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Bear Smart Durango, a local nonprofit, would like to thank Coutts and Clark Western Foundation for its $5,000 contribution toward general operating support and Bear Smart’s Electric Fencing Incentive program.…
What's Up Downtown
Here’s a primer on Durango’s business district
Thousands of BIDs exist nationwide. These quasi-governmental entities have taxing authority to generate funds for their districts. How a BID spends its dollars takes a variety of forms depending on…
Business
Lots of meanings behind free Windows 10 launch
Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuted Wednesday. Microsoft is offering the upgrade free to owners of Windows 7 and Windows 8. It has completely skipped over Windows 9 after…
Business
Sales of existing homes hit 8-year high
Realtor Stephan Marshall, top, shows a home to potential buyer Sasha Martinez in Pacifica, Calif. Home sales have hit an eight-year high, but real estate agents say there are not…
Business
Home Depot offers $1.6B for supply company
Home Depot wants to move further into online sales and installation services. Last week, it announced plans to purchase Interline Brands, a building and maintenance supply company.Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press The…
Business
Tight supply of new homes puts damper on June sales
New-home sales dropped in June, suggesting that the real estate market could be cooling off.Mark Humphrey/Associated Press The Commerce Department said Friday that new-home sales slumped 6.8 percent last month…
Business
Humanity’s family tree more crowded than thought
This jawbone found in Ethiopia may be evidence that another member of the early human family may have lived at the same time as “Lucy,” according to Yohannes Haile-Selassie, lead…
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Kickstarter campaign seeks to save historic Apollo spacesuit
The Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum is hoping to raise $500,000 from a kickstarter to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on his historic Apollo 11 mission. Lisa…
Business
There’s no place like home, or is there?
Space telescope discovers what could be ‘close cousin’ to Earth
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Tipton: Federal red tape hurts small banks
Alpine Bank executive says financial reform increases staffing costs
Business
Mancos beer gets bottled
MBC held the grand opening of its Public House and taproom in October 2014, and in nine months has served more than 30 recipes on tap, along with several emerging…
Business
Business Briefs
Petre and Angela Maianu are offering a collection of antiques, some several-hundred-years-old, in association with Walk on Wood Hardwood Floors. The flooring business is owned and operated by their son,…
Business
Oil guru sees a return to $100 crude
Gary Ross, the founder of consultants PIRA Energy Group, said oil markets aren’t nearly as oversupplied as many believe and spare capacity is tight since Saudi Arabia is pumping all…
Business
Conference invites businesswomen
Hands-on session to sharpen business skills will be offered. In addition, exhibitor tables, free one-on-one consulting and a breakout session on regional resources will be offered. The keynote speaker will…
Money Savvy
Put profits first, then watch business grow
I’m not asking how big your business is or how much revenue it’s generating or how many employees you have. You know, those typical measures of success. The origin of…
Business
Rangeland north of Dolores ranches faces changes
U.S. Forest Service proposes allotment revisions, more cowboys
Business
Live in a Porsche? Designer labels draw Miami home buyers
It takes something more audacious to sell beachfront property these days to the global ultra-wealthy who arrive in Miami with millions to spend on second or third homes. It takes…
Business
Changes coming to real estate transactions
The Truth-in-Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, TRID, set strict deadlines for disclosures that lenders need to provide to consumers. For example, lenders can be held liable…
Business
Rental market is changing across U.S.
The rental market is shifting across all age groups, not just for millennials. In fact, a new report shows that 42 percent of the people responsible for the growth in…
Business
Moving is a lot easier with right furnishings
Millennials – those born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, approximately – are a mobile generation, according to a study released in March by the U.S. Census Bureau.…
Business
Reformers target mortgage deduction
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, has suggested a possible tax reform that would limit the mortgage tax deduction to first homes only.Brian Witte/Associated Press “We should…
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Japanese automakers no longer setting the pace
Kia jumped to second place in J.d. Power and Associates’ latest survey of new vehicle quality. The survey company credited Kia’s improving survey results to the auto company’s bring consumers…
Business
Apartments fueling U.S. housing market
New home construction fell in the Midwest and the West in June, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Housing starts were up, however, because of a 28.6 percent jump in construction…