colorado business roundtable

Congress should delay Obamacare’s crippling health-insurance tax

Oct 10, 2017

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Jeff Wasden

With the Senate looking toward what’s next on health care reform and open enrollment looming, one issue picking up bipartisan support is delaying the health insurance tax for 2018. Delaying the tax would be an immediate action Congress could take to lower premiums. In fact, if a delay of this tax is passed soon, individuals,…
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to enact meaningful tax reform

Sep 20, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

President Trump visited Springfield, Missouri and laid out his plans for reforming our nation’s outdated, complex and uncompetitive tax system. The president’s plan is built around an America-first tax system that is focused on jobs, increasing wages and wealth in America, and restoring the American dream. The Business Roundtable conducted a survey of their CEOs…
Colorado crop OK for now, but need for immigration reform ever more pressing

Jul 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Despite concerns earlier this year that the new Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies would lead to labor shortages across Colorado’s agricultural sector, growers and their advocates are breathing a sigh of relief as the harvest approaches, confident they’ll have the hands to pick and package what could be a bumper crop. But even though one…
Colorado Business Roundtable names Joe Rice to its ’Inner Circle’

May 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Joe Rice, the director of government relations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, is the latest addition to the Colorado Business Roundtable’s Inner Circle, a group including some of the state’s leading business authorities. Rice, a former Democratic state representative and former mayor of Glendale, is a colonel in the Army Reserve with five combat tours…
Political veteran Dick Wadhams outlines ‘redprint’ for Republican victory in Colorado elections

Apr 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Dick Wadhams, who chaired the state Republican Party for two terms and had a hand in electing the statewide officials who set the tone for the Colorado GOP across three decades, has a message for the party: Republicans have never had it easy in Colorado. “This has always been a competitive state; this has never…
Report: Congested, deteriorating roads cost Colorado drivers $6.8 billion a year

Mar 1, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s poorly maintained roads and bridges don’t just make for an exasperating commute, they cost state motorists thousands of dollars per driver every year, and the cost is going up, according to a report released Wednesday. Statewide, 41 percent of major locally and state-maintained urban roads are in poor condition, and a full 6 percent…
Gas tax from 1991 ain’t what it used to be for Colorado

Feb 27, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado hasn’t raised its gas tax since the last time the Minnesota Twins won a World Series, since you knew everybody’s name on “Cheers” and since KFC was called Kentucky Fried Chicken. And that matters – a lot, state highway director Shailen Bhatt told business leaders last week at a forum organized by the Fix…
Business groups push for immigration reform, calling it a bipartisan issue

Feb 27, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Colorado business leaders – including Republican interests – are trying to put a face to immigration by highlighting the economic impact immigrants have on the country. The effort comes as President Trump explores expanded deportations and travel restrictions for undocumented immigrants, going as far as to threaten to punish local governments for interfering with any…
Gorsuch vote will reflect on Bennet’s Colorado values, say conservatives

Feb 23, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Ahead of the Supreme Court March madness of confirmation hearings next month, Colorado conservatives are putting a full-court press on Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Denver to support Neil Gorsuch. Bennet has not said how he will vote on Gorsuch, who serves on the federal appeals court in Denver. At a press conference Thursday conservative…
State transportation event delivers no news, except that leaders optimistic, dedicated, talking

Feb 22, 2017

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John Tomasic

The bad news is that Colorado Democratic Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran and Republican Senate President Kevin Grantham shared no new information Tuesday night at the north Denver ICOSA Event Center about the progress of high-stakes negotiations at the Capitol over state transportation funding. The good news is that the vision of the two…