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Diversity Corporation of the Year
Managed Business Solutions Managed Business Solutions has taken its commitment to diversity from Colorado Springs to a remote village in southeast Alaska.The 18-year-old IT company, a subsidiary of Native Alaskan-owned Sealaska Corp., provides hardware and software services in North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. N[...]
Military economics
Editor's note: This is the last of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. I was fortunate to be part of a delegation through the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's Colorado[...]
The invisible industry of tourism
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. I recently had the good fortune of participating in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Founda[...]
Seeing the Springs with new eyes
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. Colorado Experience, a program of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation, brought deleg[...]
Visions of Colorado
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. Colorado collaborates. In recent years, Colorado leaders have set aside partisan differences to [...]
Higher ed’s high impact
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. When it comes to an area's future growth, it's natural to look to business and industry as key [...]
Experiencing Colorado
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of six articles written by business and community leaders who participated in the Denver Metro Leadership Chamber Foundation's "Colorado Experience" excursion to Colorado Springs in late April. For some time, the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation has looked to bring its [...]
Colorado cool stuff: Everything for outdoor fun
ALPACKA RAFTA lifelong boater and professional sewer, Sheri Tingey was dissatisfied with the quality of the packrafts - packable rafts - on the market, so she took matters into her own hands and launched Alpacka Raft in 2000."Those boats are made for floating on a lake," she says. "I wanted a river boat." Made from heavy-duty, doub[...]
Chasing the best deal for health
With four black belts in his closet and a mountain bike worth more than the car in his garage, Alan Hesker never dreamed a hip disorder would sideline him at age 46. The single father also never imagined that, with a good job and health insurance, the out-of-pocket expenses for the surgery he needed to get back in the bike saddle w[...]
State of the state: Briefs
Thousand Cankers disease threatens walnut industry When a tree falls in the urban forest, people hear the sound. And when one becomes hundreds, entire cities take note, and mobilize a coalition of forestry experts. Thousand Cankers disease is attacking black walnuts, and cities from Pueblo to Longmont are suffering losses. Walnut twi[...]
Making beautiful music
Every year, Colorado Public Radio partners with local music foundations and ensembles for its annual instrument drive to help "keep the music alive." CPR's instrument drive, which wrapped up last month, first began in November 2008, and all the instruments were collected into the late 2009. A year after the collection began, the ins[...]
Colorado cool stuff: My Munch Bug, UrgentRx, undies and shortbread
MY MUNCH BUG CD Melanie Potock is a speech therapist with a private practice in Boulder (dubbed Chatter Bug) with a specialty in eating disorders. She's written a "My Munch Bug" book to teach kids the joy of food, and now has followed it up with a CD of the same name. The 11 songs include old favorites like "On Top of Spaghetti" alo[...]
Accessing your health with a touch of a button
On a recent business trip to Boston, I awoke feeling ill and wondered: • Based on the symptoms, what is the possible cause?• Are these symptoms normal or should I expect something else?• Should I go to a doctor? Who's the best doctor to see?• And if so, where? Is it serious enough to go to the Emergency Department(ED) or sho[...]
Asleep at the wine-drinking wheel
Last week I posted a query on Facebook: Where - in Colorado - is the very best patio for sitting in the sun and sipping your favorite glass of wine? A dozen responses instantly ensued, packed with over two dozen suggestions. As the author of memoir called - ahem - Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship (www.cathiebeck.com) - and, as the lon[...]
Mad skills and updated resumes
Nobody likes a know-it-all, but employers do like workers who are educated and have the newest, most relevant skills. Professionals who have college degrees hope that if they earn more certifications or another degree, they will become more hirable or promotable. To respond to both employers' and workers' needs, Colorado's inst[...]
Rocky Mountain Way
Colorado isn't widely known for its importance in the music industry, but maybe it should be. With a collection of Grammy-winning recording and mastering facilities in the Boulder area, and new ones being built, the world's most important and unique performance venues and festivals, and an entire genre of music emerging from the are[...]
The Economist: How far have we come?
Economists are notorious pack rats. We save everything. I suppose today's crop of younger economists retain their information in electronic form or out there in "the cloud," but my generation clips and photocopies and prints and files. Over the course of 35 years, that adds up to quite a bit of paper. A few months ago I decided it w[...]
Colorado cool stuff: Necklissi, Tugo, Patsy’s candies and beer mustard
NECKLISSIShortly after retiring from teaching, Gloria Tate pursued an idea that came to her a few years earlier. "I had a dream - literally," she says. "I saw somebody coming toward me in a business suit with this jewelry." That jewelry - which was pinned on the back of the suit on the seam under the collar, with two strands hanging[...]
The Eonomist: Things to do in 2011?
I've just finished reading my granddaughter's senior honors thesis on improving bikeability (i.e., riding our bikes to work or on errands), a thoughtful, brilliant piece of work in my totally unbiased point of view. It got me to thinking about things we can all do in 2011 to treat our planet a bit more gently. It's easy for me to ad[...]
Hick’s wise water pick
Governor-elect John Hickenlooper has critics and supporters alike chirping about his cabinet picks, but appointing Colorado Agriculture Commissioner John Stulp to the position of Special Policy Advisor on Water to the Governor should have bipartisan support. Water is the preeminent economic development challenge in Colorado and the [...]
