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If Mitt Romney won't tell you about these tax loopholes, we will

Solar panels installed on low-income homes for free as GRID Alternatives comes to Colorado

GRID Alternatives, a California-based nonprofit group that works on renewable energy, is launching a national expansion plan to bring solar panels to homes across the country -- and its first stop is in the Denver metro area, which has a long and complicated history with alternative energy research.

What has the National Renewable Energy Lab done for the public good?

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Aurora's very bad two months and latest snag in Gaylord Entertainment deal

Just two months ago, Aurora was looking at the dawn of a new economic era. The Colorado Economic Development Commission had just recommended the proposed Gaylord Entertainment hotel/resort/convention complex receive $81.4 million from the state'sRegional Tourism Act program, on top of the $300 milli ... More >>

Ken Salazar says feds confident in solar despite Colorado setbacks

Abound Solar has officially gone bankrupt and General Electric PrimeStar is putting on hold a much-anticipated solar panel plant it had planned for Aurora. Both cases are disappointing developments for renewable energy in Colorado -- but Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says these are just mino ... More >>

Update: Seventy layoffs at GE PrimeStar after Aurora plant put on hold

Update: Over the next few months, dozens of General Electric employees in Colorado will face layoffs as part of the company's controversial plan to put a much-anticipated solar manufacturing plant on hold for at least eighteen months. Since news broke last week about GE's plans to delay an Aurora fa ... More >>

A Great! First Date, new local online dating site, is about deeds, not words

Rory O'Rourke thinks traditional dating sites are too static. "You talk about yourself or fill out a bunch of survey questions, and throughout your experience online, you don't change that," says O'Rourke, who works in software. "Everybody says they like to travel but nobody updates their page wit ... More >>

PrimeStar founder Brian Murphy on GE layoffs, Aurora solar plant delay, technological doubts

There are a lot of lingering questions in the local renewable energy industry, and in Aurora, about news that General Electric is laying off employees and putting construction of an Aurora solar plant on hold. Yesterday, we tracked down Brian Murphy, one of the founders of PrimeStar, a Colorado star ... More >>

Fracking: Aurora votes to "lease" water to Anadarko Petroleum

Gaylord Entertainment dumped its plans for a giant hotel/convention center/resort in Aurora, and GE has postponed its big new plant in Aurora -- if not ditched it entirely. But at least Aurora had control over one business deal: It had no problem selling its water to an oil and gas company.

Aurora officials remain optimistic about prospects, despite GE solar plant delay

Things were looking up for Aurora, Colorado.That's how it seemed earlier this year when we wrote about the suburb's new tourism organization, Visit Aurora. Why? Aurora looked sure to land the state tourism incentives it needed to entice Gaylord Entertainment to build a giant hotel there; the city wa ... More >>

Abound Solar bankruptcy: Does it raise concerns about Colorado's energy industry?

News broke yesterday that Abound Solar, a Colorado-based solar panel maker that has struggled for months -- notably with a major round of layoffs in February -- has officially filed for bankruptcy.

Saturday Night Live: The best, worst and most controversial performances

Update: 10:39 a.m. Sunday The Shins were on Saturday Night Live last night night weekend's musical guests. Being invited to be the musical guest on an episode of SNL has been a benchmark of commercial success for any band of the last forty years. And for good reason: From Andy Kaufman annihilating ... More >>

Super Bowl XLVI: Five pop-culture predictions for the coming year

Calender-wise, every year starts at the beginning of January. But when it comes to pop-culture, the year "kicks off" (hey-o!) with the advertising blitz (so many football puns!) that is the Super Bowl, when advertisers collectively spend brajillions of dollars to tell us how to think and feel during ... More >>

Hipp-E and Greg Eversoul: "When we tag-team, it comes out in our sound and in what we do"

Arguably the biggest DJ ever to come out of Denver, Eric Galaviz aka Hipp-E made his bones promoting and deejaying at some of the earliest raves in Colorado. After leaving his indelible mark on our city, he moved to San Diego in the '90s, where he became an influential part of the West Coast house s ... More >>

Aurora wins another powerlifting trophy in redistricting fight

​The world's powerlifting championship is coming to Aurora next year. But this once scrawny suburb has been doing plenty of powerlifting of its own this year, muscling in on the turf of its big brother, Denver. Aurora's most recent trophy? Becoming part of just one congressional district, rath ... More >>

Gallery of the Future could move Union Station into a brave new world

Union Station, 1881​The two groups vying to win the contract to redevelop Union Station are both missing the boat, says one reader. Instead of building off the concepts of the past, they need to look to the future, to the "one-off-thinking of today's youth and young adults."

Occupy Denver considering Occupy Wall Street platform of demands: Read the rough draft

Occupy Wall Street has been taking flak for being vague about its mission and not having a concrete platform. But the growing protest in New York is currently working on a document that will outline the organization's demands. Because the movement is democratic, with no specific leader, the list is ... More >>

Billy Jack's Moral Revolution ruling: $70K judgement despite 100% investment guarantee

"Billy Jack."​Remember Billy Jack? Then you're probably over fifty. The indie flick was an unexpected smash in 1971 -- forty years ago -- spawning several sequels that delivered diminishing returns. But that hasn't stopped director/star Tom Laughlin from trying to milk his primary claim to fam ... More >>

Reader: If serial rapist's boss not liable, why blame Catholic Church for lay minister's abuse?

Chaput.​Melanie Asmar's post about Katia Birge, who claims to have been abused by a lay minister, kicked off a fiery debate about whether or not the Archdiocese of Denver, led by Archbishop Charles Chaput, bears any responsibility for this alleged crime. Among the most passionate items was pen ... More >>

Black out: Lamar gets steamed over a troubled coal plant -- right in the middle of town

Focus on the Family's Broncos game ad campaign -- minus Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow and his mom for FOTF.​Colorado Springs' Focus on the Family made a big splash earlier this year with a pro-life Super Bowl ad starring Tim Tebow and his mom. And while the publicity generated by the spot couldn't prevent 110 layoffs announced earlier this month, Focus learned that th ... More >>

Did the spontaneity-free climate-change rally in Greeley have a Mr. Burns touch?

As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off

When I last talked with Deborah Leebove, daughter of Joyce Foster (the former city councilwoman who is now a state senator), she'd just reached the finals of the third annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off.And now Leebove, pictured here with her entry, elaborates on the experience: "I desperately wa ... More >>

Note to Top Chef: Stop sucking

It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo.  Know why?  Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There w ... More >>

Drop Boards Not Bombs

Llewellyn Werner thinks skateparks could get Iraq's economy rolling

Project Runway, Amadeus and More

Blackburned

Who’s the bigger bully — the smartass attorney who scorched the Denver Fire Department, or the fussbudget judge who threw out the verdict?

Among the Mongols

Steppe by steppe, the hordes are descending on Denver.

Waltz of the Cannibals

How to demolish the telecom industry, in six easy steps.

Cine Bon!

Remembering the films that heated up cinemas this year.

True Lies

The FBI agent who raided Rocky Flats finally sounds off.

The Message

Hard Ball

Stupor Man

Harvey Pekar wears no costume, but he's a comic-book hero nonetheless.

An Either Ore Situation

Titanium, the king of metals, scraps for a home in Denver.

Follow That Story

Tears of a Clown

A Matter of Trust

Who paid what to clean up Lowry Landfill? That's confidential.

Where's My Gyrocopter?

Whatever happened to the future?

Send in the Clown

Carl Kabat has a sacred mission that could land him in jail -- and outside the priesthood.

This Old Housing Project

To save East Village, is it necessary to destroy it?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 8.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of March 23

The Sprawful Truth

Overwhelmed by growth, the town of Superior struggles to transform a subdivision into a community.

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