Legislators reject effort to rein in airport, ballgame food prices
Legislators who’ve backed efforts to hold down housing or utility costs in the name of affordability declined to do the same for Denver International Airport…
Legislative Session
Debate set for bill that would consider high stadium costs to be price-gouging
Colorado legislators who took a small step in 2025 to boosting state regulation of price-gouging will consider Tuesday whether to go after the problem in…
Committee kills bill dealing with emissions reporting
A bill that sought to make Colorado companies post their reportable emissions on their websites died in a bipartisan vote Thursday, as legislators questioned the…
Legislators move to give state new oversight of workplace-safety rules
Frustrated with a proposed rollback of federal workplace safety laws, legislative Democrats want to give the state enforcement authority in this area— and took the…
Colorado seeks to take control of injection-well permitting away from EPA
Colorado regulators want to oversee now-federalized permitting for the growing number of underground injection control wells — an idea that appeals to some geothermal and…
Legislators give bipartisan backing to extending Job Growth Incentive Tax Credit
Even in the midst of another significant budget shortfall, legislators overwhelmingly took the first step Monday to approving an extension of a corporate income-tax credit…
Bill would mandate coal-community employers give hiring preferences to workers losing jobs
A number of private employers in coal-transition communities would have to give hiring preferences to coal workers losing their jobs at local facilities under a…
Childcare industry at “crossroads”: Seek state help or ask it to back off?
Colorado legislators have spent the past four sessions working to boost childcare access and affordability, but even after those efforts, surveys show that most parents…
Feb. 16 “Colorado Chamber Office Hours”: A quartet of childcare bills
If one figure tells the story of why childcare is so intertwined with business, it is this: The lack of available care slots keeps so…
“Huge deal” tax-bill package seeks to roll back and decouple tax breaks
Democratic legislators are poised to unveil a quartet of bills next week that could decouple Colorado law from hundreds of millions of dollars in new…