Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:35 AM PDT

The Denver Business Journal staff took home 11 awards, including a pair of first-place honors, from Saturday night's annual Society of Professional Journalists "Top of the Rockies" presentation.

The contest recognizes journalistic excellence by newspapers in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming. Awards were presented at the Denver Press Club at the conclusion of SPJ's annual Regional Conference.

The DBJ's winners:

• DBJ Editor Neil Westergaard received a first-place award for his weekly "Editor's Notebook" business columns.

• Reporter Greg Avery won first place for his package of stories on the roots of Colorado's cable industry. (Here's an expanded version of that package's interview with cable pioneer John Malone.)

• Photographer Kathleen Lavine won second place for news photography and both second and third place for feature photos.

• Reporter Renee McGaw won two awards for general business reporting: a second-place prize for a report on companies moving their headquarters out of Colorado, and a third-place award for her story, "Colorado banks struggle to lend."

• McGaw also won a second-place prize for investigative and enterprise business reporting for a report on lawsuits against the Jaguar Group real estate firm. (And here is an update on that report.)

• Reporter Paula Moore took third place in the investigative and enterprise business reporting category for a report on legal problems facing investment advisor Mark J. Jackson.

• Reporter Ed Sealover and former DBJ reporter Bob Mook won third place for political reporting for their assessment of Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. (Sealover, a former Rocky Mountain News reporter, also was honored for political reporting for his Rocky work.)

• And the DBJ's editors won a second-place prize for headline writing.

Last month, the DBJ staff won a national award for breaking-news coverage from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. The Journal was honored in SABEW's "Best in Business Journalism" competition for its online and print coverage of the closure of the Rocky Mountain News in February 2009.

And in February, the DBJ staff received 10 prizes, including five first-place honors, at the Colorado Press Association's annual awards presentation for the state's newspapers.

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OREGON BUSINESS NEWS - Oregonian

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:31 AM PDT

• Oregon Treasury employees wined and dined by investment firms they oversee

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• Despite state ethics rules, Treasury officials golf regularly on duty

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Fly in Qantas Business Class Pajamas - Luxist

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:52 AM PDT

by Alison Wellner (RSS feed) Apr 11th 2010 at 11:02AM

What good is a lie-flat seat if you're going to muss your outfit as you slumber? That, at least, is the thinking behind international airlines that distribute pajamas to their upper class passengers, and, it's good thinking -- I've noted before that flying business class is like having the best sick day ever, and where would a sick day be without great pjs?

The last time I flew Qantas three years ago, they weren't on the pajama bandwagon, but it's now a standard in-flight amenity in Business and in First. (There are different pajamas by class, naturally, differences I shall delve into after the jump, so come along.) I was in business so the pjs I received were grey cotton, with the Qantas kangaroo logo on the shirt. They come with a little cotton pouch to store the jammies in post-flight, and the inside of the shirt bears this handwritten phrase: "I wish you wonderful travels to dream land - Morrissey, x. " (The x is a goodnight kiss.) I was a little confused about why the one time lead vocalist from The Smiths was involved with Qantas pajamas -- and isn't he a Brit? I've since learned that this Morrissey's first name is Peter, the Australian fashion designer who also handles Qantas uniforms, which makes much more sense.

The pjs come in two sizes, L/XL and M/L. They're unisex, which isn't something I realized at first, so ladies, even if you like your pjs roomy, bear in mind that the L/XL is designed to fit a big, tall man. It's huge.

The bathrooms do get jammed at the beginning and the end of flights since everyone is changing in and out of their pajamas, and it is of course a little bit weird to be wandering around a plane with a bunch of strangers in sleeping clothes. But I do think I slept better than I would have in my jeans on the way out. And I liked them enough that I wore them each night of my stay in Australia.

If you fly Qantas First, your unisex pjs are designed by Akira Isogawa. You also get slippers (Business gets socks), and your toiletry kit, stocked with Payot Paris products, will include deodorant and a comb, both of which are lacking in the Business toiletry kit, which contains Korner cosmetic products customized by gender. I wouldn't expect a kit to include deo, so that's a nice touch in First, although I will say that the lack of a comb in the Business toiletry kit is a conspicuous absence after a 16 hour flight -- I'm pretty sure that there was a hair-smoothing implement in the kit three years ago.

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Posted: 11 Apr 2010 07:26 AM PDT

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