Blogs that might be worth reading, collected for your enjoyment. Send links our way. The very scary “Business Community” is pressuring Senator Bennet to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. (Colorado Pols) The Western Slope’s natural-gas boom is about to go bust. (Colorado Independent) Just in case the Nuggets need…
Press releases yesterday announcing Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck’s entry into the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate listed Jack Stansbery, who fronted Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s Colorado campaign, as a contact person. However, the person sending out the e-mail may actually have a higher profile: Monica Owens,…
Today’s a big day for former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio — the day when he must report to the Federal Correctional Institution in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania and begin serving his six-year insider-trading sentence. Last week, we offered Nacchio advice about how to spend his last six weeks of freedom, as well…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard of parkour — the art of moving up, over and around obstacles as fluidly and efficiently as possible. In ever more commercials and movies, parkour practitioners are hurling themselves up walls and over chasms. You may have even seen such…
One week in November 1985, the cover of Westword featured a photo of Boulder native Rick Rosner under the the headline: “Is This the Smartest Man in America?” He was wearing rollerskates and a loincloth, as Patty Calhoun recently remembered, and at the time was making his way as a…
My flight back to DIA last night from an extended Thanksgiving vacation was remarkably stress-free. I was flying United, which always makes me nervous (This is the airline, after all, that once stranded me in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with a $15 meal voucher and a Best Western room with no…
Pay to Play. It’s October, and I keep meaning to bring my kids to a corn maze. But I haven’t so far – what with the economy and all. Anyway, earlier this month, I had to take a last-minute trip to California for a family emergency and encountered a maze…
Woe is the traveler this summer who flies for business or pleasure. As gas prices have gone through the roof, the airlines have responded by taking it out on passengers, raising ticket prices, adding fees for checked bags, canceling routes and charging for food. As a result, Westword decided to…
Woe is the traveler this summer who flies for business or pleasure. As gas prices have gone through the roof, the airlines have responded by taking it out on passengers, raising ticket prices, adding fees for checked bags, canceling routes and charging for food. As a result, Westword decided to…
The airline industry is giving flyers fits this summer as the big carriers raise ticket prices, add fees for checked bags, cancel routes and charge for food. United, American, US Airways, even Denver-based Frontier are making it difficult to sit back, relax and enjoy our summer vacations. Eight years ago,…
United Airlines. It’s the company Denver loves to hate, the one that has caused sky-high stress levels and unhappiness for an untold number of fliers, the company many of us have no choice but to use since it dominates the gates at Denver International Airport. The latest insult? Charging $15…
