Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

Oxford's urinals top our list of alternative Denver tour stops: What tops yours?

Civic boosters love to travel to other cities to see how they do business -- and maybe engage in some monkey business themselves. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce's City-to-City Leadership Exchange (LEX) will make its 24th annual trip in October -- this one to Pittsburgh (last year was Austin). ... More >>

Fracking haters and fans staging separate rallies in Boulder, Denver: What the frack?

With Democrats controlling both houses of the Colorado Legislature, Governor John Hickenlooper should have lots of common ground with lawmakers. But one topic is already creating cracks in any consensus: fracking. Hickenlooper has asked for a single set of state regulations that would govern the sta ... More >>

Build your brain with TEDxMileHigh and the first-ever TEDxYouth@MileHigh

Prepare to be amazed. Prepare to be inspired. Prepare, perhaps, to reflect less favorably on your own accomplishments. It's time for TEDxMileHigh, two days of performances and events that start with the first-ever TEDxYouth@MileHigh today from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The main event runs from 1 to 6 p.m ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Francois Safieddine has plans for Ruth's Chris Steakhouse

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The week ahead: Energy discussions and lots of hot air

Delegating Denver #55 of #56: Wisconsin

See and Be Seen at Racines

Road Block!

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.

Same Op-Ed Runs Twice in Saturday Rocky Mountain News

Let the Buyer Beware

Little meth house on the prairie.

Let's See What Develops

City visionaries offer their top moments in Denver design history.

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.

Bite Me

Kinda Blue

Off Limits

The sound and the furry.

The Bare Necessities

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

A Class Act

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

Off Limits

Bitch, bitch, bitch

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Season's greetings

Lights On

Denver gets ready to put on the Ritz.

Off Limits

All's fair

Off Limits

No good deed goes unpunished.

Eye Candy, Western Style

Harmsen Western Art Collection, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

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A Whole New Ballgame

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

Beating the Train

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

Off Limits

OFF LIMITS

REACH FOR THE SKY

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