Author: Ed Sealover, Editor, The Sum & Substance

In acknowledgement of the growing presence of technology in everyday life, the legislature this year weighed into more areas affecting innovative Colorado companies than at any time in memory, extending state regulations into sectors that didn’t exist a decade ago. Gov. Jared Polis has signed the final handful of 2024 technology bills, including heavily negotiated…

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Colorado’s precedent-setting Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board has declared a second medication to be unaffordable, setting it up for a possible upper price limit after the board’s decision to consider such a limit on another drug was met with a lawsuit. The latest drug to earn that label from the appointed board is Stelara, a…

With in-migration of workers to Colorado slowing substantially and more students choosing to end their educational journey with a high-school diploma, state employers are struggling to find enough workforce talent to fill job openings — a problem that’s only expected to grow. While business leaders agree that government doesn’t create jobs, they acknowledge that it…

One year after Gov. Jared Polis saw local-government backers block his land-use reform bill and then vetoed his party’s efforts to give cities and counties right of first refusal on some apartment sales, he signed two housing bills Thursday that attack the issues in new ways. In separate ceremonies, Polis inked a scaled-down measure granting…