My last column.(on MANAGEMENT)(Column)
Somebody asked me what I would write about if this were my last
column.
This is what it might be.
I will want to make the point that despite the likes of Eliot
Spitzer, Bill Clinton, Joe . . .
New day dawning for Sun.(COTE'S colorado)
Kristin Russell couldn't be a better cheerleader for Sun
Microsystems. The vice president of IT operations at the company's
Broomfield campus evokes the kind of evangelist aura that only comes
from . . .
The sham of the legislative process.(RUNDLES
wrap-up)(Editorial)
I have made it well known over the years how much contempt I have
for the Colorado General Assembly, aka the state Legislature. This
isn't about being anti-Republican or anti-Democrat; I'm . . .
Suite surrender.(SPORTS biz)
The seats are great, the drinks flow freely, and somewhere down
below there's a good game going on. For mixing business and
pleasure, sports-arena luxury suites have been a go-to play . . .
Extenex.(COLORADO COOL STUFF)(Brief article)
"This is not a shoelace," says Mike Gonzales, inventor of
the Xtenex. "This is a fastening system that will literally wrap
your shoe around your specific foot profile." Gonzales came up with
the . . .
"Piaget" beer gauge.(COLORADO COOL STUFF)(Brief
article)
When it comes to beer, Chris Holloway likes to get his money's
worth. "Because of the taper in a pint glass, it's easy to
under-pour," said Holloway, a scientist at a federal lab in
Boulder. "The . . .
Espo's Gelato.(COLORADO COOL STUFF)(Brief article)
"In 2000, I was in Manhattan doing financial work, completely
bored," said Jennifer Esposito, president and chef behind
Espo's Gelato. "I would cook at night, and I couldn't
find gelato." So she . . .
Earth imagery jewelry.(COLORADO COOL STUFF)
Among other things, Leav Bolender has worked as a wilderness guide,
social worker and middle-school teacher. She took an early retirement
from teaching in June 2006 to focus on her true love: . . .
Company Inviragen Inc.(TECH STARTUP)
INITIAL LIGHT BULB: After working together researching vaccines for
companion animals at Heska Corp. in the 1990s, Drs. Dan Stinchcomb and
Jorge Osorio reconnected in 2005, founding Inviragen, a . . .
Radio show is its own startup story.(SMALL biz)
Rob McNealy is a former tech programmer and project manager who
went back to school for an MBA after being laid off three times in 12
months at the turn of the millennium.
Yet even when he was a . . .
A mile high is a sweet spot for REITs: real estate investment
trusts like to call Denver home.(Q1 REAL ESTATE REPORT)
The Denver metropolitan area is the real estate investment trust
capital of the world. More than that, it is a worldwide real estate
center.
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True?
"People now don't . . .
A lost art: amid student-achievement pressure, Colorado falls to
47th in arts-education funding.
Grinning and kicking as he plays air guitar, 11-year-old
O'Brien Ramirez looks like he's having a heck of a time.
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Onstage with about 30 other students, Ramirez is . . .
16th Annual Colorado Ethics in Business Alliance Awards: good
business practices include community service.(PLANET PROFIT REPORT
Bring up ethics in a conversation about business, and it might stop
at making the right decision, doing the "right thing." But as
the four winners of the 16th annual Colorado Ethics in Business . . .
Coal under fire: Colorado's No. 2 electric provider,
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, faces pressure to
reasse
Last fall, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association had to
face an inconvenient truth: Its proposed coal-fired power plant was
sacrificed in the name of environmentalism.
The directors . . .
'Fair' to the last bean: in the fair-trade coffee
market, small Colorado roasters refine the movement--and their
customers--on t
Tucked deep in a nondescript Boulder office park, Conscious Coffees
looks like your average shop for roasting beans. A sizeable 16-foot bean
roaster dominates the company's main warehouse room, . . .
Tommy Spaulding: up with people CEO helped revive the
nonprofit's global brand.(EXECUTIVE edge)(Up with People)
Tommy Spaulding still bristles when he thinks about his high school
counselor in Suffren, N.Y., who advised him to forget about college and
head to trade school.
The son of two school teachers, . . .
Can't keep love out of the office.(WORKPLACE)(Brief
article)
Even before they first kissed, Nikki Alexander and Marc Harpster
had "the talk" about how they would handle it if their office
romance didn't work out.
"We had a lot of respect for each other, . . .
Tax on carbon emissions would raise funds for renewable projects,
energy audits.(ENVIRONMENT)(Brief article)
An activist group aims to raise $180 million a year in Colorado for
renewable-energy and energy-efficiency projects by charging homeowners
and businesses a fee on carbon dioxide emissions.
Clean . . .
Wray plugs into wind power.(ENERGY)(Brief article)
The Colorado town of Wray, near the Nebraska-Kansas border, planned
a ceremony Feb. 15 with Gov. Bill Ritter on hand to celebrate the
completion of a 335-foot wind turbine. Propelled by winds that . . .
122%.(BY THE NUMBERS)
122%
Household growth in Brighton since 2000. The city was ranked No. 2
by the Gadberry Group as one of the seven most notable high-growth
communities in the U.S. In 2007, the number of . . .
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