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Six Myths About Addiction in the Workplace
Almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong. There are many misconceptions about the disease, including its prevalence and impact in workplaces.
It's Time to Clean up Your Finances
When it comes to learning about personal finances, there are four overarching “buckets” to consider: spending, saving, borrowing and investing. Here are some tips that should help you become more literate with respect to your wallet.
Why Aren't You in Salida Right Now?
Water underpins Salida’s tourism, from rafting to fishing to soaking in the hot springs. Scott Peterson, marketing director for the Chaffee County Visitors Bureau, says lodging tax receipts have increased 50 percent since 2014.
The Cannabis Industry is a Safe Bet for Workers
An injury analysis by Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado’s largest workers compensation insurer, found that the industry is relatively safe compared with other cultivation, retail and manufacturing jobs in the state.
Time to Teach Colorado Tourists How to Behave
With an estimated 85 million visitors coming to Colorado each year, and half of those guests taking advantage of the state’s great outdoors, a little “Colo-Ready” education might be in order.
Can Cutting Your Handicap Reduce Your Taxes?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act whacked a 6-iron across the knees of everyone who has ever done business on a golf course and claimed the round as a tax deduction. Along with orchestra seats at the theater and corporate boxes at the ballpark, golf is now considered 100 percent entertainment and zero percent deductible.
Traveling Flu Crew Brings Urgent Care Home
Now even health care can be ordered and delivered. Denver-based DispatchHealth offers on-demand, mobile urgent care that flu sufferers and others can request via app or phone call.
Pilot Program
Boeing publishes 20-year outlooks on the pilot workforce based on aircraft orders and projections; the 2018 report says 90,000 to 120,000 new pilots will be needed in North America by 2038. The scarcity can’t be solved with mere want ads.
Executive Wheels: Best Feature Ever
This is an odd car – odd because I loved it, but I simply don’t understand why Honda makes it. The original Insight, which has no relation to this one except being a hybrid, debuted in the year 2000 as a subcompact, 3-door weird looking oddball of a car that featured only two seats.
Paying to Play
» Find the club nearest your home and the club nearest your work. Just as the best fitness resolutions crumble in the face of I-25 slowdowns, you’ll find that easy access yields more value.
Executive Wheels: Two Great Vehicles
I’m not sure why the car companies keep sending out new models that haven’t changed – in this case the Subaru BRZ – for review.
A New Neighborhood for Social Impact Businesses
Syntrinsic Investment Counsel (whose mission is helping people use capital to solve social challenges) is among a number of social impact focused businesses that have moved to the Cole, Clayton and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods.
