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Meanwhile, just to the north of Denver is Greeley, site of the state's school of education, strong-boned churches and the richly landscaped homes of Colorado's Front Range technocrats. Yet for the fiscal year that ended June 30, the demand for emergency food in Greeley shot...
...swelling the ranks of the hungry? Many are neither jobless nor homeless. "It's the working poor," says Leona Martens, director of the Weld Food Bank in Greeley. In the Colorado town, those asking for help range from seasonal farmworkers sidelined by bad weather to families hit by sudden expenses like doctor bills or new car batteries. Says Barbara Mocnik, executive director of a food bank in Newport News: "The job market is there. The income isn't." Many of the new part-time jobs in Newport News pay so little that they cannot cover basic expenses...
...tough is it? Western Pacific, a two-year-old company based in Colorado Springs, Colo., is a good example. Last year Western Pacific chalked up a $23.7 million net loss and in the process jettisoned both its management and its business plan. The company tried to avoid a head-on battle with United Airlines in its Denver hub. But Western Pacific was also missing out on the flush business market that connects there. "A lot of low-fare carriers make the mistake of trying to hide in the weeds," says Western Pacific CEO Robert Peiser, former CEO of FoxMeyer Drug...
...ridges, and a million visitors pass through each year. Though still rural, the county has a choice: either it finds a way to shape the sprawl, channeling development into existing growth areas and preserving open space, or it loses its high-lonesome charm and becomes, like so many Colorado valleys, overbuilt, overcrowded and irrevocably scarred...
With matching-grant money from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), a conservation program funded by the state lottery, they will use land-preservation tools called conservation easements to pay ranchers for the development rights to their property, then place those rights in permanent trusts. By selling development rights instead of the property, ranchers raise capital while saving open space and hanging on to their land. And because the property can never be developed, it loses half its market value. Thus ranchers can suddenly afford to pay taxes and keep the land in the family. Gunnison isn't the first community...