As we noted in a blog yesterday about Frontier Airlines’ wacky new ad (in which a cougar asks, “Who wouldn’t like five more inches?”), Republic Airways Holdings is in the process of deciding if it should change the name of its recent acquisition. Frontier pilot Janet Vaughn-Elliott says “no” –…
Right now, Republic Airways Holdings is deciding whether to rename recent acquisition Frontier Airlines — a decision that could be announced as soon as early April. If that move is made, it almost certainly means the end of Frontier’s animal mascots, who’ve enlivened the company’s commercials for years. But if…
Denver has more than three blogs. But you’ve got to start somewhere. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco measures Kyle Orton against Brady Quinn in categories that pertain to on-the-field play, like touchdown-versus-interception ratio, and off-the-field stats like “Physique:” Quinn is listed as “ripped,” while Orton is said to be “sometimes covered…
Assurant Health, the country’s oldest provider of individual health insurance policies, has had a few public relations problems lately. In addition to the debate over such companies making hundreds of millions in profits by canceling or rescinding health coverage for sick people and the grilling of CEO Don Hamm by…
In September 2008, we told you about the impending debut of Colorado’s first IKEA — a plan whose roots stretched all the way back to 2004. The latest? The company has issued a press release confirming that contractors have been hired with an eye toward opening an outlet in Centennial…
As documented in Melanie Asmar’s December feature “Can a Mild-Mannered Grocery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers’ Labor Strife?,” United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 has been rocked by a power struggle between supporters of previous president Ernie Duran and those backing incoming boss Kim Cordova. The latest salvo in…
The identity of Frontier is, well, up in the air, with a new name among the possibilities. But Frontier mechanics seem more interested in the amount of their paychecks rather than the moniker stamped on it — which is why, late yesterday, the union representing them filed an injunction in…
Read some Denver blogs, why don’t you? Mike at Mile High Hockey is in rare form commenting about the Avs agonizing collapse against Vancouver last night. “Why are they playing this way in big games?” he asks. “It’s like my right hand on a Saturday night: It beats the fuck…
In yesterday’s blog about Governor Bill Ritter’s displeasure at Amazon over the company’s decision to sever relationships with its Colorado associates over a new tax measure, we noted that Amazon hadn’t responded to requests for comment. Several hours after the piece’s publication, Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako belatedly reached out –…
Governor Bill Ritter may still be mending from his recent bicycle spill, but he’s clearly in fighting trim judging by his feisty response to news that Amazon has closed the accounts of its associates in Colorado in retaliation for a newly enacted tax measure that impacts online retailers based out…
Last night, around a hundred people crammed into Forest Room 5 for the funeral of Internet Explorer 6, which reportedly died during a workplace accident at Google Inc. The biggest surprise, according to Jon Clark, business development director for Aten Design Group, which planned the memorial? “The Internet Explorer team…
Denver lost Hysteria — its women-friendly, sex-positive, non-toxic-educating, GLBT-welcoming sex-toy shop in February. But a new store with the same philosophy, albeit from Minnesota, plans to open soon, just in time to fill that void. The Smitten Kitten pioneered the idea of brightly-lit, women-friendly sex shops seven years ago, says…
After the Rocky Mountain News closed a year ago, the Denver Daily News published a headline reading “We’re a 2-Daily Town.” It was the scrappy publication’s way of saying to the Denver Post, “Don’t forget about us.” Not that such a thing would be possible given the News’ recent reportage…
Toyota continues to put out advertisements intended to make up for their bad batches of cars. But the company’s efforts appear to be doing little to slow the stream of angry Toyota owners, especially around here. Case in point: Wayne Harris of Aspen filed a class-action lawsuit against the company…
Last week, we noted that the Colorado Rail Passenger Association didn’t like the fact that the new-and-improved Union Station was finally starting to be built, since the advocacy group is still awaiting the results of a lawsuit they filed last May that demanded officials consider at other permutations for the…
Here come three Denver blogs, in no particular order. Mile High Report’s John Bena is amazed by the attention being paid to Tim Tebow, who’s unlikely to be drafted anywhere near the first round. Nonetheless, ESPN’s Bill Williamson suggests that there’s a medium possibility of him becoming a Bronco. At…
On Friday, we shared a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noting customer surveys implying that Denver’s Frontier Airlines could be renamed New Air — one of the lamest monikers in the history of lame monikers. Turns out that’s not the case: Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk says the New Air…
Late last week, PepsiCo announced that it was dropping its Gatorade endorsement deal with Tiger Woods, whose apology for nailing pretty much every trollop he laid eyes on didn’t immediately heal his besmirched public image. If only the powers at Pepsi had accepted a proposal from Longmont artist Jason Kay,…
In January, Frontier Airlines spokesman Peter Kowalchuk insisted that Frontier would still be Denver’s hometown airline despite most of its executives being shipped to Indianapolis, home base for its new parent company, Republic Airways Holdings. But would that still be the case if it was no longer called Frontier? And…
Earlier this month, Safeway and King Soopers workers ratified a new contract — most of them, anyhow. But a vote last night by Safeway meat workers in Salida finally put a period on nearly a year’s wroth of bickering and strike threats. Now, as noted on the United Food and…
It’s the start of the decade, and that means the U.S. Census Bureau is posting fliers everywhere, looking for temporary, part-time help to ring doorbells and glean data. Pay starts at $16.25 an hour in Denver, considerably less in Grand Junction ($12.50) and Pueblo ($11.00). You’d think in this economy,…
Colorado’s medical marijuana industry has been compared to the Gold Rush of 150 years ago, but so far, there’s been no rush for dispensaries to get legal in Denver. Under Council Bill 34, a dispensary must have a city sales-tax license and also apply for a specific dispensary license by…
