If software touches your hiring, Colorado's new AI law applies to you. The clock starts January 1.
SB 26-189 repealed the 2024 AI Act and replaced it with a lighter framework. The impact assessments are gone. The notice duties are not, and they reach employers of every size.
Colorado builders have the work. What they can’t find is the crew.
Colorado contractors report credential and skill gaps well above national rates. In Weld, where one job in ten is in the trades, retirements, enforcement and a new data center are squeezing the same crews.
A Class 4 roof costs a few thousand more. Here’s when it actually pays you back.
Impact-resistant shingles add $2,000 to $5,000 to a re-roof. Insurer discounts run from 5 to 25 percent, none of the shingles IBHS tested earned its top score, and state grants start in 2027 at the earliest.
Weld's food bank is spending ten times more on food. Local employers are now the swing donor.
Federal deliveries fell and demand rose. The Greeley food bank now buys nearly ten times the food it did five years ago, and local employers are the swing donor.
Weld just overtook Larimer. Here's who is moving in, and what it means for your business.
Weld added more residents last year than any county in Colorado and now outnumbers Larimer. Three of the state’s five fastest-growing cities are inside its borders.
Colorado's $7.5 billion venture boom is building factories up I-25.
Colorado venture funding hit $7.46 billion in 2025. The rounds are in Boulder and Denver; the manufacturing is showing up in Loveland, Berthoud and Longmont.
The $16.7 million giving engine most Northern Colorado owners have never heard of
NoCo Foundation granted a record $16.7 million last year on assets that have nearly tripled since 2017. Stacked state credits can cut the real cost of a business gift roughly in half.
Your property insurance has doubled since 2020. Blame hail, not wildfire.
Colorado’s home insurance rates doubled in five years, the fastest rise in the country. The state now says hail is the main reason, and two new laws start to deal with it.
Colorado's child care gap is quietly costing employers $780 million a year
Employers absorb $780 million a year in lost productivity from Colorado's child care gap. Weld has about 0.32 licensed seats per child under six — last among the state's big counties.
The $2.7 billion water project is finally permitted. Your next lot pays for it.
NISP is permitted, litigation-free and smaller than promised. Six partners have walked. Meanwhile a single-family water tap in the Fort Collins-Loveland district runs $55,685.
Think you're too small for discrimination law? In Colorado, one employee is enough.
Title VII starts at 15 employees. The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act starts at one, and the 2023 POWR Act lowered the harassment threshold for every protected class.
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