Denver Business Journal articles from June 2000

Denver Business Journal archives from June 2000

Presenting the DBJ's High-Tech Directory.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... If you're looking for an Internet service provider, an information technology consultant, a place to purchase new or used computer equipment, someone to repair your computer systems or a company to install telephone technology, the Denver...

Largest Denver-Area Software Development Firms.(Directory)
June 2, 2000... Largest Denver-Area Software Development Firms (Ranked by the number of Colorado employees) ...

Film expo set for October.(Rocky Mountain Film Video Expo)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The Rocky Mountain Film Video Expo has set Oct. 4-5 as the dates for its EXPO 2000 at the Denver International Airport Holiday Inn. With more than 150 manufacturers exhibiting their newest equipment, the expo is one of the largest regional...

'Sound of Music' soars, but where are the hills?
June 2, 2000... David Pritchard, who recently took over the reins at the Country Dinner Playhouse, set about to make some immediate changes as the new president and producer of the dinner theater. Among them is making good on his promise to bring in outside...

These are station wagons you'd actually want to drive.(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
June 2, 2000... Growing up as a teenager in the 1970s meant two things: you probably had a haircut that you'd love to forget and you probably learned how to drive behind the wheel of an enormous station wagon. High school and station wagons just didn't mix...

Does 'Mile High' really have to go?(name of Denver, CO's new football stadium)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... There's no secure ground to stand on in the stadium naming rights debate. Support the sale of naming rights and thus bring in up to $90 million to reduce the taxpayers' debt and one risks being labeled a mercenary or accused of being in...

'Chainsaws' in the night.(motorcycle noise is nuisance in Denver, CO)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The mayor and city council have embarked on a plan to "civilize" downtown Denver, including a crackdown on aggressive panhandling, sidewalk sleeping and assorted activities deemed unsavory by more polite elements of society. But there's...

China marks turning point.(House approves China trade deal)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Minutes after winning the vote to grant permanent normal trading relations with China, House Speaker Dennis Hastert cracked open a giant fortune cookie. "New prosperity awaits you," the fortune read. An hour later, opponents of the...

Potential of China must be tapped.(Senate to vote on China trade deal)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The U.S. Senate is about to vote on landmark legislation that will shape the future trade relationship between the United States and China, the world's largest emerging marketplace. Today access to the Chinese market is hindered by a vast...

DBJ STOCK REPORT.(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2000... DBJ STOCK REPORT DBJ Index 1857.39 1.2% NASDAQ 3205.11 5.4% S&P 500 1378.02 2.0% Dow Jones Industrial 10299.24 3.0% Top 10 Weekly Gainers...

DBJ FUNDWATCH.(Denver-based mutual funds)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2000... DBJ FUNDWATCH Our exclusive weekly report ranks the top Denver-managed mutual funds, ranked by year-to-date total return. The information is derived from a ...

ACT Teleconferencing launches new service.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver company offers Action Connect Plus Now executives around the globe can reach out and touch one another on demand, thanks to the latest offering from a local teleconferencing provider. Denver-based ACT Teleconferencing Inc. has...

Savings Account Yields.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2000... Listed are the effective annual yields, after compounding, on a variety of savings instruments offered in the Denver area. Yields are fixed rate for all certificates of deposit (CD). Rates paid are for deposits of $2,500, except jumbo CDs,...

National Interest Rate Index.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2000... National Interest Rate Index Current rate Previous Net change SHORT-TERM INTEREST RATES (%) week (%) (+ or-) Prime rate 9.50 9.50 ...

Borrowing Rates.(Colorado)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 2, 2000... Borrowing Rates Auto terms: $10,000 loan. 48-month ...

Current Tax-exempt Bond Offerings.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Current Tax-exempt Bond Offerings Issue Coupon rate Maturity Yield Adams & Weld Cntys Sdiool Dist 6.88 12-01-01 4.80 Arvada CO Sales & Use Tax Rev 4.20 12-01-08 5.85 Larimer...

NEWSMAKERS.(Business Brief)
June 2, 2000... Accounting Levine, Hughes & Mithuen Inc. appointed Verlene M. Ross, one of the firm's audit partners, to a two-year term on the board of directors for the Colorado Society of CPAs. Architecture and design New employees at RNL...

Three Colo. golf courses singled out as best.(Colorado)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Only three Colorado courses made it to the green in Conde Nast Traveler magazine's June ranking of the world's 50 best golf resorts, but they were among readers' favorites. The Colorado trio includes the Broad-moor in Colorado Springs at...

House panel cuts out budget for ergonomics.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The House Appropriations Committee struck a blow against OSHA's proposed ergonomics standard by eliminating funding for enforcing the regulations from the agency's budget. Ergonomics opponent Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., calls the move a...

Doctors' union thwarted.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Legislation to give doctors collective bargaining rights was pulled from the House floor on the eve of Congress' week-long Memorial Day recess. The American Medical Association calls the delay "an outrageous subversion of the American...

Code of ethics adopted.(Internet Healthcare Coalition)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The Internet Healthcare Coalition unveiled a code of ethics for the Web's 15,000-plus health-care sites. The code calls for sites to provide accurate, up-to-date information and disclose any sponsorship relationships. It also requires...

Agencies must meet goal.(Small Business Administration seeks to increase opportunities for woman-owned small businesses)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... President Clinton ordered government agencies to designate a senior acquisition official to promote contracting opportunities for woman-owned small businesses. Last year female entrepreneurs won only 2.5 percent of all federal contracts --...

IRS to aid small biz.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Small businesses spend an average of $7 in compliance costs for every $1 in federal income tax they owe, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. This ratio may fall slightly after the Internal Revenue Service ramps up...

Repeal of estate tax likely to die.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The House is poised to pass legislation that would phase out the estate tax over 10 years, but even supporters of the bill are not optimistic that the Senate will follow suit during this short election-year session. "It's very difficult on...

ASPs changing the face of small business.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The jumble of alphabet soup spilling out of the technology industry is enough to make any small-business owner run for cover. However, it turns out at least one of those nebulous acronyms might actually make life easier and more productive...

GolfTEC breaks par.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Technology helps golfers improve their game Back in January members of the Video Broadcasters Association were attending a conference. They dutifully shuffled into the next scheduled event in a conference room but they may have thought they...

Forging a new strategy for Strategies.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Change, it's often said, is good. More than three years after The Denver Business Journal introduced a new approach to Small Business Strategies, we're reinventing the section again to reflect the changing demands of small business. ...

McGetrick among top golf instructors in the U.S.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... To find one of the nation's top golf instructors, look no further than the Meridian Golf Course in Englewood, home of the Mike McGetrick Golf Academy. In October of last year, McGetrick was named the 1999 Professional Golf Association...

Foundation gives $1.3M in grants.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The Denver-based Gill Foundation awarded grants totaling $1.3 million in the month of May. Locally, the Boulder County AIDS Project received $60,000 in general operating support over two years; the Colorado AIDS Project received $5,000 of...

The formula for determining cash flow.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... A statement of cash flow is essential for any small business. Banks may require one in order to approve a loan. Here's the formula for converting an income statement into a statement of cash flow: beginning cash, plus/minus net income/loss,...

Services make life easier for home businesses.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Nothing puts the old saying, time is money, into perspective faster than working for yourself from home. It's a shame that all the time I spend on the details of running my home-based business can't be classified as billable hours. Since I...

Finalists named for EOY.(Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year program)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Thirty-three finalists from the Rocky Mountain region have been announced in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year program. The 33 individual finalists representing 31 companies were feted at a reception at the Governor's Mansion May...

Some lessons learned on the real estate beat.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... This is my last real estate column. It probably should have been my first because it's about what I do and how I do it. One of the reasons I've enjoyed writing about real estate for 11 years, nearly six of them in Denver, is that I've found...

United plans $100M concourse expansion.(United Airlines Denver International Airport gate expansion)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... United Airlines plans to spend as much as $100 million to expand Concourse A at Denver International Airport. The expansion will add more gates for United Express flights. United currently leases eight gates at Concourse A where its partner...

Lockheed wins contract.(to research and identify how to get into space cheaper and safer than aboard the space shuttle)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. in suburban Denver will share a $15 million NASA contract to research and identify how to get into space cheaper and safer than aboard the space shuttle. Lockheed is one of nine companies chosen for the...

Qwest signs $40M deal.(to provide telecommunications services for MedQuist Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. signed a $40 million, three-year deal with MedQuist Inc., a national provider of medical transcription services. The agreement calls for Qwest to provide dedicated and switched voice...

DISH leaves out four cities.(Echostar Communications Corp's DISH Network unable to reach agreements with four local affiliates)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Littleton-based Echostar Communications Corp. completed is multi-year retransmission consent agreements prior to Monday's deadline with a majority of broadcast groups in 28 markets. Those agreements and contract negotiation extensions with...

State fines four insurers.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... The Colorado Division of Insurance assessed fines against four property and casualty insurers that do business in the state. The companies were fined in part for failing to promptly pay claims. The size of the fines varied with the number...

Investment adviser fined.(Schield Management Co.)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver investment adviser Schield Management Co., president Marshall Schield and employee Troy Schield have been ordered to pay $80,000 in penalties for misleading the public in its advertisements between March 1994 and December 1998. The...

Two law firms expand.(Denver )(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Two Denver law firms have expanded their practices -- one to help build liability and technology business, the other to grow labor and employment law. Holland & Hart has added David Black and Craig Allely as partners in the firm's...

Duke cancels IPO plan.(Duke Energy Field Services Corp)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver-based Duke Energy Field Services Corp. has postponed plans to go public, even as energy prices are on the increase. The overall reception for IPOs on Wall Street is poor, however, so Duke won't be banking on raising $579 million as it...

McDonald's buys chain.(McDonald's Corp. buys Boston Market)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... McDonald's Corp. has closed on its acquisition of Boston Market, the Golden-based chain of chicken restaurants. The company has named Jeffrey Kindler, currently executive vice president of McDonald's, as the chairman and CEO of Boston Market....

AT&T.(lowers Colorado in-state long-distance rates)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... AT&T will lower its in-state long-distance prices for customers this week. Residential customers of AT&T's basic long distance schedule and two popular calling plans will enjoy lower prices [ldots]

US West.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... More than 100,000 U S West Communications customers in Fort Collins and Fort Lupton lost phone service Wednesday when a telephone fiber line was Cut just south of Platteville near a weigh station along Interstate 25.

eCollege.com.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver-based eCollege.com announced board member Oakleigh Thorne will step up as its new chief executive officer and chairman of the board.

Trip.com hits the ice with big new ad campaign.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... There is still one Colorado team headed to the Stanley Cup finals. Trip.com and Barnhart/CMI Advertising and Public Relations joined forces for Trip.com's major hockey advertising campaign. The Englewood-based travel site invested in a new...

Schenkein gets attention.(Denver public relations firm)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Denver's Schenkein Public Relations was honored by Inside PR in the 1999 Creativity in Public Relations Awards. Schenkein received a CIPRA for its Globus & Cosmos public relations program and was the only Colorado agency honored this year. ...

Rebecca says goodbye.
June 2, 2000... In this column I've made note of other people leaving jobs and taking on new challenges and now it's time I mention myself. This will be my final column for The Denver Business Journal as I'm leaving the paper to tackle new challenges in the...

Psychiatric hospital cuts jobs, closes beds.(Colorado Psychiatric Health)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Colorado Psychiatric Health at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will likely cut 15 to 20 positions and close six beds in response to a $3.5 million deficit, administrators said Wednesday. The staffing cuts, expected to...

Plane maker picks Centennial site.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Manufacturing plant could employ 200 Although some say it took an act of Congress to save it, aircraft manufacturing doesn't scare a small Englewood startup, which is laying plans to manufacture a newly designed, six-seat airplane from a...

Farer's views on pending China vote.(academic Tom Farer)
June 2, 2000... It may seem contradictory that longtime human rights activist Tom Farer is for normalizing trade relations between this country and China, in light of the Far Eastern giant's past poor human rights record. But the dean of the University of...

Press release prompts Qwest to kill deal.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Calling it an effort to protect its good name, Qwest Communications International Inc. abruptly pulled the plug on a reseller contract with an Internet company because the company issued an "unauthorized" press release. A subsidiary of...

Quark-Adobe rivalry gets ugly.(licensing of PDF portable document format)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Bad blood between companies puts a key feature of new product in jeopardy The escalating hostility between Quark Inc. and its chief competitor, Adobe, is heating up again with the latest version of Quark's flagship desktop publishing...

RETAIL RECYCLING.(flourishing resale industry in Colorado)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Resale operations making big bucks It's not just garage sales and Goodwill. For Denver's retailers resale is big business. "I owe my business to used records." said Paul Epstein, president of Twist and Shout, a Denver store that sells...

CLECs vie to compete with U S West.(Competitive Local Exchange Carriers)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Forty two companies register with PUC to provide local telephone service The names seem to change every week -- MGC Communications, Maxcess, Compuconnections Network Corp., and Second Century Communications -- but the request is the same....

Fund manager credits dad for success.(Helen Young Hayes of Janus Worldwide Fund)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Helen Young Hayes has to hand it to her father -- and she does. Hayes, co-manager of Janus Worldwide Fund and manager of Janus Overseas Fund, was lauded last month by the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. She...

Backlash calms down.(protest over motion picture violence following Columbine High School massacre)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Variety magazine notes that the immediate furor over Hollywood's racy content that marked the months following the Columbine tragedy has died down. Although politicians and social conservatives were immediately vigilant critics of the...

Chef joins Champps.(Andre Halston)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Englewood-based Champps Entertainment Inc. has brought a new flavor to its restaurants with the appointment of award-winning chef Andre Halston as director of culinary. Halston's awards include Best of Show at the Auguste Escoffier...

Tiger comes to Denver.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... More than 3,500 local youths from the Denver area will get to tee it up with Tiger Woods during a golf clinic on Sunday, June 4. Woods and his father, Earl, will be at the Park Hill Club in Denver from 2-4 p.m., but the-guest list is by invite...

U.S. Bancorp's trying to make banking easier.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Investment advisers around the country are trying to beef up their services to clients, especially online ones, but U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray thinks it has the meatiest offerings yet. The Minneapolis-based provider of investment services...

Author casts about for actors.(Brief Article)
June 2, 2000... Mason Ramsey hopes that if you don't read his book, you'll at least give it a listen. Unlike other books on tape, with a narrator reading all of the text, Ramsey's "Bodies in the Bay" will be transformed into a theatrical production of...

Correction.
June 2, 2000... * Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center is not among the private hospitals where nurses are organizing to form a union as reported incorrectly in a photo cutline in the May 26-June 1 issue of The Denver Business Journal.

Area code snafu ensnares Leadville.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Leadville, already struggling to stay afloat, has a new obstacle to overcome in its quest to lure tourists to the former mining town. A design change in the U S West Dex phone directory for Leadville, Vail and Summit County is causing...

DIA's 'B' maintains hectic pace.(Denver International Airport)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2000... Concourse B at Denver International Airport may be the busiest concourse in this country, but it's definitely one of the busiest. All of DIA's three concourses accommodated 38 million travelers last year. And most of those people -- nearly...

Hong Kong knocks on Colorado's doors.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2000... With China poised to become a full-fledged member of the international business community and the Asian economy recovering from the late '90s crash, Hong Kong is the perfect launching pad into the world's largest market. That's the message...

Home permits down from 1999.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2000... Expert says higher mortgage rates are dampening growth expectations The Denver-area new home market is off to a sluggish start compared with last year's record-setting pace. For the first two months of 2000, the number of single family...

Taking charge.(Rahmat Shoureshi helps solve power problem)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Mines professor helps solve power problem Rahmat Shoureshi, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, is developing a powerful solution to common problems with power lines. Underneath the imposing name of the Electro-Magnetic...

Heart Association clears members.(American Heart Association)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2000... Treasurer says internal probe vindicates him An internal review by the American Heart Association has cleared two Denver board members from suggestions they may have violated the board's policies in promoting a plan to "securitize"...

Realtor buys Hickenlooper a new scooter.
June 9, 2000... If you catch Wynkoop Brewing Co. owner John Hickenlooper tooling around Lodo on a sporty new motor scooter, you can thank Kentwood City Properties' owner/broker associate Dee Chirafisi. Hickenlooper recently recommended Chirafisi's...

The spotted[ldots].(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo luncbing with GOP supporter and moneyman Bruce Benson. Tancredo, in somewhat of a race in the Republican dominated 6th District with Democrat Ken Toltz, has been battered over guns, foreign trade and other...

The gone[ldots].(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Don Knox, business editor of The Denver Post since December, announced that he is joining the ranks of journalists moving to the dot-corn world. He's resigning from The Post to join an unnamed Internet venture, not unlike QuickInfo.com, a...

Caring for Colorado still hasn't spent any money.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 9, 2000... Six months ago, Colorado received $155 million for health-related programs, but so far, none of it has been spent. Caring for Colorado, a nonprofit health foundation, was created when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado converted to a...

Correction.
June 9, 2000... Information was incorrect in the June 28 story about the United States expanding trade with China. The U.S. House of Representatives' recent vote to grant China permanent normal trade rights, or PNTR, with this country was a win for Democratic...

Quark battles rumors over its latest version.(product to allegedly contain Adobe Acrobat)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Quark Inc. tried to put rumors to rest this week that it would include a version of its competitor's product in the Denver company's newest version of QuarkXpress -- a widely used desktop publishing software. The rumors surrounded Quark's...

Lively cancels his plans to join admin staff at DU.(Bill Lively leaves Up with People and University of Denver)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Bill Lively, president and CEO of Up with People, has decided not to stay in Denver after all. Lively announced in April he was leaving the Broomfield-based nonprofit organization to become a vice chancellor at the University of Denver....

Legal organizations merge.(Earthlaw and Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund merge)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Denver-based Earthlaw, an environmental law firm serving the public interest, has merged with a like-minded organization, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. The merged organization will be known as Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. ...

Breckenridge timeshares expected to be big sellers.(Colorado timeshare)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Forty-two timeshare units with the Hyatt flag will go on sale around the third week of June for Main Street Station in Breckenridge, and they are expected to go quickly. In February, developer East West Partners sold 82 units there in six...

Romer tabbed to run L.A. school district.(Roy Romer becomes chief of Los Angeles schools)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Colorado's former governor, Roy Romer, is the new supervisor for Los Angeles' schools. The L.A. school district is the country's second largest with more than 700,000 students; the entire state of Colorado doesn't have that many students. ...

On Command HQ moving.(main offices to move to Denver, Colorado)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Liberty Media Corp. plans to move On Command Corp.'s headquarters from San Jose, Calif., to the Denver area's southeastern suburbs in the next year. Liberty acquired On Command, the country's largest provider of movies and Internet services to...

Parking lot owners sued.(Americans with Disabilities Act basis of lawsuit)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... A Denver-based group has taken legal action against several owners of parking lots in downtown Denver for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. Eight Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition members filed a suit against the companies in...

StorageTek honored.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Storage Technology Corp. and the StorageTek Foundation were honored recently by the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City. The Louisville-based data storage company was recognized for supporting programs that serve...

Forest Oil signs deal.(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Denver-based Forest Oil Corp. this week announced it has made an agreement with Shell Canada Ltd. to jointly explore and develop a 162-square-mile area in Alberta, Canada. Forest will have a 40 percent interest in the joint venture and...

Simpson Housing deal done.(Simpson Housing Corp. buys Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... Denver apartment developer Simpson Housing Corp. has completed its purchase of Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing Inc. in a deal valued at $85 million. KBMH was part of California-based Kaufman and Broad Home Corp., one of the country's...

Towns convert to DISH.(Colorado towns to receive satellite television service)(Brief Article)
June 9, 2000... EchoStar Communications Corp. announced DISH Network and a local cable company are teaming up to offer every cable customer in Ouray and Ridgway, Colo., a free DISH Network satellite TV system. This marks the first time DISH Network has...