by Fort Collins Chamber | Dec 15, 2015 | Economy, Government & Policy
Last week I wrote about the progress being made toward getting I-25 widened. Since then we had the Regional Issues Summit last Friday at the Embassy Suites in Loveland. The Summit was hosted by the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance (NCLA, www.ncla.biz), which is...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Nov 3, 2015 | Economy, Elections
It’s Election Day around the country. In Fort Collins it’s relatively quiet with school board elections, a city measure asking to opt out of state law regarding municipal broadband and a state measure about the state retaining tax refunds from marijuana sales. The...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Oct 20, 2015 | Economy, Government & Policy
To keep you in the loop on efforts to widen I-25, here’s the latest. First, to quickly restate the issue, the 26 mile stretch between Highway 14 (Mulberry) in Fort Collins to Highway 66 north of Longmont is increasingly congested. This is especially true between...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Jul 28, 2015 | Economy, Government & Policy
You may have seen the soapbox in the newspaper recently proposing that the Chamber of Commerce merge with city government. The new entity would be called the “City of Commerce.” It was a little hard to follow, but it appears the writer thinks that city...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Apr 8, 2015 | Economy, Elections
Today is Election Day, thankfully. You have to be as tired of reading and hearing about the elections as we are of talking and writing about them. Shortly we’ll know what direction the public wants to take city government and by extension the community itself. Over...
by Fort Collins Chamber | Mar 24, 2015 | Economy, Elections
Two weeks from today is Election Day in Fort Collins. Most Fort Collins voters received their mail-in ballots in the mail yesterday. All elections are important because 7 elected representatives are setting public policy that impacts the rest of us including business....
