As the legislature reconvenes today, we start 120 days of hard work on your behalf at the Capitol. A top priority for the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce is to ensure we get funding for transportation and education (particularly higher education). To give you background. For more than a year the Chamber has been advocating … Read Post
Stronger funding for transportation and education—and ultimately keeping Colorado economically competitive—was the focus for Colorado General Assembly Leadership at the 3rd Annual Business Legislative Preview this morning. Democratic and Republican leadership agreed that more funding is needed, but had differing views on how to fund those priorities. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which advocates … Read Post
They say time flies when you’re having fun. I must have had fun in 2015, because time has flown by. Okay, maybe fun isn’t the perfect word, but I think time flies here because we really love what we do at the Chamber – working for all of you and putting more Coloradans to work. … Read Post
Time and again in our history, we’ve joined with the business, nonprofit and public sectors to successfully engage on ballot issues of significant impact to Colorado’s economic vitality. Earlier this week, we committed to develop a campaign to defeat Amendment 69, ColoradoCare (single payer health care). Amendment 69, termed ColoradoCare by proponents, is a tax … Read Post
The Colorado Water Conservation Board presented the state’s first water plan with Gov. John Hickenlooper today. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Competitive Council have provided comments on behalf of the business community and over the past year conducted eight meetings around the state to get the business community talking about water. … Read Post
Last week we saw voters support three important ballot issues for our region—and we saw some important measures fall short. Let’s start with the good news: Voters recognized that thinking big and making decisions today for the long-term is really smart—and, they passed critical ballot issues that will economically benefit all of us for decades. … Read Post
When it comes to conducting our work, even at the Capitol, we aren’t big on party lines. We’re about smart, practical solutions that benefit all Coloradans. And HOW we work matters, too: We’re about collaborating and bringing people from across aisles, throughout the state and with different points of view together so that we truly … Read Post
