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UMB Bank's Brust talks about investing
UMB Bank Wealth advisor Marti Brust talks about where to put your excess cash flow and what factors drive investment decisions
Women Visionaries Celebrate
Event highlights and photos from the June 2015 Top Woman-Owned Companies reception.
Denver: Top draw for millennials
Chris Wright’s companies – and the technologies they’ve spawned – have played a big role in the energy revolution of recent years. Pinnacle Technologies, which he founded and presided over for 14 years, created the hydraulic fracture mapping industry and developed the world’s most widely used frac...
Who stepped up during Colorado’s epic 500-year flood?
(Editor’s note: This content is sponsored by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED). No one who lived through the flood of September 2013 or followed it in the media will ever forget it. Flood waters along the Front Range forced the evacuation of more than 18,000 people and destroyed over 1,850 homes. More than 200 […]
Weld County tops the nation in employment gains for 2013
Weld County boasted the largest percentage increase in employment in the U.S. last year – 6 percent compared to 1.8 percent nationwide – and while it is home to roughly 21,000 active oil and gas wells and produces about 85 percent of all oil and gas in the state, the area’s economic health extends...
Ballot compromise: Victory for business…
(Editor’s note: This content is sponsored by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED). Colorado’s economy has experienced one of the strongest post-recession recoveries in the country, due largely to oil and gas production. Businesses ranging from commercial real estate to information technology have flourished in the process of servicing the energy industry. An estimated 33,89[...]
ENERGY: Cornerstone of Denver’s central business district
(Editor’s note: This content is sponsored by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED). Denver is a recognized hot spot among the nation’s emerging energy hubs, according to oil and gas authority Rigzone, which ranked it the third-best city in the world for oil and gas industry careers last year. So it came as little surprise […]
State’s authority affirmed in reversal of three local fracking bans
(Editor’s note: This content is sponsored by Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED). Colorado courts have struck down three Front Range fracking bans or moratoriums in recent months, indicating that local communities cannot legally override the state in regulating hydraulic fracturing. Boulder County District Judge D.D. Mallard threw out Longmont’s ban on fracking in July, [&[...]
Images under fire
(Sponsored Energy Section) No image has stoked fears and rallied the anti-fracking movement quite like the “flaming faucet” scenes in the “Gasland” documentaries. But key aspects of that depiction – and the attempt to connect the presence of methane in tap water to hydraulic fracturing – have been met with doubt and in some cases outright […]
Fracking and Colorado’s economy
(Sponsored Energy Section) Tom Clark likes to tell the story of the time a delegation of top businesspeople from Turkey was visiting Denver and took a particular interest in the region’s advancements in oil and gas development. “They had interpreters, and they certainly made a good effort with their English,” recalls Clark, the CEO of the […]
Fracking debate: What’s in it for families?
(Sponsored Energy Section) Colorado is one of the top six natural-gas producing states in the country, and residents paying utility bills every month are among those who benefit directly from that production. Average household energy costs in Colorado – $1,551 per year – are 23 percent less than the national average, primarily due to historically […]
What would an anti-fracking statewide amendment look like
(Sponsored Energy Section) A ballot initiative filed with the state’s Title Board – the first step in getting a measure onto the state ballot – has economic leaders throughout Colorado particularly concerned about the potentially crippling economic consequences it would bring. One such measure seeks to amend the state’s Constitution to give municipalities “the power […]