ColoradoBiz articles from November 2004

ColoradoBiz archives from November 2004

Thirsty for a solution.(on colorado)
November 1, 2004... "WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE" IS A SLOGAN MORE APROPOS TO Minnesota than Colorado, where the lack of water makes farmers of us all. Many of our livelihoods, much of our comfort, and, perhaps, our very survival may depend from season-to-season...

Our opinions not shared.(readers respond)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... Compliments to ColoradoBiz for climbing off the fence to make candidate and issue endorsements ("ColoradoBiz speaks," October) in this contentious election season. However, I was very disappointed with the rationale given for endorsing Pete...

No new taxes.(readers respond)
November 1, 2004... There is no reason to increase taxes beyond the formula provided in TABOR ("Memo to Owens: Gallagher must go," Robert Schwab, September). Why should state government get a larger slice of state gross domestic product? You may think spending...

Invertebrates need not apply: what to tell a kid who wants advice on how to be successful ... at anything.(on management)
November 1, 2004... RECENTLY I GOT TO TALKING TO A YOUNG person who, after our conversation, I would have recommended for any job he wanted in our company. Unfortunately, he wasn't looking for a job, so that wasn't an option. But this guy just blew me away. ...

Apprentices of ethics: at Colorado Christian U, business integrity trumps showmanship.(attitude at altitude)(Colorado Christian University)
November 1, 2004... FOISTING THE MANEUVERINGS OF THE American board room on prime-time viewers, NBC's reality show, "The Apprentice," has captivated myriad fans, turned unknown people such as Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth into overnight celebrities and made Donald...

Hensel Phelps Construction Co.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... TARYN EDWARDS, manager of procurement for Hensel Phelps Construction Co., was named the 2004 winner of the Athena Award given each year by the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce. Other finalists for the award were Ruth McKinney, COO and...

Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program Commission.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... President George W. Bush has named Colorado SENATE PRESIDENT JOHN ANDREWS, R-Centennial, to the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program Commission. The commission will make recommendations for the establishment of a program to expand...

The American College of Healthcare Executives.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The American College of Healthcare Executives has bestowed the Colorado Career Service Award on JOSEPH R. SWEDISH, president and CEO of Centura Health. ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 executives who are leaders in...

Aurora-based Advanced Circuits.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... RON HUSTON, chief executive of Aurora-based Advanced Circuits, is among six executives nationwide to be featured in Fortune Small Business as a "best boss." Fortune Small Business, in conjunction with Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit that helps...

University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... JEFF ROMINE, a regional economist specializing in economic and demographic estimates and long-term growth forecasts for Colorado, has joined the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business as a researcher. Romine comes to the...

Denver-based RE/MAX International.(PLAYMAKERS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Denver-based RE/MAX International has named GERALD STEEN director of franchise sales for company operated regions. In the new position, he will oversee franchise sales in seven regions that encompass 18 states.

Instapoll.(attitude at altitude)
November 1, 2004... COBIZMAG.COM 63% of respondents believe, as business travelers, that United Airlines is worth saving from liquidation in bankruptcy. Results obtained from Sept. 10 through Oct. 10. 70% of respondents said they would alter their choice...

November 2004.(COMING SOON)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... 4 Thursday, Jefferson County Business Forum, 7 a.m.-9:30 a.m. at the Denver Marriott West, 1717 Denver West Marriott Blvd., Golden. Learn what's on the horizon for the 2005 economy. Register at www.jeffco.org or call (303) 202-2965. 4-5...

Environment.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... U.S. Bank is providing two loans to the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, which will provide $3.5 million to the organization to purchase a building, the Alliance Center, to house a number of nonprofit organizations in Lower Downtown Denver....

Community service.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Scotchgard Protector, a product of Minnesota-based adhesives company 3M, have named the Central City Opera House in Gilpin County one of five national, historical treasures to receive...

Health care.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... For a second consecutive year, Kaiser Permanente Colorado is the only health plan in the state to rate among the top 10 in the nation for effectiveness of care, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance. NCQA, the nation's...

Acquisition.(Insiders' Biz)(M2P Capital)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Norwest Equity Partners and M2P Capital have acquired Denver's Deep Rock Water Co., a provider of bottled water for home and office delivery and retail markets. Deep Rock has production facilities in Denver and Grand Junction, Minneapolis and...

Finance.(Insiders' Biz)(Countrywide Bank)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Countrywide Bank, Thousand Oaks, Calif., a division of Treasury Bank N.A., has opened its first two financial centers in Colorado. The new centers are in Lakewood at 7740 W. Alameda Ave. and in Littleton at 2030 E. County Line Road....

Investing.(Insiders' Biz)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Denver-based Investment Management Consultants Association has started offering free, independent investment information to anyone, anywhere online at www.InvestmentHelp.org. The website is aimed at the executive-level investor with a $1...

A state of thirst: water woes foster ingenuity, argument, but no divining rod.(water woes)(part one in a series of two)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... Editor's note: Allen Best, the state's most knowledgeable writer on water issues facing Colorado, here offers ColoradoBiz readers the first of a two-part series on how and why our state faces a long-term water-supply crisis, and what can be...

Notes of an incurable 'car guy': going on 1,000 reviews, writer dazzled by auto choices.(2005 auto choices)
November 1, 2004... Car guy. People call me that all the time, mostly because they see me driving something new almost every week. For whatever reason, that also translates into my being an expert in car repair, although I know nothing about car repair since...

Identity crisis: e-banking security isn't automatic.(identity crisis)
November 1, 2004... It all started with a bad timing-belt on my Volkswagen--or so I thought. In fact, my car breaking down en route to Denver International Airport in May was actually the least of my problems. Two days later, my ATM card stopped functioning as...

Basalt's Hypercar aims for Detroit and 2010 rollout.(high tech coloradobiz)
November 1, 2004... MOST PEOPLE THINK OF AN EFFICIENT CAR AS GETTING 30 miles per gallon, but not the folks at Hypercar Inc. You'll need to triple that figure to get to the Basalt-based company's target. Hypercar's plan is to turn Detroit's status quo on its ear...

Alio industries.(TECH STARTUP OF THE MONTH)(Company Profile)
November 1, 2004... * WHEAT RIDGE * WWW.ALIOINDUSTRIES.COM * FOUNDED: JANUARY 2001 QUOTE OF NOTE: Everybody is price-conscious and trying to manufacture overseas and build things as cheap as possible. We really look at how to build things the...

Readers' choice: best service firms put to vote.
November 1, 2004... Size isn't everything. And besides, it's an election year. Two years ago this month, ColoradoBiz introduced a ranking of the state's top professional-service companies in six categories--the top 10 law firms, accounting firms, architects,...

Someone else: doing your business? How outsourcing business processes has become a way companies work.(SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION)
November 1, 2004... Companies these days outsource everything from advertising and marketing to customer relationship management, IT, production, security and support. Even companies that have traditionally opposed the notion of someone else doing their work for...

Harvesting megawatts on the eastern plans: wind turbines bolster Lamar ranches, local economy.(who owns colorado)
November 1, 2004... Robert Emick looks out his kitchen window across 30,000 acres of ranchland that have been in his family since 1918. For 85 years the view has been of cows and prairie, but now, in every direction, he sees wind turbines. ********** ...

Professor touts silent but vital economic cog.(money matters)
November 1, 2004... LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO FINANCIALLY back your startup? Unless you're holding a miracle drug or magic software that speculators will wager millions on, forget venture capital and wealthy angels, says Professor William Bygrave, head of Free...

Burlesque book.(colorado coolstuff)
November 1, 2004... As leader of Denver's "Burlesque As It Was" troupe, Michelle Baldwin (aka Vivienne VaVoom) knows her stuff, from sequins and feathers to the wink and a smile. She's recently translated her own burlesque-revival experience into an attractive...

Monkey-Toes.(colorado coolstuff)
November 1, 2004... Jenny Chism's business card reads "Mom/Creator/President," and it reads that way, she explains, "because Mom is the number-one title." The former trade-show decorator decided to stay home after she had her second daughter in 2002, then...

Kelty Carport.(colorado coolstuff)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Backpacking industry stalwart Kelty has been slowly expanding its Base Camp line of car-camping accessories in recent years. Introduced last month, the Carport is the newest addition to the collection. The lightweight product easily snaps on to...

Leaves in Bags system.(colorado coolstuff)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... A mechanical engineer who has called Denver home since 1962, Len Hierath has worked on everything from jet propulsion to laboratory automation. (The cattle scales he designed in 1976 and his tennis scorekeeping device from the early 1990s...

Homes fit for an executive lifestyle.(Advertisement)
November 1, 2004... So you're new to the Denver area and can't figure out the best place to invest in an executive-quality home. Or maybe you've lived here for years and regional growth has created so many new places to live that you can't decide where your next...

Darin Portnoy: Doctor Without Borders.(executive edge)(Medecins Sans Frontieres)
November 1, 2004... A GOOD FISHERMAN NEEDS PATIENCE. IT'S A TRAIT THAT SERVES DR. DARIN PORTNOY WELL, whether he's fishing in Gunnison, caring for patients at the Crested Butte Medical Center and the Gunnison Valley Hospital or treating wounded in war-torn Sudan....

Good sports: Colorado's other hockey teams refuse to exploit the NHL lockout.(sports biz)(National Hockey League)
November 1, 2004... YOU CALL THIS A SPORT OF TOUGH GUYS? A GAME FOR enforcers? Recreation for puck-marked madmen? Then explain this: How come the people who run the game of hockey seem to be so confoundingly civil? No, not those people. Not Gary Bettman or the...

Ghost of an airline.(rundles wrap-up)
November 1, 2004... WHEN I SAW THE NEWS A FEW WEEKS AGO THAT UNITED AIRLINES WAS GOING to cut its domestic-flight capacity by 12 percent and increase its international capacity by 14 percent, it piqued my interest. Then it began to haunt me. [ILLUSTRATION...