Xcel Energy’s proposal to spend $1.3 billion to convert several of its aging, high-polluting coal plants to natural gas over the next decade in response to a new state law is drawing fire from coal interest and independent gas producers, but it’s a big hit with Colorado citizens interested in…
If you’ve driven near Broadway and 10th Avenue this week, you’ve no doubt noticed the tent village that lines the perimeter of Sports Authority. Yes, the annual SNIAGRAB (that’s “bargains” backward) sales event begins Saturday, and as you might have read earlier in the week on Latest Word, these people…
CSU Rams fans tailgating in advance of Saturday’s Invesco Field game against the CU Buffs should keep their eyes on the sky. Because between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., a plane is scheduled to fly past pulling a banner reading, “CU Sucks! Go Rams!” The plane will be carrying something…
Slight changes to the scheduled attractions at the annual Colorado State Fair in Pueblo could transform the dated farm show into a much needed economy-boosting job fair… Big experience, extreme references and speed résumé would be the three main events at the State Fair Job Fair Olympics. As seen in…
“There’s No Place Like Home for Somali Refugees in Greeley,” a November 2008 feature by ex-Westword staffer Lisa Rab, told the tale of the Somali community in Northern Colorado, and those members who’d lost jobs in what Rab described in a followup post as “a clash over prayer breaks at…
A promising plan to revive the Cuchara Valley ski area in southern Colorado — complete with zip line, tubing hill, a halfpipe for snowboarders and a seventy-room hotel — has folks in Walsenburg and La Veta cautiously optimistic. The caution is understandable given the number of times the scenic but…
In February 2009, Barack Obama showed up at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to sign the $787 billion federal stimulus package. Since then, anyone who has been stuck behind an army of trucks on I-25, delayed by spates of lane closures on I-70 or winced at the infestation…
Tomorrow, members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board are scheduled to travel to Denver to talk about safety recommendations prompted by the investigation into a 2007 accident at Xcel Energy’s Cabin Creek hydroelectric plant, which cost five workers their lives. And they’ll have a powerful audio-visual aid — an animation…
Peter Yesawich, one of the country’s top travel experts, stopped off in Denver yesterday long enough to offer a six-month forecast to a gathering of Visit Denver members. The bad news? Only 35 percent of the people recently polled on “dream destinations” — places in the United States they’ve never…
In late July, Frontier Airlines announced it was discontinuing Denver to Aspen service. Well, never mind. The carrier is continuing the flights — good news to local skiers on a tight schedule, not to mention Frontier’s Colorado staffers, who’ll see this decision, along with the extension of the airline’s DIA…
More than a hundred new state laws go into effect on August 11, dealing with everything from clean energy to so-called “smart” government. But one of the most hard-fought reforms is House Bill 1351, which requires the payday loan industry to cap its annual interest rate at 45 percent. “Any…
Last week, we told you that Lala Vazquez, Carmelo Anthony’s new bride, had put her custom pink Range Rover up for auction on eBay. The fine ride didn’t sell the first time around, so Lala re-listed it — and this time, it’s attracting offers…
Since last November, when Frontier Airlines jobs began moving to Milwaukee and Indianapolis, locals have feared that the new acquisition of Indy’s Republic Airways Holdings would slowly sever its ties to Denver. It’s good news, then, that Frontier has extended its lease at DIA until 2020. Look below to get…
We knew Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez’s NYC wedding was expensive. I mean, they had to pay for a photo booth, so Kim Kardashian could take a picture of her ass. But did it really cost so much that Lala needed to put her pink Range Rover up for sale…
As noted by Penny Parker, the historic Richthofen Castle — built in the late 1800s by the uncle of the Red Baron — has been on sale for four-years plus. That means even before the real estate slump, no one was interested in plunking down $3.9 million (not counting memorabilia)…
Star architect Santiago Calatrava will reveal his plan for the new Fastracks/Westin Hotel/Terminal on Thursday, July 29, 2010. It is only fitting that Denver Manager of Aviation Kim Day will be throwing him a birthday party the night before, as she has consistently held a “let them eat cake” attitude…
“Did you see the woman in a bikini twirling a ‘$5 joints’ sign on Federal?” In the hyper-competitive and growing field of medical marijuana sales, any advantage to catch a potential buyer’s attention is being explored, including catering to the most basic compulsions. And what’s worked for beer, cigarettes, chicken…
The Tim Tebow empire grows by the day. Example? The Tim Tebow Nike Trainer 1.2, a joint production of Nike and EA Sports timed to help hype NCAA Football 11, the latest version of the venerable videogame, which features Tebow on the cover. The design is keyed to the Florida…
The owners of the Westminster Mall — once an epicenter of metro commerce that has suffered in the shadow of the newer, slicker FlatIrons Mall in Broomfield — are suing the city for allegedly damaging the property’s marketability after the city declared it blighted. As the Denver Post reports, Westminster…
That’s the news from Site Selection, a magazine with the corporatey mission of providing “corporate real estate strategy and area economic development.”The Denver-Aurora area ranked third behind San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (1) and and Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro areas as best locations for businesses that implement green initiatives. So what exactly, is “sustainability,” according…
Here’s good news for all those fearing the coming robot apocalypse: SkyNet, the company behind the giant digital billboard at the Colorado Convention Center named for a fictional, computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots, seems to have been terminated…
Almost three months after CenturyTel announced a $22 billion deal to take over Qwest Communications, some of the most important questions about the historic merger remain unanswered — like what happens to all those old phone books, weird equipment, archival collections and other cool bits of telephonic history hidden on…
