tony gagliardi
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‘Ban the box’ beaten back by Senate GOP; biz community pleased
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Ruling state Senate Republicans drew cheers from the business community and jeers from the Democratic minority across the aisle for stopping legislation Monday that would have prevented employers from inquiring about the criminal past of job applicants. All of which — the action by the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee; the sigh of…
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Colorado’s small biz community says thanks for lightening their load
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The National Federation of Independent Business in Colorado — the steadfast voice at the Capitol for the state’s small businesses — heaped praise this week on the Republican-run state Senate as well as our Democratic governor. Their praiseworthy deeds? Supporting legislation to ease the complicated and cumbersome burden of sales-tax compliance on the state’s mom…
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Gagliardi preps small business troops for legislative battle
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Tony Gagliardi, head of the state’s small business caucus, sought to gird members for the long days and nights that lie just ahead at the Capitol, when battles over taxes, housing development laws and health care and regulatory reform heat up. He was talking informally in a committee room on Friday before the legislative chambers…
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Small Business Day attendees at Capitol celebrate victories, gird against defeats
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Colorado legislative leaders and top business owners mingled on St. Patrick’s Day with about 100 attendees at Small Business Day events at the Capitol sponsored by the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business. Group members and guests spoke with enthusiasm about benefits the small business community brings to the state economy and…
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Major small business group not so into Hick’s hospital fee plan
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The Colorado chapter of a high-profile small-business advocacy group on Friday let lawmakers know that not every major business organization in the state favors Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plan to expand the state budget by converting the hospital provider fee into an enterprise fund. “We didn’t oppose the fee when it was created in 2009. We…
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Colorado at legal epicenter for business issues
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Three down and one to go.It was probably just coincidental, but in the past two years, Colorado has become a focal point of legal decisions on business issues with national implications. Three of the four cases giving our state this — from businesses’ perspectives — unwanted attention have been settled, with the biggest case still…
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Question of TABOR’s constitutionality could cause major reverberations
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Who is in charge of the American republic? A case out of the federal district court of Colorado could answer that question, if the Supreme Court takes the matter up next spring. In 1992, Coloradans voted to amend their state constitution in order to impose restraints on their government’s power to tax and spend. The…
