Milk money: Dallas-based Dean Foods (which owns Robinson Dairy, Horizon Organic and White Wave Foods in Colorado) today reports revenues of $2.48 billion for the second-quarter but a net income drop to $28.9 million from $81.6 million, largely due to restructuring costs. White Wave sales were $307 million, up 7 percent.
Green ink: Vail Resorts’ announcement that it would buy enough wind power to run its five resorts (four in Colorado) and other operations appeared in more than 100 news outlets across the country, according to Google News.
Paycheck anxiety: Colorado’s new laws blocking illegal immigrants from getting some state benefits, and Chicago’s move to force big-boxers like Wal-Mart to pay a $10 minimum wage by 2010 isn’t “simply populist anger. It’s a particular anxiety that people have about their paychecks,” writes David Leonhardt of The New York Times in a column today on wage stagnation.
TABOR Returns: Bangor Daily News reports that Maine business leaders recently received an anti-TABOR letter from Concerned Colorado Business Leaders, a group that includes the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Denver Partnership and the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association: “TABOR is a proven failure in Colorado. We strongly encourage that you do not repeat Colorado’s mistake.”
The kicker: A British pub called The Signal Box Inn in Lincolnshire claims to be the smallest bar in the world, measuring 64 square feet (exluding the beer garden). That would make Sam’s Bar, at 22 N Tejon St. in Colorado Springs, seem downright roomy at 109 square feet.
