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As state regulators look into the high costs utilities paid last week to keep people warm and keep the lights on, Gov. Jared Polis has issued a strong warning against passing along “unexpected exceptional costs” to customers. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is investigating how utilities responded to the frigid weather that left millions in […]

A long, sometimes agonizing wait for federal unemployment payments to restart in Colorado came to an end for another 135,000 people over the last four days. Carrying out Phase 2 of its months-long rollout of the extended Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment […]

A few months after the Trump administration scrapped the Obama administration’s robust net neutrality rules in 2018, California passed its own open-internet law. The Justice Department immediately sued to block California’s net neutrality law, and it was in limbo until President Biden’s administration dropped the lawsuit last month. A federal judge in California on Tuesday […]

Amanda Palomino has spent the last several months baking cookies for friends while fostering dogs, and found a way to combine both of these interests through a new charitable company: Batter that Matters. Palomino, 27, lives in Bedford, New York. Her father owns several restaurants, but she is a self-taught baker, learning as she created […]

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday ordered airlines in the United States to ground planes with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend until they can be inspected for stress cracks. The FAA’s order applies to U.S. operators of airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, […]

Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday unveiled a plan to gradually raise the minimum wage to $10, rather than the $15 their Democratic colleagues are targeting. The reaction to the proposal among conservatives was mixed. Brad Polumbo, writing in The Washington Examiner, called the plan an “abandonment” of fiscal conservatism, likening […]

FENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The viral pandemic has triggered a cascade of price hikes throughout America’s auto industry — a surge that has made both new and used vehicles unaffordable for many. Prices of new vehicles far outpaced overall consumer inflation over the past year. In response, many buyers who were priced out of that […]

Tattered Cover is closing a chapter on its presence in LoDo. The bookshop chain’s 12,500-square-foot store on the corner of Wynkoop and 16th streets will shut down on March 17, according to new owner Kwame Spearman. BusinessDen broke the news last May that the store would be relocating to McGregor Square, the mixed-use project being built by […]

The Broadmoor continues its reign at the top. The Colorado Springs hotel was named a Forbes five-star hotel in 2021, maintaining the rating for 61 consecutive years. With the Penrose Room and the Broadmoor Spa onsite, it is Colorado’s only triple Forbes five-star award-winning property. That means the resort earned the highest mark for lodging, […]

Facebook said Tuesday it will end its week-long blockade of Australian news sites after reaching agreement with the Australian government on a pending law that forces Facebook and Google to pay news providers for their content. “Facebook has refriended Australia, and Australian news will be restored to the Facebook platform,” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told reporters […]

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) wanted to legalize marijuana within his first 100 days in office. He succeeded three years later, and three months after New Jersey voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to make weed legal for adults. Murphy signed a series of laws Monday that decriminalized possession of up to six ounces […]

Adolfo Melendez is looking out for his fellow small business owners in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Using $2,000 he had set aside to buy ads for his restaurant, Melendez purchased gift cards from seven other dining establishments in town, to be raffled off online. “If you help one person and that person will help another business, […]