Denver Post: Business
- Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 12:26 PMBy HALELUYA HADERO
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Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago. - Selling your home without a realtor? Understand 4 risks first
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 04:34 PMBefore deciding to sell your home on your own, it’s essential to understand the potential risks and challenges involved.
Some homeowners sell their homes independently, hoping to keep more of the proceeds.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver-area startup aims to be leading supplier of advanced electric motors
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 08:00 AMA young company that formed during the pandemic and chose the Denver area as its base has big ambitions: to become the world’s leading supplier of advanced electric motors.
The company, H3X, was founded by a team of engineers and has grown since its start in 2020 to 33 employees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver police restrict late-night weekend food truck operations in LoDo — again
Thursday - 09/05/2024 - 08:00 AMThe Denver Police Department is once again prohibiting food trucks from operating in parts of Lower Downtown during late-night weekend hours.
Police officials attribute the policy change to a need to control crowds and prevent violent incidents after bars and nightclubs let out.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Does Google’s monopoly impact search results? Tech titan faces reckoning.
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 09:00 AMThe founders of internet search and digital advertising giant Google wrote in a 1998 paper that goals for online advertising “do not always correspond” to useful internet search results.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vacant RiNo office building Rev360 for sale at ‘incredible discount’
Monday - 09/02/2024 - 08:00 AMFor sale: office building, never used.
The Rev360 building in RiNo, which has sat unused since it was completed in July 2020, is for sale.
Rev360 is owned by San Francisco-based Shorenstein, which bought it in November 2021 for $72 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wage theft, abuse and control: How Colorado farms take advantage of migrant workers
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 08:00 AMColorado farmers have become increasingly reliant on seasonal foreign labor to grow the food that makes it your local grocery store.
The H-2A visa allows American employers to hire foreign laborers for agricultural work when they cannot find domestic help to do the job.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This organization has effectively eliminated agricultural worker abuse. Will Colorado farmers join the cause?
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 08:00 AMOLATHE — Alejandro Soria knows he has it good here.
For eight years, the Mexican native has been coming to Colorado’s Western Slope, picking and sorting produce for the Tuxedo Corn Company.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Realtor lists his century-old Cap Hill mansion for $4.4M
Saturday - 08/31/2024 - 08:00 AMDouglas Kerbs fell in love with 727 N. Washington St. when he first saw the property in 2008.
He wasn’t planning to buy a house, but he worried about its future if he didn’t buy the stately 9,104-square-foot Capitol Hill mansion constructed in 1911.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Explore RiNo: A vibrant neighborhood that blends art and culture
Friday - 08/30/2024 - 11:27 PMDenver’s River North Art District, known as RiNo, is a historic neighborhood with loft-style condos, townhomes, apartments, single-family homes, restaurants, bars, and breweries.
Known as “the place where art is made,” RiNo is also home to art galleries, studios, and vibrant street art.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver seeks court order dismantling billboards on Auraria campus
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 02:23 PMThe Auraria Higher Education Center has, on several occasions in the past decade, openly defied Denver’s zoning restrictions around digital billboards, the city alleges.
City attorneys are asking a judge to force that cluster of colleges just west of downtown to take down two of the three billboards on its campus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - El Chapultepec redevelopment plan denied, but Monfort Cos. to resubmit application
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 05:41 PMWhile suffering a setback, the effort to preserve a portion of the El Chapultepec jazz club, a Lower Downtown Denver landmark, is still alive.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Worries mount over fate of Denver’s Grande Dame, the Brown Palace Hotel: “It is in a free fall now”
Thursday - 09/05/2024 - 08:00 AMFor decades, nothing epitomized the highest tier of hospitality in Denver more than The Brown Palace Hotel & Spa.
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It served as the landing spot for U.S. presidents and celebrities when they came into town, and a gathering place for local movers and shakers cutting deals over power lunches at Ellyngton’s, cocktails at the Ship Tavern or cigars at Churchill Bar. - She made “very demure” go viral. Now she wants to trademark its use.
Tuesday - 09/03/2024 - 07:29 PMBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
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NEW YORK — “Very demure, very mindful” has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet’s summer. And TikTok creator Jools Lebron is now working to trademark uses of her now-viral words. - Denver Beer Co. expands to Phoenix with a new brewery, different name
Tuesday - 09/03/2024 - 08:00 AMDenver Beer Co. is preparing to fly south this winter to start a new brewery with a new name.
The company is expanding to Phoenix under the moniker Formation Brewing., said CEO Robert MacEachern.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Casa Bonita is finally opening up reservations to everyone
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 06:44 PMIt’s time to practice your best Eric Cartman impression because you’ll be able to book a reservation soon at Casa Bonita — no lottery luck needed.
The famed Lakewood restaurant officially opens to the general public on Oct.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What is the H-2A visa program?
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 08:00 AMThe food that Americans sit down to eat at their dining room table has, over the decades, increasingly been picked, sorted and shipped by seasonal foreign workers.
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These laborers — the majority of whom come from Central and South America — stay in the United States for roughly half the year as part of the federal H-2A visa program, a temporary work arrangement offered by American employers who cannot find domestic workers to do the job. - In a co-warehousing space, an entrepreneur has sticking power
Saturday - 08/31/2024 - 08:00 AMJustin Fowler spends nearly 12 hours a day in a tiny warehouse with two giant printers to make a living.
“Everyone hates their household printer,” he said. “Imagine one of this size.”
The 31-year-old car salesman turned entrepreneur moved into 600 square feet in a Denver co-warehousing space at 5180 Fox St.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - San Francisco moves to lead fight against deepfake nudes
Saturday - 08/31/2024 - 08:00 AMSAN FRANCISCO — Like many parents, Yvonne Meré was deeply disturbed when she read about a frightening new trend.
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Boys were using “nudification” apps to turn photos of their female classmates into deepfake pornography, using images of the girls’ faces, from photos in which they were fully clothed, and superimposing them onto images of naked bodies generated by artificial intelligence. - See Granby Ranch’s new resort homes, where you could be moved in for ski season at 5.625% APR
Friday - 08/30/2024 - 10:56 PMOpen House Labor Day at Granby Ranch
What: See Granby Ranch’s new resort homes, where you could be moved in for ski season at 5.625% APR
Where: Saddle Mountain Resort Homes at Granby Ranch, family-oriented full-year resort; free brunch and live music Labor Day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver police create food truck zones in LoDo for late-night, weekend mobile eateries
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 01:55 PMDenver police are relegating food trucks in Lower Downtown to “destination zones” they created for weekend, late-night business after prohibiting the trucks from operating in certain areas to reduce violent crime, DPD said Friday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver grocery stores are locking up or cordoning off more products. But it depends on the neighborhood.
Friday - 09/06/2024 - 08:00 AMAt a Safeway grocery store in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, customers planning to peruse aisles 2 and 3 first must enter a secure shopping area cordoned off from the rest of the store.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With marijuana at a new level of scrutiny, here’s what the research says
Tuesday - 09/03/2024 - 06:00 AM“Illinois Democrats legalized marijuana,” proclaims a new billboard in Chicago. The ad, paid for by Gov. JB Pritzker’s campaign fund, takes credit for a change that polls show is supported by about two-thirds of Americans.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Non-alcoholic craft cocktail-dinner pairings are having a fun but sober moment
Wednesday - 09/04/2024 - 08:00 AMWhen Alex Jump began bartending more than a decade ago, customers weren’t regularly ordering non-alcoholic cocktails and beers. It wasn’t because of a lack of interest, though, she believes, but rather because of a lack of menu options.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Movie about Casa Bonita’s reopening proves no one but “South Park” guys could have pulled it off
Tuesday - 09/03/2024 - 02:03 PMNo one in the world loves Casa Bonita as much as Trey Parker, and it’s not even close.
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That much is clear after watching a 90-minute documentary called “¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!,” which follows the co-creator of “South Park” and partner Matt Stone on a journey to reopen the beloved Lakewood restaurant they visited as kids growing up in Colorado. - Unenforced Labor: An investigation into unsafe working conditions in Colorado agriculture
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 07:59 AMIn this three-part special report, The Denver Post details chronic abuses in Colorado’s agricultural supply chain — and the lack of action from state and federal regulators.
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The Post’s investigation found federal and state regulators have failed to keep seasonal migrant workers safe or ensure they’re paid correctly and on time. Nearly one in six H-2A visa employers in Colorado have violated federal labor laws, the newspaper found, but hardly any are barred from bringing workers again the following season. - Colorado sheepherders have been exploited for decades. The government has done little to stop it.
Sunday - 09/01/2024 - 08:00 AMROUTT NATIONAL FOREST — Ignacio Alvarado can still feel the presence of sheep as he winds his way through the rolling hills north of Craig.
The sounds are ingrained in his mind 30 years later — the low bellow of the momma sheep, the shrill shrieks of the babies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A JD Vance remix goes viral on TikTok, as political memes change shape
Saturday - 08/31/2024 - 08:00 AMOne of the hottest tracks on TikTok this summer is, unexpectedly, a 22-second Petey Pablo hip-hop beat remixed with a years-old audio clip of J.D. Vance — now former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick — declaring, before his loyalties changed, that he was “a never Trump guy.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - She learned how to use a new prosthetic limb that learned from her
Saturday - 08/31/2024 - 08:00 AMLONDON — Sarah de Lagarde was rushing to a train in September 2022 when she slipped and fell through a gap between the platform and the train. For 15 horrifying minutes, she was stuck on the tracks undetected.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Explore RiNo: A vibrant neighborhood that blends art and culture
Friday - 08/30/2024 - 11:27 PMDenver’s River North Art District, known as RiNo, is a historic neighborhood with loft-style condos, townhomes, apartments, single-family homes, restaurants, bars, and breweries.
Known as “the place where art is made,” RiNo is also home to art galleries, studios, and vibrant street art.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share