Legislature sends twice-killed single-payer-healthcare study bill to Polis for first time
Following two years in which it died on the Senate clock at the end of the legislative session, a bill to study converting Colorado to…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Architects, engineers: Legislators advancing bill that could cancel out construction-defects reform
Even as legislators are advancing construction-defects reform, a subset of construction professionals point to another bill moving quietly through the Legislature and argue it could…
Effort to ban use of consumer surveillance data meets its legislative end
Legislators squelched a plan Tuesday to make Colorado the first state to ban companies from using consumer surveillance data to set prices or wages, though…
Sponsors gut bill that sought to shrink tax cuts — but promise to restart fight in 2026
Sponsors significantly pared down a bill Monday that had sought to roll back tax breaks for insurers, software purchasers and enterprise-zone investors — but vowed…
Council proposes new emissions-cutting rules for warehouses, entertainment venues, airports
A governor-appointed air-quality planning board will ask a state commission later this year to impose new regulations that eventually could limit emissions from gas-powered-vehicle traffic…
Colorado regulators raise emissions fees significantly, create new reporting requirements
A Colorado regulatory panel agreed Friday to raise fees on industrial companies by as much as 67% and to implement a new system, beginning in…
Supporters fix potentially fatal flaw in bill to speed up cell-tower permitting, close connectivity gaps
Supporters of a bill to speed up permitting for wireless towers throughout Colorado have fixed a potentially fatal flaw that was added into the proposal…
New incentive proposal aims to get Colorado into data-center recruitment game
Feeling that Colorado has fallen way behind other states in the effort to attract capital-intensive data centers, a bipartisan pair of senators is pushing the…
Unusual business/trial-attorney effort seeks to expose secretive foreign funding of lawsuits
Businesses facing lawsuits on subjects ranging from intellectual-property claims to antitrust violations may be facing down a plaintiff who is being funded by a deep-pocketed…
Senate committee to hear bill on “shaming” customers who buy fuel products
After failing to ramp up regulation of the fossil-fuel industry or ban the drilling of new oil and gas wells in 2024, environmental groups are…