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Fiscal policy
The Denver Post: Hickenlooper plans to restore cuts to education, funding for poor seniors as Colorado sees hike in tax revenues
Turns out Colorado isn't quite as broke as forecasters expected. Gov. John Hickenlooper's budget office plans to announce today that a $231 million uptick in tax revenues will allow the state to restore the cuts planned for this and next fiscal year's K-12 budget. Colleges, local grants and the poorest seniors will also benefit from the better-than- expected fourth quarter.
Pueblo Chieftain: Garcia pleads for college financial aid
Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia on Monday urged lawmakers to minimize cuts to student financial aid at Colorado's colleges if more revenue unexpectedly becomes available. Otherwise, he said, the proposed reductions in state support stand to make higher education inaccessible to middle-class and low-income families.
Also: KUSA-TV via Fort Collins Coloradoan: Colorado students shoulder bigger share of public college cost
Also: Education News Colorado: What if there's no money?
The Denver Post: Colorado Republicans remain fuming mad at Senate deal, plan to turn it down
All but one of Colorado's House Republicans said were vehemently against a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance, saying the Senate bipartisan deal is too short-term to do any good.
Summit Daily News: Breckenridge won't put child care tax on April ballot
The Town of Breckenridge shot down a proposal to put a child care funding tax question on the April ballot, instead guaranteeing the town would continue to subsidize early childhood education out of its existing budget through 2014.
Jobs and economic security
Boulder Daily Camera: Boulder's retail sales up 5% through October
Through October, the city of Boulder's sales tax collections were up 5.1 percent compared to the same 10-month period last year, according to city finance data released Monday.
Health care
Health Policy Solutions: Ready Responder poised for disaster, treats underserved in the meantime
(Frank) Cordova is a nurse practitioner, but he doesn't just sit around waiting for the next hurricane or flood or Oklahoma City bombing. Between calamities, he works at the Salud Family Health Centers clinic in Commerce City.
Denver Business Journal: Denver firm chosen for pilot program on trimming health costs
Physician Health Partners, a Denver medical management company, was chosen Monday as one of just 32 organizations nationwide for a pilot program aimed at reducing health care costs by eliminating the fee-for-service business model traditional to the American system.
Colorado Springs Business Journal: University of Colorado Hospital gets task force nod
It's unanimous: The Memorial task force will recommend that University of Colorado Hospital lease Memorial Health System for the next 40 years.
The national scene
CNN: Dates set for Supreme Court health care reform arguments
The Supreme Court has carved out a week in late March to hold oral arguments in perhaps its biggest case in a decade -- the sweeping healthcare reform law championed by President Obama. The court announced Monday it will hear 5� hours of arguments spread over three days March 26-28.
Bloomberg News: Republicans May Force Impasse Over Payroll Tax
The U.S. House of Representatives lurched toward a showdown over an expiring payroll tax cut, escalating a legislative fight that may result in smaller paychecks in January for 160 million workers.
Think tanks
Brookings Institution: Five Things the Census Revealed About America in 2011
A cascade of statistics from the 2010 Census and other Census Bureau sources released during 2011 show a nation in flux-growing and moving more slowly as it ages, infused by racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants in its younger ranks, and struggling economically across a decade bookended by two recessions. |
