Subject: Small Business

• Remembrances of Parking Promises Past

  September 21, 2007

• Party On, Dude

  January 24, 2007

• Hot Potatoes!

  Some farmers in the San Luis Valley were just waiting to be picked.

  March 2, 2000

• You Gotta Have Art

  Ninth Annual Salida Art Walk

  June 14, 2001

• Win a holiday party at Loews Denver Hotel

  If your company has canceled its holiday party because of the economy, there's still hope! Loews Denver Hotel will be giving away a full holiday party to a local small business. To enter, a business manager must create a DVD or YouTube video explaining why his or her company should win, and do it fast -- the deadline is Friday, November 28. For full details, go to www.loewshotels.com/partyon.

  November 25, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Let it snow, let it snow...

  Cocktail party conversation isn't easy this holiday season -- if anyone's holding cocktail parties, that is. Two safe topics: the Broncos (since the team's still winning) and the weather -- which is as Colorado-wacky as ever. A beautiful weekend, then snow today; record highs last Tuesday, record lows on Thursday. And spirits only got lower on December 4 with the announcement that the Rocky Mountain News is for sale -- putting hundreds of jobs in limbo. Then came Friday's grim news of a

  December 8, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, December 15-21

  While the Obama cabinet carousel -- Ritter! Salazar (Ken)! Salazar (John)! Michael Bennet! Salazar (Ken, again)! -- continues to go 'round, with a name thrown out each week (although now, with Ken Salazar back in the ring for Interior, we're on repeats) -- Colorado's top Dems will gather at the Governor's Office to help make Obama's win official, as the state's nine presidential electors cast their ballots. Then it's back to business -- or the lack thereof, which will become more co

  December 15, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  June 8, 2000

• Best bright idea downtown

  June 29, 2000

• Off Limits

  February 15, 2001

• Best Craft Show

  March 29, 2001

• Check, Please!

  August 23, 2001

• Check, Please!

  January 3, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  February 14, 2002

• Best Boulder Shopping Deal

  April 4, 2002

• Best Place to Spot a Chick

  April 4, 2002

• Bite Me

  July 25, 2002

• The latest thank-you for Rocky Mountain News employees: a free massage

  All the Rocky Mountain News had to do was spend a couple of months teetering on the edge of oblivion to find out how many people in the community care about it. On the day after last Thursday's well-attended candlelight "migil," an anonymous benefactor dished up a midday feed to newsroom staffers -- an act of kindness at the heart of the January 30 blog "Today at the Rocky Mountain News, There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch." Then, yesterday afternoon, staffers were informed that a local busi

  February 4, 2009

• Best Doughnuts -- Chain

  March 24, 2005

• 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 then-CU professor's post-9/11 essay, that Ward Churchill became a household name -- and, in many cases, epithet -- around the country. But there had been concerns raised almost as soon as "Some People P

  March 9, 2009

• Best Slogan for Boulder Shoppers

  March 24, 2005

• Corner Market

  The Mile High Business Alliance helps consumers buy local.

  November 27, 2008

• To Market

  September 7, 2006

• Mama Mia!

  May 3, 2007

• Law and Order

  Take a hint, Starbucks.

  September 14, 2006

• Top of the Town

  Kersten Hostetter has the Midas touch for Denver businesses.

  August 31, 2006

• Creative Thinking

  Denver gets down to business about the arts.

  July 21, 2005

• 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.

  October 21, 2004

• Cutting Edge

  A plan by some Colorado leaders to trim hard-won health-insurance benefits could leave consumers feeling the pain.

  February 14, 2002

• Paying the Price

  Major gas companies are driving away independent operators, all in the name of greed.

  November 9, 2000

• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!

  How Denver’s Hispanic community lost a cable-TV channel but gained a “heritage center.” Maybe.

  March 30, 2000

• Movin' On Up

  The city takes a wild ride on the Colfax Center Deli's wheelchair ramp.

  September 2, 1999

• Socket to Me

  If Colorado deregulates electricity, Californians will be first in line for the state's cheap power--and Coloradans may get fried.

  December 11, 1997

• It Takes a Greek Town

  The plan to revive East Colfax: belly dancers, bazouki music, baklava--and blue sidewalks.

  July 31, 1997

• Off Limits

  May 8, 1997

• Here's a Hot Little Number

  US West customers in Louisville and Lafayette reach out and touch...someone.

  May 9, 1996

• Prize and Prejudice

  The state wants to study "disparity" in awarding contracts to minority- and female-owned businesses.

  February 22, 1996

• JOUST FRIENDS

  November 15, 1995

• A STREETCAR NAMED WYNKOOP

  RTD AND LODO FEUD OVER EXTENDING THE MALL SHUTTLE.

  October 11, 1995

• UNHEALTHY COMPETITION

  TWO SMALL TOWNS. TWO COSTLY HOSPITALS. ONE NASTY FEUD.LITTLE HASSLE ON THE PRAIRIE SANE HEALTH CARE IS THE LATEST LOSS IN THE AGE-OLD RIFT BETWEEN BRUSH AND FORT MORGAN.

  July 13, 1994

• What's cooking? Events at cooking schools

  What's cooking? Mise en Place Cooking School, at 1801 Wynkoop Street #175, is hosting the kick off of LiveWell Colorado's five-year plan to end obesity in Colorado today. At 9:30 a.m., Dr. Collins, the "Cooking Cardiologist," will offer a cooking demonstration, followed by speakers at 10 a.m. For more information, go to www.livewellcolorado.org. And this evening, the Culinary School of the Rockies, 637 South Broadway in Boulder, is hosting a free open house from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Meet the che

  May 7, 2009

• Stripping down strip clubs

  Yes, mom-and-pop places are suffering in today's economy -- but so are strip clubs! According to a story by former Denver Post writer Kris Hudson in today's Wall Street Journal, the country's two publicly traded strip-club chains have been hit hard by the recession, and are now "catering to a thriftier clientele." One of those chains, VCG Holding Corp., is considering paring amenities at some of its clubs in Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; St. Louis and Denver, where the company is based. Its c

  June 11, 2009

• When life gives you pine beetles, make picture frames

  Photo courtesy of Rich DziombaPicture frames made of beetle-killed pine trees in the BKTA showroom. The problem is a familiar one to Colorado residents by now: two million acres of dead trees, forested mountainsides turned entirely red. The high country has been turned into a giant tinderbox by a beetle the size of a grain of rice. The solution? Not to stop the pine beetle. There's no way to prevent the epidemic from killing off the entire population of lodge pole pines in Colorado within fiv

  June 18, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Who are you, Congressman Polis?

  ​ Your daily recommended dose of blog. Send us links. Is Jared Polis a crony for his rich friends? (Colorado Pols) Or simply trying to help small businesses? (Square State) Tax-cutting petitions circulating. (Face the State)

  July 27, 2009

• So that's why Polis has been so ballsy on health care: He's been making it rain on the Hill

  "I got money in the bank/Shorty what you drink?"​House Democrats are playing nice again, and moving closer to finding compromise on a stripped down version of the president's health-care plan. And wouldn't you know it, just days after irking upperclassmen with his very-un-freshman-like stance on the bill, Rep. Jared Polis (D-A Big Pile of Money) showed up on the Denver Post Op-Ed page this morning urging support for the president's plan: I am happy to say that significant progress has be

  July 30, 2009

• Colfax, South Pearl host street festivals today

  At 11 a.m. today, the first Local Flavor Fest kicks off on Colfax Avenue, right by the Lowenstein Complex that houses the Tattered Cover, Twist & Shout and Encore restaurant. The festival, which will run until 4 p.m., celebrates local businesses, and features a raffle, food booths, vendors, book-signings and music. From noon until 10 p.m., the 1200 block of Old South Pearl Street is the site of the Brew Grass festival, with plenty of bluegrass music and beer, of course. For more information, go

  August 8, 2009

• 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. House. An internal memo apparently written by API president Jack Gerard that was recently obtained by Greenpeace spells out the planning process behind the events in great detail. Read that e-mail, a

  August 28, 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 were rolling from the moment Bennet got out of his car. What a difference a weekend makes. On Saturday, news had leaked that Bennet, appointed to fill Ken Salazar's seat back in January, might face a ch

  September 1, 2009

• Jane Norton for Senate: The next great GOP hope

  Jane Norton.​Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee registered a couple of domain names on behalf of former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton -- and today, Norton's using one of them, JaneNortonForColorado.com. Up-front: A news item that declares, "Jane Norton officially filed the Jane Norton for Colorado campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission. The committee will allow Norton the opportunity to explore a bid for the United States Senate in 2010." A

  September 9, 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 staff. White, who previously served as manager in the Department of Human Services before taking an executive director position with the Timothy and Bernadette Marquez Foundation last year, replaces K

  September 11, 2009