Business

Pass the kind of national health reform that brings in the vast ranks of the uninsured and you increase the number of consumers in the health care industry. This is partly what the Colorado Independent was writing about last week in a blog post reporting that U.S. Catholic Bishops had instructed parish priests to distribute [...]

DENVER– In a “state of the state” address at a Rotary Club polio benefit Thursday, Governor Ritter said natural gas and nuclear energy should be embraced as part of a clean energy portfolio, that he was “agnostic” on whether schools should be public or charter, and that he would ask voters to eliminate the budgetary constraints caused by the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights should he be elected to a second term.

The price of gas hit a new high yesterday, which will affect what drivers see, in addition to what they spend, while on the road.

While labor groups have submitted a slew of proposals for the 2008 state ballot countering a “right-to-work” initiative that would make it harder for unions to organize, businesses associations that have not been involved in the right-to-work push say they are concerned with how labor’s proposals will affect small-business owners.

On March 28, about 6,000 Denver-area Ricochet customers woke up to discontinued Internet service. Since notice was emailed late the night before, it’s unclear how many of them received it. It’s also unclear what happened to the Internet service provider (ISP).

Taxes are bad for business, or so the conventional “wisdom” goes, but a group of small-business owners in Aurora are the most recent entrepreneurs to turn that idea on its head – electing to tax themselves.

She is a Denver-area businesswoman, who has always obeyed the law regarding immigrant workers. She still does it by the book. That’s why she laid off 20 long-time employees at the first of the year when their Social Security numbers didn’t match federal records.

Now, those ex-workers have been hired by competitors, and she’s gone through [...]

If you are a business owner in Colorado and you’re not checking the Democratic National Convention/Denver Convention Host Committee website for Requests for Proposals, you could be losing an opportunity to make a chunk of change.

It’s true that some of the contracts are for services that may go beyond the capabilities of some small businesses, [...]

They came for their symbolic pound of flesh, the people Joe Nacchio screwed. They filled a federal courtroom Friday. They craned their necks to see the Qwest executive who had fired some of them and had overseen a stock-price crash that cost others their life savings.

Some of them grinned at the prospect of the man [...]

The recent hullabaloo portending that Colorado will become an anti-business state with the passage of a pro-union law ignores a series of findings on the state of entrepreneurship: sure, Colorado is a great place to do business unless you are a woman or minority.