Fiscal policy The Denver Post: Stalemate on Colorado budget continues Negotiations continued throughout the day Monday with no apparent resolution at hand to a week-old stalemate on next year's state budget. Also: Denver Daily News: Long talks over Long Bill Also: Pueblo Chieftain: Budget bill hits impasse Also: Denver Business Journal: Tax breaks snarled in budget battle Also: KCFR-radio: CO Lawmakers Stalemated on Budget Also: Associated Press via Greeley Tribune: Colorado spending stalemate drags on Also: KDVR-TV: Budget impasse continues, despite talks Canon City Daily Record editorial: State should save some of that $75 million The news on the state revenue front has been decidedly positive over the past month. The Denver Post: Five groups found unique ways to cut $40M from Jeffco schools' budget Whacking nearly $40 million from Jefferson County Public Schools' proposed budget last month proved no easy task. But the means to that end, believed to be unique in Colorado, introduced a consensus-building approach that participants say worked uncommonly well as a crisis-management tool and could become a model for future budget talks. Also: Steamboat Today: Steamboat Springs School Board talks about tax increase Denver Post editorial: Limited change to PERA pay-in A temporary pension-funding increase for teachers and other public employees would aid cash-strapped local governments. Denver Post commentary: Government shutdown is only the undercard Now the real fight begins in Washington. And the surprising thing is, the real battle is not about the possible government shutdown, which is, after all, just so much political theater. The Colorado Independent: What Colorado can teach other states about college vouchers: not much Policy expert: Colorado reform 'radical' in concept, made 'no difference' in reality. Health care Summit Daily News: No need for kids to be uninsured in Summit County There are over 800 children in Summit County eligible for low-cost medical insurance, according to Robert Murphy, community support manager at the Family & Intercultural Resource Center. The problem is, Murphy said, many people don't know their children qualify. | 
