A Denver Nuggets superfan known as the “Red Pant Man” has been accused of squandering the profits from his single-branch Lakewood bank on “a veritable fleet of aircraft.” Michael Quagliano, an Illinois native who lives in Florida, is the majority…
Read MoreXcel Energy expects heat bills to be 35% lower than last winter
Xcel Energy’s winter forecast is for higher heating bills starting in October, but about 35% lower than last winter, when high natural gas prices and cold weather led to the doubling and tripling of some Coloradans’ monthly charges. Xcel customers…
Read MoreFour-year-long fib costs real estate attorney her law license
A business professor and real estate attorney at some of the city’s top firms has been barred from practicing law for 30 months because she carried on a years-long lie. Cindy Lowery-Graber, who has been a lawyer in Colorado since…
Read MoreMarshall fire area: Residents face Xcel delays for solar hookups
7People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damages, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance and mortgage companies as they rebuild their homes and lives. Those who…
Read MoreUse your phone as a pocket tutor for study on the go
Autumn is edging closer, and the return to a more regular office schedule looms for many people — and with it, the waiting time for transportation, meetings and appointments. Games, reading, social-media scrolls or just zoning out are common ways…
Read MoreBan or embrace? Colleges wrestle with AI-generated admissions essays.
Rick Clark, executive director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his staff spent weeks this summer pretending to be high school students using artificial intelligence chatbots to fill out college applications. The admissions officers each took…
Read MoreWrestling With Inequality, Some Conservatives Redraw Economic Blueprint
More Republicans are coming to the view that economic inequality, or a lack of social mobility, is a problem in the United States — and that more can be done to enable families to attain or regain a middle-class life….
Read MoreChina’s Biggest Homebuilder Reels as Economy Slows
When Country Garden, the biggest developer in China’s increasingly troubled real estate sector, published its annual report in April, the cover design exuded hope: a phoenix spreading its wings. The company said the image showed that China’s economy was “back…
Read MoreWe Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.
Hey, ChatGPT, can you help me write my college admissions essays? Absolutely! Please provide me with the essay prompts and any relevant information about yourself, your experiences, and your goals. undefined A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating…
Read MoreTaxes, Drugs and … TikTok?
On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main claim to fame is that it’s home to the state’s…
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