Colorado approves first-in-nation rules to limit development near streams and wetlands
Colorado this week became the first state to create a permitting program to protect state waters after a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision reined it…
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Colorado leaders seek to create “one-stop shop” to help employers, students access workforce-development programs
As Colorado employers have decried the lack of skilled talent entering the state’s workforce over the past half-decade, Colorado has created new programs to boost…
Dec. 5 Colorado Inside Out: Highway safety, healthcare and more
Ed Sealover, editor of The Sum & Substance and vice president of strategic initiatives for the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, joins host Kyle Dyer on…
Proposed bill would require large Colorado employers to help fund Medicaid, SNAP
Large Colorado businesses with substantial numbers of part-time employees on public benefits would have to help fund Colorado’s Medicaid and SNAP programs under a bill…
Title board gives OK for proponents to move ahead on progressive income tax measure
The effort to replace Colorado’s uniform tax rate with a graduated income tax is moving ahead again, after a state board ruled Wednesday that a…
Business gets mixed results as Colorado updates ozone reduction plan
Seeing no pathway to reach compliance with federal ozone standards by 2027, Colorado regulators voluntarily downgraded the state’s status with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
Vacancy taxes, real-estate transfer fees among new levies that local governments seek to assess
Local governments seeking additional revenue for housing and other priorities want to ask legislators next year to let them assess several new taxes and fees…
As autonomous vehicles proliferate, Colorado officials debate the need for more regulation
Waymo is operating driverless taxis in a handful of U.S. cities. Joby Aviation is testing air taxis that it intends eventually to fly without pilots….
Colorado set to revise ozone-reduction plan with more regulations
State regulators are looking to voluntarily downgrade Colorado’s noncompliance status with federal ozone standards from serious to severe throughout the northern Front Range — a…
Voters approved two-thirds of requested lodging-tax hikes
Six of nine Colorado counties that sought lodging-tax increases in last week’s election passed the measures, indicating that while residents in tourist-draw areas remain largely…