Author: Mark Samuelson
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Colorado’s Boom Supersonic loses its engine partner, Rolls-Royce
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup at Centennial Airport that’s been developing a vision of a new supersonic airliner, is parting ways with Rolls-Royce, the jet engine manufacturer that it had listed as a partner on the project. Rolls-Royce built the Olympus engines that powered the Anglo-French Concorde, the supersonic jetliner that resembled Boom’s sleek, four-engine…
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Colorado’s Boom Supersonic loses its engine partner, Rolls-Royce
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup at Centennial Airport that’s been developing a vision of a new supersonic airliner, is parting ways with Rolls-Royce, the jet engine manufacturer that it had listed as a partner on the project. Rolls-Royce had built the Olympus engines that powered the Anglo-French Concorde, the supersonic jetliner that resembled Boom’s sleek,…
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With raised gambling limits, Colorado casinos mark record revenues
As the pandemic wanes, gamblers venturing up to Colorado’s three mountain casino towns are wagering record sums at the machines and tables, totaling just short of $1 billion last year, according to a report released last week by the Colorado Department of Revenue. In August, the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission approved distribution of $148.6…
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With raised gambling limits, Colorado casinos mark record revenues
As the pandemic wanes, gamblers venturing up to Colorado’s three mountain casino towns are wagering record sums at the machines and tables, totaling just short of $1 billion last year, according to a report released this week by the Colorado Department of Revenue. Earlier this month, the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission approved distribution of…
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New access to Denver International Airport coming — the Aerotropolis Parkway
Three decades after the runways were graded across the empty plains northeast of downtown, developers and investors are taking a new look at Denver International Airport and they’ve set off an explosion of growth in the countryside nearby. The airport’s 54-square-mile expanse, including huge tracts remaining for future runways, lies in Denver. But the lion’s…
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American Airlines to buy 20 Boom Supersonic jets
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup that’s at work at Centennial Airport on a 21st century vision of a supersonic airliner, received a ringing endorsement this week from the world’s largest air carrier, American Airlines. In a joint statement, American and Boom announced that the carrier will make a nonrefundable deposit on as many as 20 of Boom’s…
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Housing continues to slow, but Denver is still a seller’s market
National media are beginning to talk about a transition from a seller’s market to a buyer’s market, as home prices dip with rising mortgage rates. But don’t expect that shift to happen anytime soon in Denver. The median price of a single-family home in Denver stood at $723,750 in July, down from $750,000 a month…
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Colorado pot sales are trending well below their mid-pandemic high
Coloradans and visitors to the state are spending nowhere near as much on marijuana products as they did at the height of the pandemic when many people were confined to home and cut off from other entertainment. That’s a conclusion suggested by the latest round of cannabis sales reports released Tuesday by the Colorado Department…
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Returning to normal is the goal for new Fort Carson center that treats brain injury
With the start of the war in Iraq in 2003 came a growing awareness of traumatic brain injury — TBI — that often resulted from enemy use of roadside bombs, IEDs. Over the past two decades, U.S. forces have suffered some 454,000 cases of TBI. But progress is being made not just in treating those…
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Denver honors Cathy Reynolds, city’s first councilwoman
After searching for a fitting way to memorialize Denver’s first woman to be elected to a City Council seat, the council on Wednesday formally renamed its chambers in the City and County Building to honor Cathy Reynolds, who died in 2020. “She was really a star,” said former council member Stephanie Foote, who served with…