Boulder has only itself to blame for loss of companies

Weld County can be trusted

That’s the overriding message from the steady stream of businesses making their way into the county’s business-friendly environs, from Magnelab, which is moving from Boulder to Del Camino, to Boulder-based Applied Films Corp., which is expected to make a similar move to southwestern Weld County.

On the one hand, these companies face a Boulder city government that uses commercial growth limits to restrict their growth to a fraction of their potential, while on the other they look longingly at a county government and economic-development program that embraces them and bends over backwards to help them.

Boulder companies face…