Ride-sharing service Uber has agreed to increase the frequency of its criminal background checks of drivers in Colorado after state regulators discovered last year that the company failed to disqualify some drivers with felony criminal convictions. The move is part of a settlement stemming from an $8.9 million fine levied by the state Public Utilities […]
Tamara Chuang
Tamara writes about businesses, technology and the local economy for The Colorado Sun. She also writes the "What's Working" column, available as a free newsletter at coloradosun.com/getww. Contact her at cosun.com/heyww, or tamara@coloradosun.com or on Twitter at @gadgetress
Posted inBusiness, News, Outdoors, Transportation
CDOT is looking for a great idea to keep cars from crashing into wildlife
If you’ve got a great idea on how to stop a deer from leaping into headlights, you just may help Colorado solve one of its worst rural-traffic nightmares: collisions with wildlife. The state’s Department of Transportation is challenging the public to come up with ideas that use technology to address this issue. According to the […]
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Denver Startup Week isn’t just for Denverites. It’s drawing people from across the U.S.
Vince Kadlubek brought a Meow Wolf crew to Denver Startup Week two years ago. They left set on the idea that Denver would be the first place the Santa Fe, N.M., arts collective would expand its immersive art venue. “I really wasn’t thinking about Denver as an expansion city. I was thinking about Austin and […]
Posted inBusiness, News, Politics and Government
Colorado company may lose 1,000 jobs from tariffs, and others are prepping for a prolonged trade war
From frozen cuts of pork to leather jackets, tariffs on more than $200 billion of Chinese imports take effect on Monday. On the same day, tariffs on another $60 billion in products headed in the other direction get a retaliatory hike, as imposed by the Chinese government. After more than a few rounds in the […]
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Are you “crypto curious?” A beginner blockchain event wants to help Coloradans prep for the next big technology
On Monday, Colorado state Sen. Angela Williams plans to buy her first bitcoin, or piece of one, and then spend it right away. Perhaps on a glass of Jack Rabbit Hill wine. Or maybe a T-shirt from Denver designer Atomic Child. But instead of buying cryptocurrency online in the seedy, digital underworld of yesteryear […]
Posted inBusiness, Energy, Environment, News, Transportation
An electric car for under $10,000? Used EVs becoming a more affordable, but risky, new market
When Maria DiBiase Eisemann went to Tynan’s Nissan in Fort Collins to turn in her leased Nissan Leaf last fall, she left the dealership as owner of the same electric vehicle. But it wasn’t for her. It was for teenage daughter. “It’s the greatest thing because it doesn’t go far, and she doesn’t have to […]
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Meet the robots and other contraptions making Colorado’s recycling more efficient
Clarke may be a little stiff, but he picks out milk and juice cartons from a pile of moving trash better than any man or woman at the Altogether Recycling plant in Adams County. The discriminating robot, named after sci-fi icon Arthur C. Clarke, can also work all day and night, if necessary. In another […]
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Colorado’s largest recycling company — finally — will be able to recycle Starbucks and other coffee cups
Alpine Waste & Recycling, Colorado’s largest recycling company, has figured out what to do with the perfect cup of coffee: Recycle it. Starting as early as Oct. 1, the company will begin picking up paper cups from coffee shops and household customers and transport them to a Wisconsin mill for proper recycling. The deal makes […]
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Recycling in Colorado is tedious, cost-prohibitive, voluntary — and evolving
Brent Hildebrand, a vice president at Alpine Waste & Recycling, sets on a table a mangled piece of metal. In a previous life, it was a horseshoe. “That little piece of metal caused our equipment to be down for a couple of hours. That’s huge for us. We just couldn’t find it, it was so […]
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Centennial just became Colorado’s largest city to launch an alternative broadband service. What about the other 100+ that voted to control their internet destiny?
Updated on Nov. 7, 2018: Nearly 20 more cities, counties and municipalities voted to opt out of the broadband law. See a complete list in the chart at the bottom of this story. Ting Internet turned on gigabit broadband service to its first customers in Centennial last week. A ceremony was held in the front […]