Several business-group leaders said at the beginning of this session of the Colorado Legislature that with all the tax and regulation bills aimed at them, this would be a year in which they would have to hope for little victories.

And, buried under the continued advancement of a bill to curb enterprise-zone tax cuts and the haze — yes, the pun is intended — of the debate over medical-marijuana regulation in the past week have come five of those quiet little victories, The Denver Business Journal reports.