The Home Front: Colorado’s economic growth likely to slow in 2019

ACROSS COLORADO – By Staff Report for The Colorado Independent.

“The Colorado economy will continue to grow next year, but the pace might slow a tad. That’s the message from the 2019 Colorado Business Economic Outlook Forecast released today,” reports The Boulder Daily Camera. “The report, in its 54th year, is compiled by the Business Research Division of Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. Despite slower growth, Colorado will still be in the top 10 states next year for employment growth. Wages in the state also are expected to increase above the national average, said Richard L. Wobbekind, executive director of the Leeds Business Research Division.”

“The city of Denver is putting an unusual twist on development at a planned site in Globeville: A new project could combine affordable housing and space for manufacturers,” reports The Denver Post. “It’s the latest version of the hands-on approach that the city has taken to development. By buying up land and then negotiating with developers about how to use it, Denver hopes to shape the future of gentrifying areas.”

“(David) West, 71, will leave his position as a part-time magistrate judge at the end of the year – a decades-long judgeship that began with the 1982 inception of a federal court in Southwest Colorado,” reports The Durango Herald. “As a U.S. magistrate, West heard a plethora of cases assigned to him by district court judges, ranging from disputes over federal law to federal criminal cases. West also had jurisdiction to hear federal crimes that took place within the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes. Before West started in 1982, there was no federal judicial presence in Southwest Colorado.”

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