Effort to speed wireless-infrastructure permitting could be undermined by Senate amendment
Critics of a bill that seeks to offer regulatory predictability to the wireless industry tacked on an amendment this week that undermines the intent of…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Bill to promote nuclear energy headed to Polis with bipartisan support
Gov. Jared Polis soon will have the opportunity to do something that, as recently as one year ago, would have seemed ludicrous — sign a…
Ideas from security-clearance classes to cybersecurity hubs emerge from regional talent summit
As the Opportunity Now Regional Talent Summit convened in Arvada Tuesday, Joe Rice acknowledged that if he could accomplish only one thing from the event,…
Construction-defects reform decisively clears major hurdle
Given the choice between very different approaches to addressing construction-defects law, Colorado legislators on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a bill to make it harder for condo…
Business coalition requests delay in pivotal rulemaking on toxic air contaminants
Business groups have asked Colorado regulators to postpone an April hearing regarding new toxic-air-contaminant rules, arguing that adopting reporting rules before knowing how the information…
Restaurants find success and roadblocks while seeking legislative help
Colorado restaurants that are begging state leaders for help during a time of mounting closures came away from two days of intense hearings this week…
Legislators debate costs and benefits of anti-obesity insurance mandate that will raise premiums significantly
Even as Colorado faces a $1 billion budget shortfall and bipartisanly declared affordability crisis, legislators are advancing an anti-obesity insurance mandate that will cost Medicaid…
Unions advance Labor Peace Act overhaul without proposed compromise
A bill to upend Colorado’s Labor Peace Act cleared another key legislative hurdle on Thursday — but only after a compromise proposal from a Democratic…
Trial lawyers trying again to make it easier to file pricey consumer-protection lawsuits
For the third straight year, legislators are advancing a bill to make it easier to file costly deceptive-trade-practices lawsuits under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act…
New price-gouging regulations pass Colorado House after significant concession from sponsors
Colorado House members passed a bill to boost the state’s price-gouging regulations on Monday — but only after scaling it back significantly so that it…