A growing number of airline-industry observers have stepped up to suggest that Southwest Airlines’ attempt to purchase Frontier — which, if successful, would spell the end for the Denver carrier, as employees conceded at a protest rally yesterday — indicates that the former knows it can’t defeat the latter in…
At noon today, supporters of Frontier Airlines, the subject of a potential bidding war between Republic Airways Holdings (which would probably preserve the company in some fashion) and Southwest Airlines (likely to swallow it whole), are rallying at Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office. The name given to the protest? “Save the…
Throughout the ongoing economic downturn, the Denver Business Journal has tried to look for upbeat stories to counterbalance the most dismal reports. But one of the latest has a small nugget of compensation built in. “Denver Loses 6,900 Manufacturing Jobs in Five Years” puts its worst news right in the…
It’s not the salty peanuts, the goofy seating arrangements or the even goofier flight attendants that Denverites are thinking about this morning after Southwest Airline’s bid to buy Frontier. No, most of them are thinking about the prices. More specifically, they think they’re going up. I think they might be…
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Betsy Markey is one of Capitol Hill’s 50 most beautiful people. Ummm, huzzah! (Colorado Independent) You know that brewing scandal Face the State wrote involving a Longmont Councilwoman? Yeah, that wasn’t really fair. Or entirely true. (Colorado Pols) Biofuel Plant comes…
Several outlets are reporting that Southwest Airlines is trying to outbid Republic Airways and swoop up Denver’s bankrupt hometown airline, Frontier. From the Associated Press: A court had already approved the sale of Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. to the parent of Republic Airways for $108.8 million, but that deal can…
Frontier Airlines may have gone bankrupt, but at least they did it with style: The above ad, called “Leather Seats,” has nabbed the Denver-based carrier a regional Emmy, according to a release…
A couple weeks back, the Washington Post delivered to the nation an obituary for Niwot-based Crocs, outlining the company’s demise in a story that’s since been reprinted in papers throughout the country. Last year the company lost $185.1 million, slashed roughly 2,000 jobs and scrambled to find money to pay…
We’re not that well educated, our transportation is West Virginia-esque, and you really want that much for that Highlands loft? But Colorado still ranks among the best states to do business in, according to a new study-type thing by CNBC.com. The financial-news channel scored all 50 states in a variety…
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what happens in Denver? It’s too boring to tell stories about anyway. That’s the impression that a Wednesday story in the Wall Street Journal may have left on readers. Headlined “Government Meeting? Stay Away From Fun City,” the article was about how…
The number of Colorado companies executing large numbers of jobs at once is falling, the Denver Business Journal reports this morning, a sign that slightly less sucky times may lie ahead: (T)he number of Colorado workers let go in June’s mass layoffs declined by more than half, to 832 in…
Only in the Bizarro World of Fox News would Michael Karolchyk — the tax-dodging misogynist behind the Anti-Gym — qualify as a reliable expert on anything, let alone the president’s pick for a new surgeon general. But the cable-news channel went ahead and invited him anyway, so he could do…
“Have you ever wondered why you are required by law to keep [dogs] under control, but people are not required to keep their children under control around us?” You have? Well, here’s the answer: Because they’re fucking dogs! Children are people. Dogs are animals. Dogs are not people. It’s an…
Sometimes Westword stories will veer together. Whether through randomness or fate, the act of completely dissimilar topics or profile subjects colliding can either result in beautiful synergy — i.e., marijuana and Chinese food — or in a twisted wreckage of irony and pain. Case in point: Tom “The Troubleshooter” Martino…
Happy Birfday Blinky. Denver’s TV clown turned antiques store owner turned one-man nostalgia machine for anyone who grew up in the Mile High City in the 1960s, 70s and 80s celebrated his 88th birfday on June 30 with a meal at White Fence Farm in Lakewood. The staff there knew…
The Terry Bison Ranch is still the best place to stay when you’re visiting Cheyenne Frontier Days, which began July 18 and continues through July 25. Straddling the Wyoming/Colorado border, the place is a massive working ranch — with bison, camels, llamas, goats and all of your other standard farm…
Our daily roundup of local blog action. Send links here. Remember free national-park weekends? Well, this is one of those weekends. Go forth and frolic. (Colorado Independent) Live from Las Vegas: Denver Stiffs reports from the Nuggets’ summer league. (Denver Stiffs) The end of Crocs? (5280)…
The Denver Business Journal posted this little ditty earlier today, reporting that McDonald’s — a national hamburger chain known for helping our children get super fat for decades — considers Denver one of America’s happiest cities for families. I have absolutely no idea what this means — I can only…
Did Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, insert a provision in a climate-change bill to benefit so-called “green” banks like one he helped found in San Francisco? That’s the charge leveled by an article in the Washington Times. The measure in question, according to the Times, “calls on bank regulators…
Been looking everywhere for realistic representations of the lunar surface? Look no more. Zybek Advanced Products, a Boulder-based firm just chosen for assistance by a University of Colorado-affiliated nonprofit dedicated to promoting space-industry entrepreneurship, has built “a full-scale plasma processing facility… used for manufacturing high-volume glass and mineral materials,” including…
The June 9 Westword feature “Down the Drain” examined how Denver officials are using funds designated for the improvement and maintenance of the city’s storm-water drainage system to pay for various non-storm expenses. The investigation found that more than $80 million dollars in “storm drainage fees” collected from property owners…
Today’s online Wall Street Journal features an unusual story about Denver’s Wells Fargo Center, whose owner, an Australian real-estate investment firm called Macquarie Office Trust, has been trying to peddle it since earlier this year. The piece isn’t about a sale but a possible sale. Sources cited by the Journal…
