ColoradoBiz articles from April 2002

ColoradoBiz archives from April 2002

Readers respond.
April 1, 2002... DISTURBED BY RUNDLES Your recent editorial (March, "Ethics in Business? Hal") disturbed me personally. I realized that it was because you put all of us in the same category. Generalizations are unworthy of you or anyone when addressing...

Tech leaders check pulse.(Denver Metro Technology Industry)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... THE ENERGY WAS PALPABLE AS 500 PEOPLE FROM Colorado's high-tech industry gathered at the old El Jebel Temple, now called the 1770 Sherman St. Event Complex. The food was good, a jazz band played, and despite the last 12 months of layoffs,...

Believe in me: The motivational force from which all others are derived.
April 1, 2002... A YOUNG MAN I KNOW finally got his first job a couple of months ago. He graduated from college two years ago, and spent the following year wandering around Spain enjoying himself, and not earning much more than a pretty good facility with...

Capital ideas: Veteran investor heads up hedge fund. (Pulling the Strings).(Jerry Peterson)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... VETERAN MONEY MANAGER JERRY Peterson says the more bad markets he encounters, the more frustrated he is to see people losing capital because of volatile investments. After 19 years as a senior partner and key member of the mid-cap...

Ultimate success: Trainers say it's all in the mind. (Attitude/Altitude).(Maggie Conner)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... MAGGIE CONNER LOOKS GOOD ON TELEVISION, SHE LOOKS GREAT skiing, and she sounds very nice whispering from a compact disk that her listener, intended to be a golfer, must adopt the "mindset of a champion." "You, with the mindset of a...

Image isn't everything. (Life at the Top).(imaging)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... EVER SINCE OPRAH showed television viewers her results from a full-body scan a few years ago, full scans have boomed from one to two per week to four to five per day at Colorado Heart and Body Imaging, says Dr. James Ehrlich, medical director...

Cherry Creek's Papillon repeats.(Zagat's Salt Lake City/Denver restaurant survey)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT EDITION of Zagat's Salt Lake City/Denver restaurant survey, Papillon Cafe in Cherry Creek, featuring "great French fare with an Asian twist," ranked as Colorado's most popular eatery. The 2002 edition of the survey...

Space Odyssey: Industry looks for lift-off.(funding the space industry)
April 1, 2002... On October 18, 2001, a Delta II rocket cut across the midday sky above Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast. THE LAUNCH WAS A SYNERGISTIC SHOWCASE FOR Colorado's space industry. The rocket took shape at Boeing's plant in...

Applying yourself: Landing a new executive job takes work.
April 1, 2002... While soothsayers promise that better economic times will sprout with the spring tulips, thousands of Coloradans who were making big money a year ago are still trying to dig out of a winter of unemployment. Experts who find and fill jobs...

The Colorado Wage Claim Act: Are you liable for wages if your company seeks bankruptcy protection? (Practical Biz).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... * Corporate officers - did you know that under Colorado state law you could be personally liable if your company fails to pay wages to employees, even if your company has filed for bankruptcy protection? The Colorado Wage Claim Act (the...

The future of Human Resources: Technology assists in streamlining your HR department. (Practical Biz).(Will Hoover Co. and Advantius Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... For nearly thirty years, The Will over Company assisted its clients in developing best practices in an ongoing effort to deliver their products and services more efficiently. The Internet has transformed the world of business over the past few...

Quiet giant: Engineering firm takes on the world. (Hightech Coloradobiz).(Bob Uhler of Montgomery Watson Harza)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... As BOB UHLER TALKS FROM HIS COMPANY'S HEADQUARTERS in Broomfield, 400 of his firm's employees are in Manchester, England, tackling a $3 billion capital improvement project to upgrade the city's water infrastructure -- pipelines, treatment...

First, kill all the e-mails. (E-Buzz).(briefs)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... LAWYERS LOOKING TO INCREASE their productivity don't necessarily need to spend more time in the office. They just need to spend less time reading their e-mail. According to a nationwide survey, attorneys receive an average of 48 e-mails...

Where are they now? Itech startups of the month. (Hightech Coloradobiz).(Brief Article)(Column)
April 1, 2002... ABOUT THIS TIME AYEAR AGO I LISTENED AS A TALKING HEAD SPOUTTED doom on the nightly news predicting that 80 percent of all internet startup wouldn't fast the year the funding market was shop the situation can't get much worse and so on. ...

Profiles of outstanding CEOs: Getting to know some of Colorado's big names in regional business. (Colorado's Top CEOs).(Ray Ramirez, CEO of Univance Telecommunications, Inc. and Tom Hoyt, CEO and co-founder of McStain Neighborhoods)
April 1, 2002... Ray Ramirez CEO, UNIVANCE Ray Ramirez speaks with pride about the work that his wife, Erin, does raising their three children. He has a similar tone when he speaks about "the other baby" he nurtures, Univance Telecommunications, Inc....

Breaking ground in Broomfield: Retail projects lead new city's growth spurt.($29.8 million in sales taxes; shoppers spent $796 million in 2001, 63.7% increase over 2000)
April 1, 2002... COLORADO AND THE NATION AS A WHOLE MAY BE stumbling out of a recession, but Greg Demko, finance director with the City and County of Broomfield, doesn't seem to notice. Since construction of the Flatiron Crossing Shopping Center and Flatiron...

John Sackett: Double shift for hospital CEO. (Executive Edge).(CEO of Avista Adventist Hospital and Porter Adventist Hospital)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... AS JOHN SACKETT SEES IT, THE ONLY drawback to being CEO of two hospitals is that he'll no longer know every doctor, nurse and orderly by name. Sackett was the key figure in the launching of Avista Adventist Hospital of Louisville in 1990...

Paved with good inventions. (Money Matters).(Rocky Mountain Inventors' Conference )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A DIGITAL FAUCET THAT REGULATES THE TEMPERATURE OF TAP water. A leaf-scooping and bagging system that purportedly cuts fall raking chores in half. A snow plow that fits on the bumper of the common car. An easy-grip pen holder for teaching...

Colorado Boomerangs. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(advertisement)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Before getting into the business, bank examiner Richard Pollock-Nelson was a certified boomerang fanatic, not merely tossing a crescent in the park, but also collecting comebackers and competing in U.S. Boomerang Association-sanctioned events....

Night caster. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(advertisement)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... NIGHT CASTER: One of Colorado's few video-game developers, VRl Entertainment made the jump from cyberspace to the living room late last year when it released Nightcaster for the Microsoft Xbox. The game casts players in the role of Arran, a...

Swamp Co. rock posters. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In the span of a decade, Swamp proprietor Lindsey Kuhn has designed about 500 different rock posters promoting the concerts of such rockers as Fugazi, Metallica and Ween. After starting his career in Mississippi's punk rock and skateboard...

Victor Trading Co. tinware. (Cool Colorado Stuff).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... From its headquarters in a century-old brick building that once housed the Star of the West Saloon, the Victor Trading Co. bucks countless trends. Owner-operators Karen and Sam Morrison favor antique manufacturing equipment over computer-aided...

Scout's honor: Who do you trust?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Your pharmacist? What about the millionaire pharmacist in Missouri who was bilking customers by charging them for cancer medication and giving them fake drugs? He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of fraud, and said he did it so he could make the...

Tulips and taxes. (Last Look).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Caption: The onset of spring means the emergence of tulips and the filing of tax returns -- and Coloradans spending money on both. The average household spends $967 per year on gardening products, according to the Colorado Floriculture...