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Brave Leaders & Best Practices
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Click for your invitation to the Brave Leaders Award Ceremony and Panel Discussion to be held next Thursday, March 17. The University of Denver and the Colorado Business Roundtable recognize Colorado's finest leaders who exemplify courage, risk-taking, commitment and taking a stand. These leaders have stepped up and made strong, courageous decisions that kept organizations, workers, and companies alive and vibrant.
Please join us as we honor COBRT's distinguished Brave Leaders with awards, a reception and a p
anel discussion facilitated by former Denver Mayor Federico Peña featuring:
Chancellor Rebecca Chopp, PhD, University of Denver;
Mayor Michael Hancock, City of Denver; and
Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton.
Thursday, March 17, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (MDT)
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Connect and Collaborate Radio
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We are pleased to announce that our radio show was nominated for a Colorado Broadcasters Association award for Best Public Affairs Program/Radio!
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March 14 -
Pat Maley, Vistage. Vistage Chair Pat Maley introduces us to inspirational leaders, coaches and consultants.
March 15 -
Keith Lapuyade, Of Counsel. Keith Lapuyade is a litigation lawyer, known as Colorado Super Lawyer and one of the Best Lawyers in America. COBRT founder Gayle Dendinger describes him as the attorney you want on your side if you have to save your bacon. Keith will share his experience in litigation and advice on how to keep your bacon out of trouble.
March 16 -
Kristi Strother, Community College of Denver. As a professor of Journalism, Kristi has seen media trends change over time. We'll have an in-depth discussion on some phenomenon known as Selective Exposure and Spiral of Silence. Both trends impact how we use media and limit our exposure to information.
March 17 -
Paul Bergman, U.S. Department of Commerce. In keeping with the holiday, we'll discuss export trends with Ireland with Ambassador to Ireland Mike Sullivan. We will also talk with a Foreign Commercial Service Officer from Ireland.
March 18 -
Peter Moore, Vital for Colorado. Peter joins us to discuss ballot issues that target oil and gas production in the state of Colorado.
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Key Issue: Tax and Fiscal Policy
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Building a Better Colorado says thank you to everyone who participated in the BBCO dialogue over the past few months. BBCO thinks a better Colorado is possible when everyone is engaged in an honest and constructive conversation about what kind of government they want. If you're interested in the BBCO process, read the Final Report. COBRT welcomed Reeves Brown, Project Director of Building a Better Colorado, on our Connect and Collaborate radio show last month, and you can listen to the podcast here.
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Key Issue: Economic Development
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Key Issue: Health and Retirement
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Median earnings for women working full-time are less than 80 percent of what men earn according to the
Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement.
In addition to receiving lower wages,
women are
more likely than men to leave the workforce while they focus on parenting and caregiving. Also, more women than men work part-time, which can make them ineligible for employer-sponsored savings plans.
For women who don't have access to retirement savings plans at work, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's
myRA
® is a great way to start saving. It costs nothing to open an account, there are no fees, and it carries no risk of losing money.
Celebrate Women's History Month by helping people
make a little history in their own lives: encourage them to start saving with myRA.
Visit
myRA.gov
to learn more.
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Key Issue: Smart Regulation
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COBRT President Jeff Wasden and South Metro Denver Chamber CEO Bob Golden recently co-wrote an op-ed on the flurry of anti-business bills. This Open Letter to the Colorado General Assembly was published in two well-respected papers.
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Key Issue: Smart Regulation
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Courtesy of Job Creators Network
The DOL
recently introduced a new regulation on businesses paying employees overtime, more than doubling the salary threshold under which employees are required to be given overtime pay for all hours worked beyond the 40 hour workweek. The new rule mandates that all employees who earn less than $50,400 a year are entitled to time-and-a-half pay for their overtime hours (the
current threshold is $23,660). And the new income level is projected to steadily go up each year.
While it sounds like a good way to help working Americans..
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View to be 100x larger than Hubble
Courtesy of
Denver Business Jounral
"NASA has picked
Ball Aerospace to study a new space telescope that won't be launched until the mid-2020s.
Broomfield-based Ball Aerospace is going will develop a concept study for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Wide Field Instrument (WFI) for NASA, which will have a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA."
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Network with great minds in aerospace technology and then let your imagination soar during the one-hour program, "Space Weather, MAVEN and Drones: What They Mean to You, What They Mean to CU." The program will highlight CU-Boulder's renowned space science programs and central role in the Colorado aerospace industry. Keynote speaker Dr. Dan Baker will reveal how space weather can and will impact the technology we rely on every day.
After the program, savor a dessert bar as you engage with CU-Boulder's top scientists, students that represent the future of aerospace and current industry leaders. March 29, 2016 from 5:30 PM-8 PM.
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20X Industry: Advanced Manufacturing
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Just released is the 2015 Annual Report from the National Association of Manufacturers. The report highlights the incredible reach of the Dream It. Do It. network in the section that covers the efforts of The Manufacturing Institute. COBRT completed the Onboarding Process for Dream It. Do It. Colorado this week with a meeting of the steering committee and three informational sessions with manufacturers.
View the report
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Connect and Collaborate
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From National Small Business Association
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The new site also includes a Congressional Directory where small businesses can access contact information, detailed bios and staff names for their Members of Congress. NSBA's Online Action Center also tracks the key pieces of legislation that stand to impact small firms, and provides both brief summaries and detailed background on the bills as they are moving through Congress.
NSBA urges members to check out the new site and get involved by sending up an
Action Alert on any topic ranging from tax reform to regulatory restraint to health care costs.
Check it out
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BRT, Chamber, NAM Express Concern over Committee's Criticism of High-Skilled Immigration
Immigration reforms should help U.S. companies attract and retain the best talent the world, the Business Roundtable, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers said in a joint statement submitted for a Senate subcommittee hearing, "The Impact of High-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Workers." The groups expressed concern at the apparent attempt by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration to cast the H-1B visa program in a bad light. "Multiple studies have shown the positive impacts on job creation and wage levels that the H-1B program has for American business and American workers," they wrote.
CEOs Encouraged to Participate in Business Roundtable's Annual Sustainability Report
Business Roundtable's annual sustainability report, "Create, Grow, Sustain: People and Technology at Work" will reach a far wider audience thanks to a new partnership with
The Washington Post, and CEOs are being encouraged to use the opportunity to highlight their company's accomplishments. The 2015 report is available
here
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This year we are focusing on telling the stories of how companies like yours have leveraged their people and technology to solve problems - and how those solutions have delivered measurable sustainability benefits," wrote Nick Akins of American Electric Power, Chair of BRT's Energy and Environment Committee, in an earlier invitation. For more details and a participation form, please contact COBRT.
The Top Line: The U.S. economy added 242,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced March 4, 2016, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent. For analysis, see The Top Line below and online here.
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