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Post Independent: Carbondale chocolate bar makes Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s top 10 list

Pollinator Chocolate’s Lavender Dark Chocolate Bar has made the list for Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Coolest Thing Made in Colorado competition, according to a press release. Owned by Mark Burrows in Carbondale as part of the Cocoa Club, Burrows put this chocolate bar together out of 70% dark chocolate, other ethically-sourced ingredients and […]

Denver Post: Colorado weighs new plan to cut greenhouse gasses. Critics fear it’ll let major polluters pay to avoid reducing emissions.

Colorado’s air-quality regulators this week will consider a plan for the state’s 18 largest manufacturers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s running into sharp criticism from legislators and environmentalists who are concerned about a loophole that could allow companies to buy their way out of making cuts. … But no one agrees on […]

Gazette: PERSPECTIVE: Undercutting Colorado’s job creators

While Colorado remains a very attractive place to live and work, and recent job and business formation data provide reasons for optimism, there are also signs that the direct and indirect costs of doing business in Colorado are beginning to threaten our state’s competitiveness. To avoid losing our edge, our state Legislature should employ more […]

Colorado Politics: Colorado’s mushrooming regulations force out companies

Colorado companies tied up by bureaucratic red tape are warning they’re going to cut themselves free from the bonds of progressive regulations and head for the first open door. A recent survey by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce confirmed what job-creators in the state have been warning for years: the state’s hard-left, anti-jobs, ever-expanding regulatory […]

In the News: Colorado Chamber Press Roundup

Denver Post: A heavier regulatory burden has Colorado business leaders looking elsewhere, poll says Colorado business leaders are much less worried about finding new workers than they were a year ago, but they have increasingly soured on the state’s regulatory climate, and a host of new labor laws passed in recent years are cited as […]

Sopris Sun: Sweetness

Carbondale’s own Pollinator Chocolate has made it on the top ten list of Colorado Chamber’s “Coolest Thing Made in Colorado” 2023 contest for a dark chocolate with lavender from a farm in Palisade. All finalists will be honored at a luncheon in Denver on Oct. 19, where winners for select categories will be chosen. Stay […]