Federal law provides $17.2 million in
loans to state's small businesses
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Jobs and economic
security
Denver Business Journal: Colorado to get $17.2M to boost
small-business loans under new law
Colorado will receive $17,233,489 as
its allocation under a new federal law intended to boost lending
for small businesses, the U.S. Treasury Department announced
Friday.
Fiscal
policy
The Denver Post: Amend. 61 aims to curb
debt
Arguments in favor of Amendment 61
rest on the assertion that the state must stop spending beyond its
means.
The Denver Post: Amend. 60 would reverse impact of
mill-levy freeze
The proponents of Amendment 60 say
it would address a wrong perpetrated on Coloradans in 2007 when
Democrats, in control of the legislature and governor's mansion,
enacted the "mill-levy freeze."
Summit Daily News: Summit County commissioners come
out against 60, 61, 101
If approved, the commissioners said
these three items will collapse Colorado's economy, ultimately
causing the loss of 73,000 Colorado jobs - the majority of which
are private sector jobs within the construction, health care and
transportation industries. These job losses are in addition to the
110,000 jobs lost during the recession.
Also: Canon City Daily
Record: Officials rally against
measures
Boulder Daily Camera: Possible tuition increases range from CU-Boulder's
9.5 percent to 25 percent at Adams State
The plans are early, and college
leaders say the request to raise tuition helps keep their options
open in the case of bleak state funding scenarios. But the requests
-- which are required by state law if schools want to increase
tuition by more than 9 percent -- are raising early concern for
tuition-paying students.
Economic
self-sufficiency
The Denver Post: Funds lent on payday loans grew in
2009
The number of consumers taking out
payday loans dropped nearly 8 percent to 279,570 in 2009 compared
with 2008, according to a subprime- lending report Thursday by the
Colorado attorney general's office, which notes that the number may
be overstated because some consumers borrowed from multiple
lenders. The total amount of loans in 2009 grew nearly 2 percent to
$576 million.
General
Boulder Daily Camera
editorial: Vote 'no' on bail proposition
Yet another dog of an issue on the
state ballot this year, Proposition 102 is sponsored by the bail
bonds industry and will benefit pretty much no one at all, except
for those who make money in the bail bonds industry.
Health
care
Durango Herald: Amendment 63 rejects Obama's
health-care bill
Amendment 63 would create a new
right in the state constitution - the right to health-care choice.
What that means is a matter of debate. But everyone agrees that the
Amendment 63 campaign is an attempt to reject the health-care law
Congress passed at the urging
of President Barack Obama this year. |
