CLOSINGS

Boulder-based Agloves, a trade name of Hindsight Investments LLC, has closed operations. The mother-daughter team of Jennifer and Jean Spencer, who co-founded the company, decided it was better to close the business than to lose their personal relationship with each other, daughter Jean Spencer said. The company’s product, Agloves, have silver knitted into the fingertips to allow users to keep their gloves on while operating touchscreens on mobile devices such as iPhones. The silver-nylon MORE

We said it before ballots were even cast on Boulder’s path toward creating a municipal utility: “Any expenditure in the hundreds of millions of dollars should be explicitly approved by voters, not authorized without voters knowing the actual cost” (Boulder County Business Report, Sept. 30, 2011).

That was one of our main concerns with Ballot Issues 2B and 2C, which went to voters in November 2011. Ballot Issue 2B increased and extended the city’s utility occupation tax, while 2C authorized the MORE

ADVERTISING, COMMUNICATIONS

Three advertising and marketing professionals from the Boulder Valley have been named to a team that will create a brand identity for Colorado. Todd Berger, Justin Fuller and Mona Hasan will join nine others from around the state to develop visual and verbal branding concepts to present to the public for feedback in July. Berger is a graphic designer and co-founder of Berger MORE

Robbing Peter to pay Paul

To the editor

For the record, I opt in for the city of Fort Collins’ wind-energy program, raising the electric portion of both our business and home utility bills 10 percent to 15 percent each month. That is a personal decision that does not affect my neighbors’ pocket books.

The editorial published May 10-23, Hick: Sign bill on rural renewables, contains certain logical missteps. By requiring energy providers to increase electricity from MORE

Even if it’s not in the “Guinness Book of World Records,” a recent electric vehicle test-drive event at Level 3 Communications Inc. in Broomfield certainly counts as a record nonetheless.

Some 200 people drove Chevy Volts, Nissan Leafs, an electric pick-up truck from VIA Motors and BYD E-6, a hybrid sports utility vehicle, at the event.

Folks from the Drive SunShine Institute signed in each and every drive, recorded the cars’ mileage and snapped photos, said Ken Beitel, advisory board MORE