Badders earns award from ‘Best of the West’

David Badders, art director for The Northern Colorado Business Report and its Wyoming edition, The Business Report, has won second place in a Western regional contest for illustration.

Badders won the award in the Best of the West contest, which honors outstanding reporting, writing, design, photography, graphics and illustration from newspapers and television stations throughout the West. The competition covers 13 Western states, with entries competing regardless of size or frequency of publication.

This year’s contest drew 2,000 entries from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Badders tied for second place — out of…