Former managing editor returns to reporting

Some longtime readers of the Northern Colorado Business Report may know this is my second tour with the paper, to use an old military term.

I was recruited (another military term) by former editor Tom Hacker to be managing editor in the fall of 2000 and continued in that capacity until September 2004. During those four years the paper went through a bit of a rollercoaster ride, with the relatively good economic times of the late 1990s suddenly giving way to a recession caused by the events of 9/11, and then – slowly – back to good times again.

It was not…