SportsHosts, an app created in 2017 that connects local fans and visitors to go see live sports, soon outgrew its Melbourne, Australia, hometown. And Ensight Energy Consulting, an energy management consulting firm, has ambitions that span beyond its Denver hometown. SportsHosts founder Darren Walls and his team knew that they wanted to connect fans in the U.S., where he says sports are even more of a national passion than in Australia. So he weighed the pros and cons of moving his startup's headquarters to five American cities: New York, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Austin, Texas, and Denver. 

Democrats and Republicans in the Colorado legislature have reached an agreement to allocate $300 million for transportation in this year's budget package, but its unclear what will be cut in order to make that spending possible. "We're going to dig through the couch cushions," said Rep. Daneya Esgar, a Pueblo Democrat and state budget writer who sits on the legislature's powerful Joint Budget Committee. The deal was reached as the House was debating the state's $30.5 billion budget on Thursday and after the Senate agreed to spend an extra $106 million on transportation on top of the initial $230 million that was set aside. 

A bill that will ramp up local regulation of the oil and gas industry and remove Colorado from the business of promoting natural-resources extraction is on its way to Gov. Jared Polis' desk after re-passing the Senate on a fully partisan, Democratic-led vote Wednesday. It is assumed that Polis will sign Senate Bill 181, since the first-year Democratic governor was the lead state official in announcing the roll-out of the bill in February. And while 33 amendments were tacked onto the bill during the course of debate in the Legislature, including several sought by industry leaders, they were not enough to dissuade backers of more regulation from voting against the controversial proposal or to get any opposition Republicans to jump behind it. 

Seattle-based PayScale annually crunches data from college and university graduates to arrive at potential salary estimates for those who hold bachelor's degrees from those institutions. The latest edition of the website's "College Salary Report" used alumni survey data from 3.2 million respondents - representing more than 4,000 higher education institutions - to arrive at early and mid-career earnings for those organizations' graduates.