CSBJ Daily

Two Colorado Springs organizations that promote tourism earned a matching grant of $15,000 from the Colorado Tourism Office.
Experience Colorado Springs at Pikes Peak, the convention and visitors’ bureau, and the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, or COPPeR, will use the shared grant money to enhance PeakRadar.com, a cultural activities […]

The Governor’s Energy Office has awarded $350,000 in grants to eight organizations for “New Energy Economic Development,” or NEED, efforts.
NEED grants must be used to develop emerging technologies that could attract additional investment to Colorado’s growing energy-efficiency and renewable-energy industries.
Tom Plant, director of the energy office, said the grant program […]

The Associated Press
NEW YORK – The nation’s retailers delivered more evidence of a stumbling economy, as merchants including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported weak January results, extending a malaise that has deepened since the holiday shopping season. The disappointing sales figures made it clear that consumers wrestling with high gas and food […]

Life and health insurers had a strong first three quarters of 2007, and property and casualty insurers are continuing to hold on, even as profits are dropping, according to SNL Financial’s statutory insurance data.
The life insurance industry earned $28 billion during the first nine months of 2007, up $3 billion […]