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Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    National Western Stock Show corrals the Rodeo All-Star Weekend

    Yee-haw! The National Western Stock Show has saddled up for the future. Although NWSS chairman Jerry McMorris passed away yesterday, leaders went through with the announcement of a deal that will help steer the direction of the Stock Show, expanding it beyond an every-January event into more of a ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Gaylord hotel project: Meet the locals in love with it (and one guy against it)

    Frank Gray is president of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council in Douglas County. Yet at a public hearing yesterday on six projects vying for big-bucks state tourism incentives, Gray eschewed his county's own project and, like many of the 23 people who testified, spoke in favor of Gaylord E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Michael Hancock comes out against the paid sick leave ballot initiative

    ​On his thirtieth day in office, Mayor Michael Hancock really got down to business yesterday, outlining a better, faster, stronger city government in a speech at the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce's State of the City Luncheon that included his opposition to Initiative 300, the paid sick leav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Chris Power Bain spoke for Denver

    Chris Power Bain.​Memorial Day is still three days away, but all week I have been carried away by memories. The extended Westword family lost one of its members this week when Chris Power Bain, who'd served as advertising manager in the early '80s, passed away. There's much more to her story ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Jeff Peckman: A Denver mayor's race profile

    Jeff Peckman.​With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Jeff Peckman. "I have spent my whole life tryin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Carol Boigon: A Denver mayor's race profile

    Carol Boigon.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Carol Boigon. "I'm a person who never ... More >>

  • Music

    December 16, 2010

    Francois Safieddine has plans for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse

    Carol Boigon.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Carol Boigon. "I'm a person who never ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Lotus Concepts to expand club empire

    ​Francois Safieddine has done well with clubs like Suite Two Hundred, 24K, Oak Tavern and 5 Degrees, and he'll soon be expanding his club empire. Safieddine recently signed a multi-million dollar lease for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse at 1445 Market Street in a building owned by the Denver Metro C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Amendments 60 & 61, Proposition 101: Is $6 million not enough to defeat them?

    Douglas Bruce​Opponents of three tax-slashing ballot initiatives say their polling shows that the measures might actually be approved by voters -- despite a multi-million-dollar ad blitz starting this weekend designed to crush them. Coloradans for Responsible Reform recently spent $250,000 on ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2010

    Letters: Westword readers think Backbeat got jobbed and request a new Chef & Tell question

    Douglas Bruce​Opponents of three tax-slashing ballot initiatives say their polling shows that the measures might actually be approved by voters -- despite a multi-million-dollar ad blitz starting this weekend designed to crush them. Coloradans for Responsible Reform recently spent $250,000 on ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    Signed, sealed and rejected: These political activists are rabble with a cause

    Douglas Bruce​Opponents of three tax-slashing ballot initiatives say their polling shows that the measures might actually be approved by voters -- despite a multi-million-dollar ad blitz starting this weekend designed to crush them. Coloradans for Responsible Reform recently spent $250,000 on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    DIA hotel project delayed -- again

    DIA today: many teepees but no reservations. ​ Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Wake-Up Call: Bill Ritter's job push

    ​Governor Bill Ritter hosted more than thirty business leaders at the Governor's Mansion yesterday for a roundtable discussion of one of his major priorities for 2010: job creation. But Ritter had already given job creation a major push the day before, when his official announcement that he w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Is the Denver Chamber of Commerce getting into the bar business?

    New Chamber head Kelly Brough​The Denver Department of Excise and License has received an application to transfer ownership of a liquor license at 1445 Market Street in LoDo. That's the old home of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse -- but it's also the building that houses the Metro Denver Chamber of Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Roxane White is Hickenlooper's new chief of staff

    Roxane White.​Roxane White knows a little something about the power of prayer, having graduated with a degree in religious studies from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon back in 1985 -- and she'll need all the faith she can get in her new job, as Mayor John Hickenlooper's new chief of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Senator Bennet rolls up his sleeves

    ​Business boosters at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce didn't know what had hit them. On Friday, when Senator Mark Udall offered a healthcare briefing at the Chamber, there hadn't been a single member of the media. But on Monday, when Senator Michael Bennet did the same, the TV cameras wer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Romanoff on the range

    ​"What's he doing in the Senate?" "Why, it's an honorary appointment. He's an honorary stooge." Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM yesterday afternoon -- just the thing to warm up the set (and the sofa) before Jake Cutler returned to Mile High, particularly given a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Denver Post's bizarre Bill Owens "clarification"

    Bill Owens.​It was a correction of a kind, albeit a notably nutty one that says more about the power of the person making the request than it does about the original item.... On Sunday, the Denver Post published a profile of Kelly Brough, the former chief of staff for Denver Mayor John Hicken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Chamber plot

    ​On Friday, Kelly Brough, Mayor John Hickenlooper's chief of staff, was named the next head of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce -- the winner in a horse race with Tom Clark, the chamber's eco-devo head. On Saturday, I ran into Brough at a concert in Civic Center and asked when she'd be lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated

    A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: All over but the shouting

    The last bill of the legislative session has been signed, and it's all over but the shouting -- particularly in front-page stories over the governor's vetoes of union-friendly bills (and likely when the governor is on Mike Rosen's show at 9:15 a.m.). But Bill Ritter also managed to please at least ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    The Week Ahead: A threepeat for East

    Yes, the Nuggets are advancing, but Colorado can already claim a real winning team: the East High Constitutional Scholars, who just won the We the People contest in Washington, D.C. -- for the third year running. The high schoolers are already preparing to make it four in a row, but should be avai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Churchill loses a job, kids look for them

    When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    The week ahead: Energy discussions and lots of hot air

    When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Delegating Denver #55 of #56: Wisconsin

    When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    See and Be Seen at Racines

    When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2008

    Road Block!

    When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Beer Town Abuzz with Coors-Miller Merger

    There may be something in Rocky Mountain spring water, but Milwaukee is already buzzing about the future headquarters for Miller and Coors.

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2007

    Same Op-Ed Runs Twice in Saturday Rocky Mountain News

    There may be something in Rocky Mountain spring water, but Milwaukee is already buzzing about the future headquarters for Miller and Coors.

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Let the Buyer Beware

    Little meth house on the prairie.

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Let's See What Develops

    City visionaries offer their top moments in Denver design history.

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    The Alternative Voter’s Guide

    The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

  • Dining

    May 13, 2004

    Bite Me

    Kinda Blue

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Off Limits

    The sound and the furry.

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    The Bare Necessities

    There are a million slogans in the naked city. We don't need any of them.

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    A Class Act

    When it came time to elect a mayor, Denver got creative.

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Off Limits

    Bitch, bitch, bitch

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Off Limits

    Season's greetings

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    Lights On

    Denver gets ready to put on the Ritz.

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Off Limits

    All's fair

  • News

    February 15, 2001

    Off Limits

    No good deed goes unpunished.

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2000

    Eye Candy, Western Style

    Harmsen Western Art Collection, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    A Game of Chance

    In Monopoly, the player with the hotel usually cashes in.

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Off Limits

    In Monopoly, the player with the hotel usually cashes in.

  • News

    February 19, 1998

    A Whole New Ballgame

    The man who drove a stake through Guide the Ride may take aim next at Pat Bowlen's stadium tax.

  • News

    October 23, 1997

    Spinning Their Wheels

    A guide to surviving the light-rail info war

  • News

    July 24, 1997

    Beating the Train

    Light-rail opponents plot ways to jump the tracks--with an RTD boardmember leading the charge.

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    Off Limits

    Light-rail opponents plot ways to jump the tracks--with an RTD boardmember leading the charge.

  • News

    October 5, 1994

    OFF LIMITS

    Light-rail opponents plot ways to jump the tracks--with an RTD boardmember leading the charge.

  • News

    September 28, 1994

    REACH FOR THE SKY

    THE DIZZYING HEIGHTS OF MARKAIR'S SECRET "ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT PLAN."

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