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Mounting debt, legal issues threaten Future Legends’ future.

Citing high costs and a shortage of skilled press operators, Prairie Mountain Media will close its 15-year-old, 60,000-square-foot printing plant in Berthoud and move the production of newspapers and other publications to The Denver Post’s production facility.

The Loveland-based Lighting eMotors told the federal Securities and Exchange Commission last month it plans to sell its remaining assets with the proceeds going to creditors.

A union representing workers at both Kroger and Albertsons locations in Colorado and Wyoming, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, called the announcement “devastating." General council for the union Matt Shechter said he’s been getting calls from members worried about store consolidation, layoffs and rising food prices.

Days ahead of a shareholder vote at Spirit Airlines over a proposed buyout by rival budget carrier Frontier, the vote is being cancelled for a fourth time due to a lack of support from investors.

Frontier CEO Barry Biffle said in a letter made public Monday that if the merger still lacks enough support from Spirit shareholders by a scheduled vote this Friday, that the voting be delayed until July 27.

A new report evaluates the business climate for LGBTQ+ people in every state, and most of the Mountain West ranks on the low end.

As Colorado emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, economic experts are bullish about the state’s recovery in the coming year. But long before vaccination drives were rolled out, a lot of Coloradans began launching new businesses on their own.

Last week, Gov. Jared Polis downgraded the 33 Colorado counties that were classified as Level Red on the state’s COVID-19 status dial to Level Orange. On social media, Polis said he was trying to walk the difficult line between the public health crisis and the economic crisis. But the limited loosening of restrictions will not be enough to provide meaningful relief to many restaurant owners in Northern Colorado.

As the pandemic wears on, leaders across the country are looking at how to economically recover after the COVID-19 pandemic. Some in the Mountain West...