An expensive battle over credit card swipe fees; solar panels you can plug into your wall; an overcrowded cemetery

Businesses want to stop having to pay credit card swipe fees on the sales tax they collect, but a bill to change that is meeting stiff resistance from the banking industry. Plus, a new law will give renters a cheaper, and easier way to get solar power at home. And, the town of Lafayette has a painful dilemma: their cemetery is out of space, but families still want their loved ones buried there.Email us at [email protected]. Colorado Today is supported by CPR’s members.Read more on the stories in today’s show: Details on the Denver Food Matters Food Crawl, May 8 - 17 Rae Solomon on the bill to exempt sales tax from credit card swipe fees CPR’s Sam Brasch on the new law to allow balcony solar panels  CPR’s Elaine Tassy on the overcrowded Lafayette Cemetery This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Madilyn Rose, Megan Verlee and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.