A $2.8 million study evaluating the feasibility of high-speed rail from Fort Collins to Pueblo has identified five potential routes that could carry more than 10 million passengers annually.

The Interregional Connectivity Study (ICS), launched last spring by the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration, comes as Colorado is emerging from the Great Recession and growth has begun to pick MORE

CONTRACTS

Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Co. Inc. signed agreements with seven distribution partners in Florida with plans to start selling beer in the state July 29. Gold Coast Distributing, JJ Taylor, Florida Distributing, Cone Distributing, Goldring Gulf and Champion Brands are all Miller Coors houses while Daytona Beverage is in the Anheuser-Busch network. New Belgium will roll 22-ounce MORE

As tufts of green began to peek through the brown, dry land, spring’s warm weather brought hope of calves running through the fields and fresh fruits and vegetables growing abundant. Colorado farmers and ranchers often are overlooked for the vital role they play in all our lives, and springtime is the perfect time to honor them for their contribution to our way of life.

Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, MORE

No one likes over-intrusive government, certainly not conservatives and sometimes not even the most liberal liberals.

Gallup, in a survey in 2010, found record-high percentages of Americans who were critical of the size and scope of government. Nearly 60 percent of those polled said they thought the federal government had too much power, which was up eight percentage points from the previous year.

I doubt those figures have gone in any direction but up in the past couple years.

So, could it be MORE

HEALTH CARE

Roberta Brooks joined Banner Health Clinic in Greeley as a certified physician assistant specializing in gynecology. A graduate of Wichita (Kan.) State University, she has more than 25 years of experience.


HIGH TECH

Connecting Point, a Greeley-based provider of technology consulting and services including networking, telephony, security, managed MORE

When a 25 percent decrease in funding threatened to kill Streetmosphere’s entire last month of summer street music, dance, visual art and theater performances, the nonprofit group knew it had to find a more efficient way to raise funds than an open guitar case.

The art program – created by Beet Street in 2010 – ran its first Kickstarter campaign in May, and surpassed its $17,000 goal with the help of more MORE

Loveland-based Colorado Precast Concrete Inc. has finished a project that required its workers to look into the past and create the likeness of something only seen in films such as “Jurasic Park”: 6-foot-by-3-foot dinosaur eggs.

At each stop on a bus route that stretches along Colorado Highway 82 between Aspen and Glenwood Springs will sit a decorative replica of a dinosaur egg, each weighing 2,700 pounds, MORE