Local governments should manage
more services, governor-elect says
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Fiscal
policy
Colorado Springs Gazette: Hickenlooper seeks ideas, suggests
cuts
Hickenlooper said county governments
are more effective at serving the needs of their residents, so he'd
like to see counties and municipalities take over delivery and
oversight of services that have traditionally been managed by the
state. Human services administration is one example, he
said.
Education News Colorado via Denver
Business Journal: Colleges make annual budget
pitches to lawmakers
"We're doing a great job, we're very
efficient and, by the way, please don't cut our budgets." That was
the basic message distilled from a day's worth of testimony Tuesday
to the legislative Joint Budget Committee by leaders of Colorado's
colleges and universities.
Also: Durango Herald: Colleges pitch for more
money
Aurora Sentinel editorial: Washington goes through the budget
motions without moving a thing
Federal lawmakers on Tuesday turned
back a Senate measure to prohibit the use of legislative
earmarks.
Health
care
Colorado Springs Business
Journal: Interim insurance commissioner
named
John J. Postolowski has been named
the state's interim insurance commissioner, taking over for Marcy
Morrison whose term ends Dec. 1.
Summit Daily News commentary:
Herding health care's sacred cows
and bulls
In the pasture of health care we
have a large herd of Sacred Cows, untouchable lest the entire herd
collapse without their sacrifice. Among these cows are a few Sacred
Bulls, so essential that many observers regard them as the sine qua
non, integral to "American" health care. |
