Group recommends tax
to fund state's colleges
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Fiscal
policy
The Denver Post: Higher education committee recommends tax increases
to fund Colorado colleges, universities
Lawmakers need to find a sustainable
funding source for Colorado's public colleges and universities, and
it may mean a tax increase, a committee formed to contemplate the
future of higher education said Thursday.
Also: Denver Daily News: Tax increase for higher
ed?
Also: Pueblo Chieftain: Task force advises higher ed tax
fund
Also: Fort Collins Coloradoan
editorial: Bold solutions to higher ed
challenges deserve hearing
Also: Durango Herald: Ritter calls for tax increase for
colleges
Associated Press via Greeley
Tribune: Hickenlooper will spend first 100
days on budget
Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper told
newly elected legislative leaders Thursday he will spend the first
100 days of his administration trying to find budget cuts that
cause the least damage and provide maximum benefit.
Colorado Springs Gazette: Lights, flowers, fountains
restored in proposed Springs budget
Last year, the Colorado Springs City
Council spent several hours agonizing over which programs and
services to cut to balance the 2010 budget. Thursday, the council
mulled which programs and services to restore.
Boulder Daily Camera: New fee among options to fix Boulder's
deteriorating roads
The idea of having a transportation
maintenance fee has been under consideration for years, as a way
for the city to make up the increasingly large gap in funding for
street maintenance and other transportation
improvements.
Colorado Springs Gazette: D-49 faces 'tough decisions' in
wake of bond failure
With the defeat Tuesday of a bond
question that would have added classrooms and built schools in
Falcon School District 49, disappointed district officials are
trying to figure out how to meet the needs of students in the
fast-growing district
Colorado News Agency: Will lawmakers do an about-face on
much-debated 'Amazon tax'?
Repealing the so-called "Amazon tax"
from last year's legislative session could be among the first
priorities of the new General Assembly in January because of two
important changes from last year: power in the House of
Representatives has shifted to Republicans, and a recent court
ruling in Washington could portend good fortune for a similar
lawsuit filed against the collection of Internet sales taxes here
in Colorado.
Health
care
Pueblo Chieftain: State sells Trinidad nursing
home
Two days after Las Animas County
voters turned down a ballot measure to help the county post a bid
for the Trinidad State Nursing Home, officials announced the
facility will be sold for $3.9 million to a Mancos health
agency.
Denver Business Journal: Morrison: Health-insurance rate
increase claims exaggerated
Federal health care reform is
responsible for less than 5 percent of the rate increases that
insurers are seeking in Colorado for 2011, Insurance Commissioner
Marcy Morrison said Thursday.
Also: Colorado Springs Business
Journal: Reform not to blame for insurance
premium hikes
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