Cortez gasoline prices higher than state average
Average retail gasoline prices in Colorado have fallen 2.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.07 this weekend, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 2,158 gas outlets in Colorado. This compares with a national decline of 3.9 cents per gallon last week to $2.99 a gallon.
Monday in Cortez, prices ranged from $3.11 on the east side of U.S. 160 to $3.12 at Chevron, on the west.
Prices this weekend were 21.9 cents per gallon lower than the same time a year ago and 37.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The U.S. average has fallen 33.0 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 27.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
Mercy Medical receives ‘A’ rating for safety
Mercy Regional Medical Center was honored with an “A” grade on the fall 2014 Hospital Safety Score, which rates how hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections.
The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of experts about patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group, an industry watchdog. The hospital safety rating is peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety. The rating is designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.
The score is derived using 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single letter score – A, B, C, D or F – representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe.
Colorado ski season off to slow start
Businesses say Colorado’s ski season is getting off to a slow start this year.
Frisco Lodge owner Susan Wentworth says early November is usually a slow time of year but right now even bookings for the upcoming busy Thanksgiving holiday are not looking as strong as years past.
Warm and dry weather delayed Copper and Keystone from a Halloween opening which would have driven the first weekend of November’s ski sales around town. The weather has been so nice that bikes are still rolling at the door at Rebel Sports.
Bank made few mortgage loans to Hispanics
A former board member says a bank formed to help Latinos has done little mortgage lending to that community.
The Denver Post reports Solera National Bank approved nearly $257 million for home purchases or refinancing existing mortgages through 2013, but most have been to non-Latinos.
Former board member Basil Sabbah says the goal of the bank was to increase the number of loans to Latinos, but that did not happen.
Marchino receives designation from IEDC
Laura Lewis Marchino, assistant director of Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado recently earned the designation of Certified Economic Developer, a national recognition that denotes a mastery of principal skills in economic development.
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