Author: Danika Worthington
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Airbnb to collect Colorado sales tax, easing burden on hosts
Home-sharing service Airbnb will collect Colorado state sales tax online starting Wednesday, simplifying a structure that temporarily turned hosts into the taxman. But Denver hosts can keep tax collector on their resumes until the end of June, when the city hopes to have new rules in place allowing third-party vendors to collect its 10.75 percent lodger’s…
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Colorado selected as one of 35 worldwide semifinalists to build a hyperloop
Colorado is one of 35 worldwide semifinalists vying to build a hyperloop, proposing a 40-mile high-speed link between Denver International Airport and Greeley. Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One received 2,600 proposals in five months to build the levitation-based technology that would carry passengers and cargo at speeds of up to 700 mph, according to the Colorado…
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Video shows multi-vehicle pileup on Interstate 70
A dash cam video shows the multi-vehicle pileup that closed down a snowy Interstate 70 Wednesday morning. The video, which was posted on YouTube Wednesday, is from an airport shuttle van heading east about a quarter of a mile east of the Eisenhower Tunnel. It shows a truck passing the van and then suddenly breaking, fishtailing…
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Women in Colorado made 17.2 percent less than men did in 2015
Women are slowly edging closer to men’s pay in Colorado, but still fall short. Their median weekly earnings in 2015 were 17.2 percent less, according to a recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s a similar story nationwide. The smallest median weekly wage gap between the sexes was in Hawaii, where women…
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Doughnut shop frequented by fallen trooper donating Saturday’s profits to his kids
Lora’s Donuts and Bakery Shop is honoring fallen trooper and former regular Cody James Donahue by donating 100 percent of its profits Saturday to his two young daughters, aged 7 and 10. Donahue, 34, was struck and killed by a U.S. Foods commercial truck driver in November on Interstate 25 south of Castle Rock. The…
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Liquidator’s deadline for Mile High stadium naming rights passes without a lead bidder
National liquidator expects a lead bidder by the end of the week
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Sports Authority is selling everything — on Craigslist
Looking for a new computer monitor? Sports Authority can help you out. The Englewood-based retailer, which filed for bankruptcy protection in March, closed its headquarters in May and is in the process of liquidating 460 stores. Next on the chopping block are office supplies and equipment at the home office. The company did what anyone does when they’re trying to clear…