Greeley • Fort Collins • Loveland • Longmont • Boulder
We write about the people running businesses in Northern Colorado.
Short profiles, interviews and sourced briefings on the owners, executives and decisions shaping Weld, Larimer and Boulder counties. Being featured is free.
If software touches your hiring, Colorado's new AI law applies to you. The clock starts January 1.
SB 26-189 repealed the 2024 AI Act and replaced it with a lighter framework. The impact assessments are gone. The notice duties are not, and they reach employers of every size.
Colorado builders have the work. What they can’t find is the crew.
Colorado contractors report credential and skill gaps well above national rates. In Weld, where one job in ten is in the trades, retirements, enforcement and a new data center are squeezing the same crews.
A Class 4 roof costs a few thousand more. Here’s when it actually pays you back.
Impact-resistant shingles add $2,000 to $5,000 to a re-roof. Insurer discounts run from 5 to 25 percent, none of the shingles IBHS tested earned its top score, and state grants start in 2027 at the earliest.
Weld's food bank is spending ten times more on food. Local employers are now the swing donor.
Federal deliveries fell and demand rose. The Greeley food bank now buys nearly ten times the food it did five years ago, and local employers are the swing donor.
Weld just overtook Larimer. Here's who is moving in, and what it means for your business.
Weld added more residents last year than any county in Colorado and now outnumbers Larimer. Three of the state’s five fastest-growing cities are inside its borders.
Colorado's $7.5 billion venture boom is building factories up I-25.
Colorado venture funding hit $7.46 billion in 2025. The rounds are in Boulder and Denver; the manufacturing is showing up in Loveland, Berthoud and Longmont.
The $16.7 million giving engine most Northern Colorado owners have never heard of
NoCo Foundation granted a record $16.7 million last year on assets that have nearly tripled since 2017. Stacked state credits can cut the real cost of a business gift roughly in half.
The Region In Four Numbers
What is actually moving in Northern Colorado
Each one is from a briefing on this site, and each briefing links every figure to its source.
Who You Will Hear From
Meet the person who runs the process
Morgan Hale
Editorial Coordinator
Morgan lines up interviews, sends quotes and figures back to the people we write about so they can check them, and makes sure the details are right before a story runs. If you are being featured, she is the person who will email you, and the person to ask when you have a question about how any of this works.
Coverage
What we write about
Six beats. We picked them because what happens inside these businesses tends to show up in the town around them.
Insurance
Agencies, carriers and brokers working out how to price hail, wildfire and farm risk out here.
Business Leadership
Owners and executives deciding about growth, suppliers, ownership and who takes over.
Agriculture & Water
Weld County operations, water rights, crop risk and the businesses that move the harvest.
Finance & Capital
Who is lending, who is investing, and what it costs to grow a business between Boulder and Greeley.
Manufacturing
Shops and plants up and down the I-25 corridor, from precision parts to structural steel.
Community Impact
Workforce programs, downtown investment, and where a business starts mattering to its town.
Where We Cover
Weld, Larimer and Boulder counties
Wellington down to Boulder, and east from the foothills out across the Weld County plain. If your business is in here, we cover you.
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From the Editor
What we ask about
Most business profiles get written after everything worked out, which makes the whole thing sound inevitable. Nice to read. Not much help if you are the one still deciding.
So we ask different questions. What were the other options. What did this cost you. What broke in the first year. What would you do differently. Those answers are harder to get and they make for a less flattering story, but they are the ones another owner in Greeley or Loveland can actually use.
Claire BennettManaging Editor
Why Work With Us
What you get
We are a small independent publication. We do not sell ads and we do not sell coverage.
It is free
We do not charge for a story, a profile or an event listing, and you cannot pay us to write one.
It is short
Around a thousand words, usually one clear idea. Something you can send a customer without apologizing for the length.
You read it first
We send quotes and numbers back to you before anything runs. No surprises.
We ask real questions
What it cost, what went wrong, what you would change. Not just the good parts.
We are actually local
Denver papers cover Denver. We live here and we cover Weld, Larimer and Boulder.
We fix our mistakes in public
Corrections go on the story itself, dated, saying what we got wrong.
Get In Touch
Want to be in the magazine?
Send us a story idea, an interview request or an event. We hear from owners, chambers and industry groups all over Weld, Larimer and Boulder counties. It costs nothing and we decide what runs.
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