Among those hiring this week are 104 West, Malen Yantis Public Relations, Ogilvy Public Relations, Allstate Insurance, Colorado Department of Education, Fastaff Travel Nursing and U.S. Nursing (internship), Denver Health, Grayling, Growing Colorado Kids, Interstate Restoration, Larimer Humane Society, Molson Coors, Regis University, The State Innovation Exchange (SiX), Transamerica, University of Colorado Boulder, Vail Resorts (part time), Viaero Wireless and Wells Fargo.

John Furrugia, et al, at KMGH/Channel 7 report that the president of the Denver Police union, Detective Nick Rogers, objects to the money spent on the DPD’s public relations efforts.

“We’re spending that kind of money on videos that don’t drop the crime rate,” said Rogers, a 30-year veteran of the department. “[Videos] don’t solve burglaries and robberies. That’s our mission and I think we lost sight of that.”

Ironically, much of the work the DPD PR unit does is designed to distract the public from exactly the kind of violations of which Rogers himself has been accused.

PRSA Colorado has started a “Master Practitioners” series for experienced members, and on Thursday journalist, author, lecturer and filmmaker T.R. Reid will  discuss his efforts getting the ColoradoCareYES initiative on the ballot and how his group plans to get it passed.

Details:
6 pm, Thursday, February 18
Linhart Public Relations
1514 Curtis Street, Suite 200
Denver, CO 80202
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Julie Jargon at The Wall Street Journal reports:

A rising star of the farm-to-table restaurant world is facing off against an industry titan in a trademark dispute over a simple name: The Kitchen.

The spat pits Kimbal Musk, younger brother of famed entrepreneur Elon Musk, against Wolfgang Puck, whose business empire includes more than a dozen different restaurant concepts, cookbooks, and packaged food and cookware under his brand. 

Kimbal Musk started a chain of farm-to-table restaurants 12 years ago called The Kitchen, which now has four locations in Colorado and Chicago, along with a more casual version called The Kitchen Next Door, which has three locations. …

Last summer, Mr. Musk said, he began receiving calls from friends in the hospitality industry asking him if he was planning to open a restaurant in Grand Rapids, Mich. He soon learned that a new restaurant had opened at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel called The Kitchen By Wolfgang Puck, where the recipes use “only the freshest, locally sourced ingredients,” according to its website. 

Mr. Puck also opened a fast-casual restaurant in the same hotel called The Kitchen Counter. The Kitchen By Wolfgang Puck is scheduled to open an outlet in Washington Dulles International Airport in the first half of this year.

As with many trademark disputes, it may come down to who has deeper pockets: Elon Musk’s little brother or a famed celebrity chef.

Following public outrage, Cleveland’s mayor has quashed attempts to make the family of a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by police pay for his ambulance ride.

Among those hiring this week are Development Counsellors International, BeadforLife, Centura Health, City of Boulder Heads Up Campaign, City of Colorado Springs, CSU Health Network, Denver Health, Engineers Without Borders (internship), Fluor Corporation, KMGH, Molson Coors, Prologis, Public Service Credit Union, VisiTech PR and Windstream.

Congratulations to Linhart PR’s Sharon Linhart, who had her caricature added to the Denver Press Club’s wall of fame.

(Photo courtesy of Jerry Arca)

GroundFloor Media’s Get Grounded Foundation is accepting grant applications from Denver-area nonprofits serving at-risk youth. Created last year as the primary charitable giving arm ofGroundFloor Media, the 501(c)3 provides one-year community grants for new or expanded, innovative or entrepreneurial programs or projects within an existing, qualified nonprofit that directly support the healthy development of at-risk or neglected youth between the ages of 3 and 13 in the Denver Metro area.

To apply for grant funding, visit the Get Grounded Foundation website at http://www.groundfloormedia.com/foundation.

Congratulations to Kristin Yantis of Malen Yantis Pubic Relations, who was named one of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International’s “Top 25: Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality Sales, Marketing, Revenue Optimization” for 2015.

Among those hiring this week are Pushkin Public Relations (internship), Alliance Française de Denver (AFD), Autism Society of Colorado, CH2M HILL, City and County of Broomfield, KUSA-TV (NBC), Larimer County, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Naropa University, Rose Medical Center, The Colorado Department of Revenue, The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), Weld County School District 6 and Zimmer Biomet.

Santanu Choudhury of the Wall Street Journal reports that India’s Tata Motors – parent company of the Jaguar and Land Rover brands, among others – is set to unveil the unfortunately named Tata Zica at an auto show next week as fears of the global Zika virus pandemic continue to grow.

Choudhury reports that, “Tata picked the name months ago using the first letters of ‘zippy’ and ‘car.’ … As more stories about the outbreak of the Zika virus and the disfiguring birth defects it can cause grabbed attention recently, it was too late to change the car’s name.”