Author: Dave Davia
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PERSPECTIVE: Make Colorado’s clean energy practical
Colorado is at a crossroads: How do we meet our climate goals without worsening affordability, straining energy reliability, limiting our workforce, or driving up the cost of doing business? As members of the Colorado Energy Crossroads Coalition, a diverse statewide coalition of labor, business, utilities and consumer advocates, we share a commitment to meeting Colorado’s climate goals. But…
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PERSPECTIVE: Colorado’s prosperity is on the brink
By J.J. Ament, Debbie Brown, Dave Davia, Loren Furman and Kourtny Garrett When a company leaves Colorado, no one wins; especially not the line cooks, delivery drivers, bookkeepers, or the small businesses depending on them. Too often, business departures are shrugged off as isolated or inconsequential incidents. They are not. Their departures are a sign of the growing disconnect…
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PERSPECTIVE: Compassion is not enough
Homelessness. The problem is simply too big and too tragic to ignore. You can see it almost anywhere you go in Colorado’s urban areas: tents, makeshift shelters, and people struggling to find cover from the elements. We have watched our city and our state grapple with the challenge of homelessness for too long. The issue…
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GUEST COLUMN: Right goal, wrong approach to reduce building emissions
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Those of us in Colorado’s real estate construction, service and ownership community agree building efficiency and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions are a priority. We are proud of the advances we have made to support these efforts, beginning with the creation of the LEED Program in the late 1990s, an industry-led program to reduce…
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PERSPECTIVE: The toll of homelessness
We’re proud to call Denver home. Our capital city has few rivals when it comes beauty and quality of life. Sadly, a walk around downtown or a drive by a highway underpass in the metro area puts one of our biggest public policy challenges on full display. The proliferation of tents and temporary shelters paint…
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Time for an independent oil and gas commission
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America is facing an energy crisis. Regulators and extreme interest groups have waged war on oil and gas development. Our march towards energy independence has been sidelined by partisanship and far left politics. And now the world is being held hostage to Russia and other OPEC countries. When will we learn? Colorado is the case-in-point…
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’Public option’ undermines workers’ group plans
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The recently proposed Colorado Health Insurance Option (HB21-1232) poses a real threat to our economy and our job creators. For consumers, the proposed state government-run health insurance system comes down to less choice, longer waits and higher costs. According to a new study from Common Sense Institute, the proposed public option would impose price mandates…
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OPINION | Let science, not politics, guide energy regulation in Colorado
Diane Schwenke A bipartisan group of civic and business leaders is coming together to fix a problem that politicians are unable or unwilling to solve: Getting politics out of the regulation of oil and natural gas development. Our coalition has introduced a ballot measure to change the makeup of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation…