News: Parenting magazines vie for readership

FORT COLLINS – First it was business newspaper wars. Now parenting magazines will compete head to head on the Northern Colorado battlefield. American Parent Communications LLC has been formed by Maureen Regan Smith and other investors to publish parenting magazines not only inColorado, but across the nation. The company already has acquired Colorado Parent, which will serve as a base for Northern Colorado Parent and Southern Colorado Parent. Thenorthern magazine will serve Fort Collins, Greeley and Loveland. It will compete with the newly-established Front Range Parent magazine being published by Scott Titterington of Poudre Canyon. He also ownsPoudre Canyon Press.…