…
The blogs of Denver, readable whenever. Mile High Report links to what may be the most elaborate where’s-Brandon-Marshall-going blog to date, in which Ted Bartlett uses algebra to conclude that BM deserves a contract worth $54.6 million over six years. We’ll have to take your word for it. Colorado Pols…
Employees of Frontier who don’t want the airline’s name to change aren’t the only folks in the industry to have rallied lately. Yesterday at Denver International Airports, over a hundred United flight attendants showed up with pickets in hand to protest a contract stalemate that’s lingered for a year. The…
