http://www.bcbr.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Fsection%3FTemplate%3DRSS%26RSSType%3DToday%27sNews"> Today's News en-us http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529990&source=RSS LONGMONT - A plan for city officials in Longmont to take title of a Dillard's department store for a court-set price and demolish it could be heard by a district court judge on Thursday, June 6, now that a legal process has started.Elected city council members, acting as the Longmont Urban Renewal Authority, filed eminent... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529990&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130519932&source=RSS BOULDER - Attorneys for the city of Boulder on Friday filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission related to the possible creation of a local electric utility. The petition seeks to confirm that the city would have no stranded-cost obligations for portions of wholesale power it may continue to acquire from Xcel... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:20:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130519932&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529991&source=RSS BOULDER - The Innovation Center of the Rockies in Boulder will provide mentorship to entrepreneurs and startups in Golden who receive a scholarship from the city of Golden's Economic Development Commission.The commission is offering scholarships to local innovators and small startup companies to participate in the... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:19:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529991&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529992&source=RSS DENVER - The Boulder County Business Report on Friday received four awards in the 2013 Colorado Society of Professional Journalists' Top of the Rockies competition.BCBR, competing against news organizations from Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah with circulation between 30,000 and 75,000, was given two first-place... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:05:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529992&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130429898&source=RSS BROOMFIELD - Tickets are on sale for Mercury 100, an annual event presented by the Boulder County Business Report that recognizes the fastest-growing private companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties.The list of 100 companies will feature 50 companies with annual revenue of more than 2 million and 50 companies with... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:01:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130429898&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529993&source=RSS BOULDER - What's the impact of recent federal funding cuts on the local economy?That key question is up for discussion at the 2013 Boulder Economic Summit, being held from 730 a.m. to 1230 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at the Wolf Law Building on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus.Speakers also will discuss... Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130520/NEWS/130529993&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519933&source=RSS DENVER - Boulder County had the lowest foreclosure rate in the state for the first quarter of 2013 - with one completed foreclosure sale per 1,783 households.Across Colorado, the average was about 1 completed foreclosure sale per 670 households in the first quarter, or more than double the Boulder County rate, according to... Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519933&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519942&source=RSS BOULDER - North Carolina-based PowerServices Inc. has been selected by the city of Boulder to provide an independent review and verification of the city's modeling for a new electric utility.The independent review is to determine if the city's modeling meets Boulder's charter requirements to establish a municipal electric... Fri, 17 May 2013 14:22:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519942&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519934&source=RSS BOULDER - FreeWave Technologies Inc., a designer and manufacturer of spread-spectrum radios, has moved into a new corporate headquarters at 5395 Pearl Parkway in Boulder.The new space provides more room for manufacturing to support new and expanding business, a product testing center and more space for the continued growth... Fri, 17 May 2013 14:19:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519934&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519935&source=RSS BOULDER - Glove maker Agloves has closed its doors.Mother-daughter co-founders Jennifer and Jean Spencer decided it was better to close the Boulder company than to lose their personal relationship with each other, daughter Jean Spencer said.The company's product, Agloves, have silver knitted into the fingertips... Fri, 17 May 2013 14:17:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519935&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519937&source=RSS DENVER - The unemployment rate in Boulder County decreased to 5.1 percent in April, compared with 5.4 percent in March, according to a labor report released Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The jobless rate in Broomfield County improved to 6.4 percent, down from 6.8 percent in March, the report said. Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130517/NEWS/130519937&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519943&source=RSS BOULDER - The city of Boulder's Clerk's Office has notified a citizens group that its petition to put new provisions into the city charter concerning a potential municipal electric utility contains potential problems that could jeopardize the legality of the measure.In a letter to the five-person Voter Approval of Debt... Thu, 16 May 2013 15:39:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519943&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519944&source=RSS BOULDER - Students and staffers at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics worked around the clock to get the disabled Kepler space telescope to its current safe mode state in space.The Kepler spacecraft has suffered a disabled reaction wheel, a device that keeps it oriented in a... Thu, 16 May 2013 15:21:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519944&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519945&source=RSS BOULDER - REC Solar Inc. has completed the installation of a 500-kilowatt community solar project in Boulder.The Cowdery Meadows Solar Array consists of approximately 2,000 solar panels and occupies 3.5 acres at 1600 66th St. It is the first community solar project completed under Xcel Energy's Solar Rewards Community... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:59:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519945&source=RSS http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519946&source=RSS BOULDER - A Boulder-based startup that makes educational toys for children has signed up to receive mentorship from the Innovation Center of the Rockies.Kodo Kids, founded by Chris Hume, will receive support from advisers of the organization that supports entrepreneurs.The advisory board consists of David... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:00 EST http://www.bcbr.com/article/20130516/NEWS/130519946&source=RSS