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131 West Main St…………………………………………970-522-5330

Congratulations To

B&J Plumbing

and Heating

....Business Of The Week

236 N. Second St. .23.................. ..... ............... 970-522-3828

The Logan County Chamber of Commerce as the Business of the Week to B&J Plumbing and Heating of Sterling: Tyler Simpson, Jimmy Gore, Carrie Unrein, Owner Rick Lock, Derrick Roger and Bob Neil.

....B&J Plumbing and Heating has been a family business since 1961. Started by brothers William “Bill” and Jim Lock, the company is now run by Bill’s sons Rod and Rick.

....Rick operates the original Sterling office, which has been located at Second Street since 1973. Rod runs the Granby shop, serving Grand County since 1984.

....B&J Plumbing and Heating employs 11 people between the Sterling and Granby shops. Some employees have been with B&J for over two decades.

....The Sterling shops projects include Bank of Colorado Event Center, Blue Spruce Dorm at Northeastern Junior College, Logan County Justice Center, Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Stonegate housing development, Main Street Pier in Parker, and currently the new project in Sterling, Deer Run.

....Grand County projects include Winter Park Ski Resorts, Timber Fox, Granby Ranch and many others.

....B&J Plumbing provides residential to commercial plumbing and hot water heat service from small to large jobs.

....B&J Plumbing and Heating of Sterling, Inc is located at 236 N. Second Street, Sterling. They can be

reached at 970-522-3828.

....B&J Plumbing and Heating of Granby, Inc. is located at 752 E. Agate Avenue, Granby. They can be reached at 970-887-3963.

.Join Us In Congratulating

B&J Plumbing

and Heating

....Business Of The Week

#tyingthecommunitytogether

B&J Plumbing & Heating ..................... Your Chamber of Commerce  

Ambassadors at the Logan County Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting welcoming R & R Rent A Car and owner Rod Smith into the business community. R & R Rent A Car is located at 429 N 3rd St. in Sterling. See more information see R&R on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rentacarsterling or call 970-526-6900.



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Mattea Pelton, Colorado Wool Contest participant, joined the festivities at Ag Day @ the Depot. Make It With Wool is a competition to promote the beauty and versatility of wool fabrics, yarns and fibers. The National Make It With Wool contest is entering its 75th year of competition. It is sponsored by the American Wool Council, the American Sheep Industry, and the American Sheep Industry Women.  The program is administered by an all-volunteer group of State Directors, the National Advisory Board and a National Coordinator.

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LCEDC  

Thank You For Joining In March 2023

Thank You For Renewing Your Membership March 2023

Riverside Fabrication, Inc.

Wendy’s /Wenplatte

Sterling Travel Agency – Travel Savers

Richard A. Ontiveros

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Health Care Bill May Expand

....During Gov. Jared Polis’ first term, Colorado legislators passed significant health-care reform in areas ranging from prescription-drug pricing to lower-cost insurance offerings.

Now, in the first year of his second term, they are looking already to expand some of those programs, even before they’ve been able to implement the original plans fully. And in the case of at least one bill, they are hoping to study an idea that could end up wiping out one of the early, signature programs.

....Supporters of the new changes said they are hoping to remove some handcuffs originally placed on the reform efforts in order to allow them to work better — and to study whether even bolder ideas could bring bigger gains to the state.

....Opponents like insurers and Republican legislators are questioning, however, whether it’s wise to double down on these initiatives before seeing whether they’ll achieve some of the benefits that supporters predicted — or some of the drawbacks that opponents worry will arise.

Health Care Bill

'Ambitious' Climate Bill

.... An “ambitious” climate bill that would speed up Colorado’s decarbonization efforts, incentivize the purchase of electric lawn equipment and streamline the regulation of carbon-sequestration wells passed the state Senate on a Democratic-led party-line vote Friday.

.... Senate Bill 16, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Chris Hansen of Denver, is one of several bills trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is moving through the Legislature this year, but it stands out for the breadth of sectors and activities that it could affect. An amendment made Thursday to the bill, for example, would fine utilities as much as $20,000 per day for failing to connect residential customers’ solar arrays and electric-vehicle chargers to the electric grid in a timely manner, and the bill also requires the state’s public-pension fund to report on its climate-related investment risks.

.... SB16 is similar to a measure that died late in the 2022 session, though less prescriptive when it comes to both lawn equipment and the climate-related portfolio of the Public Employees’ Retirement Association. But it continues to frustrate utilities and other businesses by moving the goalposts once again to speed up reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at a time when companies are dealing consistently with new rules or proposals in this area.

Climate Bill

Equal Pay Proposal Changes

....Sponsors rejected a handful of amendments — including one requested by Gov. Jared Polis’ office — during Colorado Senate debate over the past two days on an update to the Equal Pay for Equal Work law, leaving the fate of the business-opposed bill in the hands of the House.

....Senate Bill 105, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Jessie Danielson of Wheat Ridge and Janet Buckner of Aurora, comes two years after implementation of a law that added transparency measures to the recruiting and hiring process that are designed to end the gender wage gap. Those included a ban on asking the past or current salaries of job applicants, a requirement that open positions must be posted for everyone in the company to see and a mandate that advertisements for job openings include the proposed salary range.

....The law garnered Colorado national attention in 2021 when roughly 100 national companies advertised remote positions with the caveat that residents of this state need not apply — a provision that allowed those without physical offices here to avoid requirements of the law.

....Business groups, including the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, have been working with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment since that time to discuss possible cleanups of the statute that honor its purpose while removing some of its most burdensome provisions.

Equal Pay Proposal

Learn About CLIMBER Loan Fund

11 a.m., Thurs., April 27

... Join the Colorado Chamber and former local chamber CEO, Sam Taylor for a 45-minute call to learn how the Colorado Treasury is working with lending institutions to make low interest loans to the small businesses across our state. The CLIMBER Loan Fund program was created by the Colorado Legislature in 2020 to help businesses that were adversely impacted by the pandemic to gain access to working capital loans at sub-market rates through the year 2024. This informational call is for small businesses (up to 99 employees) to learn how they can access the state’s $250 million fund...///////...................................................................

... CLIMBER Loans

Colorado Chamber of Commerce

Public Policy Risks Faced By Companies Soar

...Successful business management requires successful risk management. Entire industries have been built to help businesses quantify, mitigate, and insure against risk. In some cases, risks are relatively easy to quantify—like the risk of debt default or property loss.

....Even with potential impairments that are harder to assign a dollar value to—such as reputational risk—businesses have still found ways to measure, track, and actively manage risk.

Despite all the recent advances in measuring risk, one area that has defied easy quantification is risk emanating from changes in public policy, such as changes to laws, regulations, or legal enforcement. 

....In this report, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks to measure public policy risk to determine whether the level of public policy risk is rising or falling relative to other risks companies face.

In order to assess public policy risk, the Chamber reviewed a decade (2011 to 2021) of 10-K filings (comprehensive reports filed annually by publicly traded U.S. companies) from the S&P 500. This survey calculates the number of times companies referenced terms commonly associated with public policy risk (like “regulation” or “Congress”) compared with the mention of terms associated with non-public policy risk (like “reputation” or “economic conditions”).

Public Policy

March Jobs Report

....The March jobs report was another strong data point for job creation and labor force participation.

‌....Despite the worries about a slowing economy leading to rising unemployment, the labor market keeps chugging at an impressive rate that defies conventional wisdom.

....By the numbers:

• Job gains were 236,000. This exceeded market expectations of 190,000.
• Leisure and Hospitality added 72,000; Education and Health 65,000; Government 47,000; Professional and Business Services 39,000; Other Services 11,000; Transportation and Warehousing 10,000; and Information 6,000.
• Construction lost 9,000 and Wholesale and Retail Trade 8,000.
• The labor force rose by 480,000. We are now almost 2.3 million workers above the pre-pandemic participation level.
• And: Wage gains were also strong, rising 0.27% from February and 4.2% annually from March 2022.

....If we had the same participation rate now as in February 2020, there would be 1.8 million more workers in the labor force.

Economic Report

Big Win Against FTC

...Successful business management requires successful risk management. Entire industries have been built to help businesses quantify, mitigate, and insure against risk. In some cases, risks are relatively easy to quantify—like the risk of debt default or property loss.

...A major victory for the business community in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran: The prospect of enduring years of costly and unconstitutional agency procedures before ever seeing a courtroom often forced businesses to settle even weak and unmeritorious enforcement actions. Today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision ensures businesses will get their day in court to challenge those procedures.

...They do not have to wait to raise constitutional claims until the end of the very unconstitutional procedures they seek to challenge.

Anti-Trust



Cellphone Marks 50 Years..

...“Hi, Joel? It’s Marty Cooper.”

...Engineer Martin Cooper cradled a bulky object to his ear, listening. The gray device had two rows of numbered buttons between the ear and mouthpiece. An antenna poked from the top, reaching skyward to pick up invisible signals from the city’s jangling atmosphere.

...Next to the sidewalk, cars and taxis zipped down Sixth Avenue through midtown Manhattan. It was April 3, 1973, and Cooper had just placed the world’s first cellphone call.

Cooper, who worked for Motorola, had just stepped out of the Hilton Midtown where he would soon officially demonstrate the wireless personal cellphone his team had developed.

...When a journalist approached him during the pre-event mingling, Cooper was struck by the impulse to manufacture a newsworthy anecdote—and decided to call Joel Engel, who led AT&T’s rival cellphone program. “I decided ‘Well, why don’t we give him a real demonstration?’” Cooper recalled years later. “And that’s exactly what we did.”//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////History of the Cellphone

US Chamber of Commerce

Econic

Northeastern Junior College  

April 22 Earth Day Event

Sterling Concert Series  

CSU Regional Engagement Center

ECCLPSC

Baby Bear Hugs

Barb's Main Street Gifts and Baskets

The Sportsman Experience

Cowboy Ball

Southwest Weld Chamber of Commerce  

Overland Trail Museum

Spring Concert …………………………Master Chorale

Logan County Heritage Center

.Logan County Fair...............…………………………………………………………. Josh Turner Concert

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