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Colorado legislature passes protections for ride-sharing passengers in hit-and-runs
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In September 2020, Brian Fritts was riding in the back of a Lyft in Denver when another car crashed into the vehicle carrying him, running Fritts and his driver off the road and flipping the vehicle. Fritts woke up in a hospital with a broken jaw and multiple broken vertebrae in his neck. He had two…
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Committee rejects bill to require customer opt-in for utensils, condiments from restaurants
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A House committee rejected legislation that, if passed, would have required restaurants and food delivery services to ask customers if they want single-use items, such as utensils and condiments, instead of providing them automatically. The committee unanimously voted to indefinitely postpone House Bill 1134 on Wednesday following an hour and a half of testimony from…
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Colorado could let city taxi cabs operate more like Uber
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DENVER – Colorado lawmakers are working on legislation that would let city taxi cab companies compete on prices with Uber and Lyft. House Bill 1320 would deregulate cab pricing and other aspects of the business, without taking away requirements for permitting, safe vehicles, background checks for drivers and other consumer protections, says its sponsor, Rep. Dan…
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Out West Roundup: Arizona governor suspends Uber from autonomous testing
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Arizona Arizona governor suspends Uber from autonomous testing PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey suspended Uber’s self-driving vehicle testing privileges last week in the wake of a pedestrian fatality in a Phoenix suburb. Ducey said in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised concerns about the San Francisco-based company’s…
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Q&A w/Jimmy Sengenberger: ‘Most likely to become president’? He’ll settle for being the next Rush Limbaugh
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Jimmy Sengenberger was that way-older-than-his-years, way-ahead-of-the-pack kind of kid you sort of admired and sort of envied – and, admit it, sort of resented – back in middle school. He began listening to Rush on the radio at 12 and was attending Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club breakfasts by 13. He was putting together high…
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Audit: Trust of Lyft and Uber could be costing Denver airport money
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Parking is the second-largest revenue driver for Denver International Airport, but according to City Auditor Timothy O’Brien, lax oversight with Lyft and Uber could be letting money slip through the cracks. In a report released Thursday, O’Brien found the airport charges Lyft and Uber $2.60 for each pickup and drop off at DIA. But the…
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The best and worst of public relations in 2017 — minus Denver’s Ink! Coffee debacle
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Who made good in 2017 and who ended the year with a whole mess of egg on their faces? Jeremy Story of GroundFloor Media, who blogs under DenverPRblog, has now put out his list of the best public relations and biggest snafus of 2017. Story’s “best of” list was mighty short for 2017, with just…
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Former GOP congressional candidate Casper Stockham takes stock of gentrification
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Uber driver Casper Stockham ran for Congress and lost last year, but he hasn’t lost sight of a campaign promise to help build up Five Points around the families who settled there. A first-timer, Stockham didn’t know enough about campaigning, how to get his message out and how to raise the millions of dollars in…
