pandemic
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Report: Denver lodging bounces back, but lags behind national recovery
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Metro Denver’s hotels saw a strong first quarter, marching – slowly but surely – to pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to an industry report from real estate giant CBRE. But the recovery remains behind the national average – largely because of the influx of all the newly-constructed, higher-priced hotel rooms that hit the Denver market in recent years.…
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Colorado’s economic development chief: The pandemic has changed how the state does business
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Pat Meyers just finished his first year as the head of Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade. He’s also the state’s chief economic recovery officer – a new position created by Gov. Jared Polis, who appointed Meyers to lead the state’s COVID Innovation Response Team in March 2020. Meyers served as John Hickenlooper’s chief…
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Bill to create pandemic supply stockpile signed into law
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Gov. Jared Polis signed a measure into law Wednesday to create an emergency stockpile of supplies to prepare Colorado for the next potential pandemic. Under House Bill 1352, Colorado will spend nearly $2 million each year to maintain a supply of face masks, gloves and other medical-grade personal protective equipment to distribute to hospitals, vaccine…
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Polis, legislators push $700 million in property tax relief that taps into TABOR refund
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Rising property values in Colorado are expected to cost Coloradans about $1.3 billion more in property taxes over the next two years. Lawmakers, business representatives and the governor’s office have been negotiating on a solution, and on Monday, the governor and some of those involved in the talks rolled out legislation to offer relief to…
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SONDERMANN | A feverish, chill-producing GOP assembly
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Eric Sondermann For a collection of pandemic deniers and public health resisters, those attending the Colorado Republican Party’s state assembly a week ago showed every sign of still being in the grasp of a dangerous fever, spiking to scary heights and producing the usual delusions. The fun and games were set to begin promptly at…
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What’s next for Colorado hospitals, health care with staffing as COVID-19 pandemic ebbs?
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When the pandemic began two years ago, many policymakers and health officials worried over hospital capacity. Did hospitals – here and across the country – have enough beds to meet the expected flood of COVID-19 patients? As the pandemic wore on, the concern shifted away from beds themselves and toward the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and…
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Appeals court says pandemic justified denying DUI breath test to driver
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Colorado Springs police were justified when, three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, they offered only a blood draw to a suspected drunk driver in lieu of a breath test, the state’s second-highest court has determined. Under Colorado law, a driver has expressed their consent to taking a blood or breath test when law enforcement has…
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Judge declines to reconsider dismissal of lawsuit over Frontier flight refunds
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A federal judge will not reopen a lawsuit against Frontier Airlines after he previously found the company was not liable for refunding the ticket purchases of plaintiffs when the COVID-19 pandemic forced flight cancelations in early 2020. Several Frontier customers, individually and then as a consolidated case, sued the airline for breach of contract. They…
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Colorado’s politicos pan, praise Biden’s first year in office
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Even as U.S. President Joe Biden sought to rally Americans at home and allies abroad against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Republicans and Democrats in Colorado remained deeply divided, with some GOP members blaming the president for Vladimir Putin’s war in Europe. The president’s allies maintained that the Biden administration is meeting America’s domestic and…
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Poll says support for teachers’ unions collapses, union official contests findings
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Public regard for teachers’ unions took a nosedive in a survey that shows Coloradans strongly supporting parents having more say in their children’s education. The poll, commissioned by Ready Colorado, a pro-school choice that supported a slew of contenders that ran opposite union-backed school board candidates in the last round of school board…