RUSTIC IS FINE IF YOU HAVE THE PLACE TO YOURSELF
“This place has been lost in time … but the people who ski here don’t mind because the lack of crowds makes up for it.” – Brian Long, special events director for Sunlight Mountain Resort, about the ski resort near Glenwood Springs
AN EMPHASIS ON KEEPING THINGS LEAN
“This is a challenging, low-margin industry in the midst of the most challenging conditions of its life.” – Sean McHugh, spokesman for Greeley-based Swift and Co., about the beef and pork processor’s need to lay off 300 workers
WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE
“It’s being able to see. Every place where terrain can block a radar site from seeing in an area, you have a challenge.” – Greg Dyer, airspace manager at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Denver Air Traffic Control Center, about the challenge of landing airplanes in mountainous areas. Colorado is lobbying for a new radar-like system that will help air traffic controllers land planes at crowded mountain airports more quickly and efficiently.
