During National Small Business Month, Target, DreamSpring put funding bullseye on underrepresented communities in Denver area
Bodies by Perseverance owner Courtney Samuel (DreamSpring.org photo). As May’s National Small Business Month winds down, Minneapolis-based retail giant Target is celebrating year-round “inclusive economic growth by supporting small businesses…
Democratization or ruination? A deep dive on impacts of multi-resort ski passes on ski towns
A massive lift line on a powder day in Vail in 2020 (Reddit photo). Sadly, Mary Bono will always be synonymous with the dangers of skiing. Her globally famous former…
Coalition pushes for faster IRS processing of Covid-related Employee Retention Credit claims
The Internal Revenue Service last week announced it will be speeding up efforts to process thousands of backlogged Employee Retention Credit (ERC) tax claims filed by small businesses that kept workers on…
Utah’s Powder Mountain passes on fully private skiing model, pursues public-private hybrid
Powder Mountain, Utah. VAIL, Colo. — If every single Powder Mountain season-pass-holder (there are only 3,000 of them) showed up to ski on the same day, and the ski area 20 miles…
Grocery finance expert lauds union jobs, price investment promised by Kroger in proposed Albertsons deal
In Colorado’s Western Slope mountain towns, where the cost of living is often as sky-high as the two-mile-high altitude, residents frequently have to work multiple jobs to be able to…
Analyzing the potential impacts of Kroger-Albertsons merger on Colorado’s Western Slope
In the ever-evolving landscape of grocery retail, the potential merger between Kroger, the parent company of City Market, and Albertsons, the parent company of Safeway, stands poised to bring minimal…
Crypto currency advocates in Colorado cautiously eye federal regulatory efforts
Color Taylor Kendal “skeptically optimistic” when it comes to what Forbes Magazine describes as a “storm of crypto legislation” over the summer that’s currently mired in an exceptional level of congressional gridlock but…
Billionaire who kicked off a railroad war says he’s no longer interested in dormant line over Colorado Rockies
MINTURN, Colo. — A billionaire New York developer and Colorado agricultural landowner who launched a full-blown railroad war in his pursuit of Union Pacific’s dormant Tennessee Pass rail line from Pueblo to…
20 years on, Vail still on way to becoming ‘Gore Creek ghost town’
Editor’s note: A version of this story first appeared earlier this week in the Vail Daily as part of its Home Economics series. The front page of the very first issue of the…
Iconic Purina plant celebrates sense of place, pride in north Denver community
There’s a palpable sense of pride when talking to Nestlé Purina engineering manager Tom Rotunno about the north Denver factory where he’s worked for the past two decades – the iconic…
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