Exxon-Mobil had a bad day in court in Denver yesterday. The firm pleaded guilty to killing migratory birds in five states, including Colorado. The size of the fine and community-service payments Exxon-Mobil has agreed to pony up — $600,000 — is, to use an avian reference, chicken feed given the…
Moments ago, Southwest Airlines released a statement about what everyone else had already figured out — that Southwest’s massive bid for Frontier Airlines had fallen apart at the last minute over an inability to get Frontier pilots to concede on seniority-oriented contract issues. In the document, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly,…
This morning, National Public Radio featured a story on Patient Central, a new website that conducts surveys to rank the top doctors in a given area, as well as those who earned the ire of respondents. At this point, the site focuses on three metro areas: greater Memphis, greater Kansas…
On Wednesday, we pointed out that in contrast to the actions of Southwest Airlines, which energetically hyped its bid for Frontier Airlines, Republic Airways Holdings, the first suitor to step forward, was laying low. Turns out Republic held a trump card: contract negotiations with Frontier pilots. Southwest had publicly stated…
… Or a personal-injury lawyer, or a stripper, or the doer of some other job that paid me lots of money and required me to live in an audacious downtown loft. The point is, there are lots of vacant apartments around town, according to a story this week in the…
Today’s supposed to be the day when an auction for Frontier Airlines gets underway, with most observers expecting that Southwest Airlines would walk away with the Denver-based carrier. Moments ago, however, Reuters reported that negotiations between Southwest and Frontier pilots, which were supposed to be completed by last night, apparently…
Tomorrow’s the day when Frontier Airlines hits the auction block, and in recent days, Southwest Airlines, one of two publicly announced suitors, has gotten the vast majority of attention due to the size of its bid: $170 million, nearly $60 million more than the first total it floated. Moreover, Southwest’s…
Does cannabis contain the magic ingredient that will keep swine flu from sweeping the planet? A Colorado Springs company has (yes, you knew it was coming) high hopes. Cannabis Science, Inc. is announcing today that it’s “made key progress with mapping out its initial cannabis drug medicines for FDA clinical…
With yesterday’s promise of a $170 million bid for Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines made it clear it really, really wants the Denver-based carrier. After all, the total was nearly $60 million more than its previously announced offer of $113 million, which was already higher than the $108 million total pledged…
An increasing number of aviation-industry experts believe that Southwest Airlines’ interest in obtaining Denver-based Frontier is motivated by the desire to eliminate a competitor that’s kicking its ass, at least here. And that theory has just gotten a boost via the size of Southwest’s bid for the carrier, which was…
A growing number of airline-industry observers have stepped up to suggest that Southwest Airlines’ attempt to purchase Frontier — which, if successful, would spell the end for the Denver carrier, as employees conceded at a protest rally yesterday — indicates that the former knows it can’t defeat the latter in…
At noon today, supporters of Frontier Airlines, the subject of a potential bidding war between Republic Airways Holdings (which would probably preserve the company in some fashion) and Southwest Airlines (likely to swallow it whole), are rallying at Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office. The name given to the protest? “Save the…
Throughout the ongoing economic downturn, the Denver Business Journal has tried to look for upbeat stories to counterbalance the most dismal reports. But one of the latest has a small nugget of compensation built in. “Denver Loses 6,900 Manufacturing Jobs in Five Years” puts its worst news right in the…
It’s not the salty peanuts, the goofy seating arrangements or the even goofier flight attendants that Denverites are thinking about this morning after Southwest Airline’s bid to buy Frontier. No, most of them are thinking about the prices. More specifically, they think they’re going up. I think they might be…
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Betsy Markey is one of Capitol Hill’s 50 most beautiful people. Ummm, huzzah! (Colorado Independent) You know that brewing scandal Face the State wrote involving a Longmont Councilwoman? Yeah, that wasn’t really fair. Or entirely true. (Colorado Pols) Biofuel Plant comes…
Several outlets are reporting that Southwest Airlines is trying to outbid Republic Airways and swoop up Denver’s bankrupt hometown airline, Frontier. From the Associated Press: A court had already approved the sale of Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. to the parent of Republic Airways for $108.8 million, but that deal can…
Frontier Airlines may have gone bankrupt, but at least they did it with style: The above ad, called “Leather Seats,” has nabbed the Denver-based carrier a regional Emmy, according to a release…
A couple weeks back, the Washington Post delivered to the nation an obituary for Niwot-based Crocs, outlining the company’s demise in a story that’s since been reprinted in papers throughout the country. Last year the company lost $185.1 million, slashed roughly 2,000 jobs and scrambled to find money to pay…
We’re not that well educated, our transportation is West Virginia-esque, and you really want that much for that Highlands loft? But Colorado still ranks among the best states to do business in, according to a new study-type thing by CNBC.com. The financial-news channel scored all 50 states in a variety…
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what happens in Denver? It’s too boring to tell stories about anyway. That’s the impression that a Wednesday story in the Wall Street Journal may have left on readers. Headlined “Government Meeting? Stay Away From Fun City,” the article was about how…
The number of Colorado companies executing large numbers of jobs at once is falling, the Denver Business Journal reports this morning, a sign that slightly less sucky times may lie ahead: (T)he number of Colorado workers let go in June’s mass layoffs declined by more than half, to 832 in…
Only in the Bizarro World of Fox News would Michael Karolchyk — the tax-dodging misogynist behind the Anti-Gym — qualify as a reliable expert on anything, let alone the president’s pick for a new surgeon general. But the cable-news channel went ahead and invited him anyway, so he could do…
