Colorado’s legislative liquor wars are back
After a several-year pause, Colorado’s long-running liquor wars are returning to the state Capitol this year, with two bills that could reshape how alcohol is…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Legislators dedicating portion of unemployment-tax revenues to new workforce enterprise
One year after members of the Joint Budget Committee stepped in to stop unemployment-tax revenue from being used to fund enforcement of labor regulations, leaders…
Committee considers whether carbon capture has future in Colorado
As Colorado aims to achieve 100% net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, leaders of key state agencies argue that they can’t meet that goal without employing…
Committee kills bill to prevent drilling of future oil-and-gas wells
A proposed ban on new oil-and-gas wells failed to make it out of its first legislative committee Thursday, dying after a nearly nine-hour hearing in…
Legislators remove local-control provision from environmental-cleanup bill
A bill to offer more environmental protections to disproportionately impacted communities is advancing in the Colorado Legislature, but without a key provision that would have…
Advancing workforce-development bills aim to give learners in-demand skills
Colorado legislators this week advanced two significant pieces of workforce-development legislation — one bill to create regional talent-development plans and grow an existing grant program,…
Construction-defects reform bill passes out of key committee
A construction-defects reform bill that builders argue is integral to the state’s affordable-housing push cleared a major hurdle Thursday when it advanced through a committee…
Senators advance seasonal oil-and-gas activity pause, industrial fine increases
Legislators looking to ramp up both regulations against air-quality violators and the enforcement of those laws advanced two major pieces of legislation Wednesday, despite warnings…
“Worker Freedom Act” designed to protect employees from anti-union meetings
Employers who require workers to attend meetings featuring political or religious messages and then retaliate against staffers who walk out or refuse to go could…
Legislator ends effort to require insurance networks to include all Colorado primary-care docs
A Colorado House leader nixed his plan Tuesday to let state residents keep primary-care providers even when they change jobs or insurers, opting instead for…