By SEAN MAHER November 23, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. Remember the early days of COVID when we thought things might be back to normal by Easter? Then we hoped for the Fourth of July and then…
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Looks Can Be Deceiving
Like many of you, I have enjoyed the expanded outdoor dining areas downtown and all over Boulder this summer. Since it rarely rains here anymore, it is a pretty good bet that the warm evenings…
Retail and restaurants after COVID-19
The tulips on the Pearl Street Mall have been spectacular this spring. Of course, those bulbs were planted last fall before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19 and Corona was still just a beer that…
Local Economic Impacts will be Tough
Last week we started to see hopeful signs on the COVID pandemic. China is starting to return to normal. Up to 20 potential treatments and vaccines are in trials around the world. Dr. Fauci told…
This Too Shall Pass
Last week, I attended the Boulder Chamber’s Celebration of Leadership event. As always, it was a great evening, but there was definitely a cloud of anxiety hanging over the room. It was also likely the…
Without strategy, Boulder will keep growing older, richer
I attended the Boulder Economic Forecast last month and some of the news was predictable, but some was quite unexpected. Elizabeth Garner who is our Colorado state demographer dropped some of the biggest surprises on…
Shop Small and Local This Holiday Season
They snuck up as they always do but the holidays are upon us. Holiday shopping officially kicks off this week with Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. Even though the shopping season is shorter this…
A Reason to Give Deadheads a Hug
If you were anywhere near the CU campus or downtown Boulder over the weekend, you no doubt saw a lot of Deadheads in their signature Tie Dye shirts and sandals. You may have been one…
Boulder is Not as Weird as We Think
My brother was in town a few weeks ago for the Bolder Boulder. As he read the Camera one morning over coffee, he laughed about the effort to limit house sizes in the city. “Only…
The Disruption Is Gaining Speed
Over the last few years, I’ve written several times on the coming disruption in transportation thanks to autonomous vehicles. When I first wrote about it, the big news was the testing of self-parking cars. Of…
Profile of Vail Resorts CEO
With ski season well under way in the Western U.S., the forecast for Vail Resorts is sunny and balmy. The nation’s largest owner and operator of ski resorts recently scored a big win by acquiring…
RRC executives buy back consulting firm
BOULDER – RRC Associates LLC announced Friday that it is spinning off from Tennessee-based corporate parent Smith Travel Research Inc., five years after the Boulder firm was acquired. Full article…