For the first time this summer, Monarch High School teacher Shane Stalter ditched the shorts for pants and button-down shirts. He’d landed a two-month externship, which is essentially an internship for professional…
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Recycling can feel pointless. Here are Colorado companies changing that.
Flimsy plastic bags can have an afterlife Some days it smells like chocolate inside Driven Plastics’ recycling plant in Pueblo. But what the company is making out of used shrink wrap, plastic…
Big companies like to buy Colorado’s thriving outdoor businesses — and then move them out of state
Thirty years ago this month in a Boulder garage, Bruce “Bruno” McGowan and Bruce “Edge” Edgerly minted their first Alpine Trekker, a clunky contraption that enabled skiers to skin uphill in alpine…
As new laws are proposed, Colorado companies share how they use AI to make business better
Update: Colorado’s proposed bill requiring companies that use artificial intelligence to be transparent with consumers passed the General Assembly on the last day, May 8, 2024. The bill now heads to the…
In four years, Colorado workers at 143 companies filed to form a union. At least 16 have a contract.
Days to first contract: 247, 500 and never There’s no central repository for union contracts. The NLRB keeps track of workplaces that file for representation, but not all do, so even that…
Oil companies used fraudulent scheme to shift liability for orphaned Colorado wells onto the state, lawsuit claims
A rusting orphan well sits at the end of Cindy McCormick’s driveway. She passes it when she goes out and when she comes home — a horsehead pump jack, a dilapidated shed,…
Colorado AG sues to block merger between parent companies of King Soopers and Safeway
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block a merger between the parent companies of Safeway and King Soopers. In the lawsuit, Weiser said the merger would eliminate competition…
Colorado plans to offer tax credits, loan guarantees to quantum-technology startups and expanding companies
Colorado may be an official U.S. Tech Hub for quantum technology, but to help the budding commercial industry nab a chunk of what is purported to become a trillion-dollar sector, state officials…