Local aerospace firm growing ninefold with new HQ in Broomfield

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 10/15 12:00A Matthew Geiger

Leap is readying for takeoff. The aerospace company, born and raised in Colorado, leased a 75,000-square-foot warehouse at 11210 Wadsworth Parkway in Broomfield. CEO Chris Beckman said the move will take his four-year-old business from “R&D to...

Hyperscale data center planned for Aurora ‘must be stopped,’ mayor says

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 10/6 12:00A John Aguilar

Just days after Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman declared that a gigantic proposed data center in the city must be stopped, a spokesman for the company behind the project said the 860,000-square-foot facility should be evaluated based on verified facts....

Aurora’s Ballot Question 3D would move municipal elections to even-numbered years

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 10/2 8:03P John Aguilar

Aurora voters will decide in the Nov. 3 election whether to move municipal elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years . The Aurora City Council referred Ballot Question 3D to the ballot in late July by a 6-2 vote. It would affect...

Douglas County ballot measures will decide whether to add more commissioners — and how to elect...

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 10/2 8:03P John Aguilar

Douglas County voters will be tasked in the Nov. 3 election with deciding whether to add two people to the Board of County Commissioners, and they ll choose how they should be selected for the county s top elected posts. If passed, the measure...

Proposition 137 would set aside $175 million in sales taxes for conservation, wildfire prevention

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 10/2 8:03P Elise Schmelzer

Coloradans in November will decide whether the state should set aside tens of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue for conservation and wildfire prevention. Proposition 137 would funnel an estimated $175 million a year from existing taxes to...

One of Colorado’s largest employers is considering offering childcare for 43,000 workers as more...

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 10/1 12:00A Shay Castle, Special to The Denv

When Stephanie Burke moved from Southern California to Colorado in late 2021, she left behind employer-provided childcare for a drastically different situation. Her Green Valley Ranch neighborhood was a child care desert: a place where there are...

Molson Coors in distribution battle with owners of Corona and White Claw

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 10/1 12:00A Aldo Svaldi

Breaking up can be hard to do especially when it comes to ending a beer distribution agreement in Colorado. A special set of laws governs the distribution and sale of beer and malted beverages in Colorado, with a basis that goes to...

Gaylord Rockies Resort will face old foes in any new state incentive request

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/28 12:00A Aldo Svaldi

Almost eight years after the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center, located southwest of Denver International Airport, opened its doors , a long-dormant battle between it and competing hotels and restaurants has reignited. The Ryman...

Two more metro Denver cities pass moratoriums on new data centers

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/23 8:27A John Aguilar

Thornton and Commerce City this week became the latest Colorado communities to halt new data center development, following similar moratoriums passed recently in Denver , Jefferson County and Larimer County. Commerce City s moratorium, passed by...

How the ballot proposal to overhaul Colorado taxes could change your tax bill — and who pays more

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/20 12:00A Nick Coltrain

Colorado voters will decide this November whether to make one of the largest changes to the state s tax code in a generation but it s one that would have vastly different effects depending on a person...

Colorado Supreme Court tells judges they can stop livestreaming their hearings despite state law...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/15 9:11A Shelly Bradbury

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday told judges they can stop livestreaming court proceedings for the next 90 days a move that directly contradicts state law and escalates an ongoing power struggle between the state s highest court and its...

Aurora focuses on water savings with restrictions on data centers, new turf

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/15 6:40A John Aguilar

Reducing water use was front and center at the Aurora City Council meeting Monday night as the city s elected leaders passed a pair of ordinances designed to conserve water amid a severe drought in Colorado . The council unanimously gave initial...

Aurora set to embark on data center regulation with a measure aimed at reducing water consumption

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/14 12:00A John Aguilar

The Aurora City Council is set to consider its first regulation for data centers as the fast-multiplying facilities central to modern digital life spur pushback from people worried about impacts to neighborhoods and the environment. But the item...

Pushes for expanded county commissions play out in Douglas and Boulder counties

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/8 12:00A John Aguilar

It s been nearly a decade and a half since voters in Colorado last approved the expansion of a county commission from three to five members. Residents of two Colorado counties each at opposite ends of...

Pay advance company that backed efforts to change Colorado lending laws now faces AG lawsuit

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/6 12:00A Seth Klamann

For the past two legislative sessions, an emerging financial technology company that offers a different kind of paycheck advance has backed efforts to carve its industry out of Colorado s regulations...