Colorado board approves greenhouse gas emissions fees for companies
The 105 Colorado companies responsible for producing the largest amount of greenhouse gases will begin paying to fund the state’s efforts to reduce such pollution…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Short-term rental taxation: The statewide issue riling mountain-town business leaders
While the Colorado Legislature is considering a host of bills this session that will impact businesses statewide, one measure — on short-term rentals — is…
House OKs changes that could boost deceptive-trade-practice lawsuits
Once again this year, it will fall to the Colorado Senate to decide whether to make a significant change to the Colorado Consumer Protection Act…
Coming bills would ban new oil-and-gas wells, stop summertime drilling
Democratic legislators are preparing to introduce three bills that would make industry-redefining changes to the Colorado oil and gas sector, including a ban on new…
Construction wage theft proposal passes legislative committee overwhelmingly
Democrats on a Colorado House committee enthusiastically advanced a bill Thursday that would make construction general contractors jointly liable for wages their subcontractors fail to…
Legislators may look to formerly incarcerated to help ease Colorado labor shortages
Some five years ago, as Colorado’s red-hot economy was exacerbating labor shortages, some restaurant owners began actively recruiting from prisons, seeking departing inmates who they…
Legislators advance a bill that would limit lawsuits against key real estate sector
After a decade-long period in which businesses have bemoaned the worsening of Colorado’s legal climate, members of one profession — appraisers — are fighting back…
Legislators looking to make sales-tax remittance easier for businesses
Seven years after Colorado began planning how to implement a one-stop sales-tax calculation and remittance system for retailers and three-and-a-half years after that system went…
New Colorado House rule could limit debate on controversial bills at end of session
Colorado House Democrats pushed through a rule change Friday that could limit debates on certain motions at the end of each legislative session — a…
Bill would require employers offers workers suicide-prevention education
Suicide-prevention advocates want Colorado workplaces to take a more active role in their efforts, and a bill advancing through the Legislature would generate such collaboration…