Author: Sen. Irene Aguilar
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AGUILAR | Take responsibility for inappropriately incarcerating people with mental illness
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I was deeply offended by Sen. Kent Lambert’s June 18 opinion article impugning my motives for defeating, by filibuster, Senate Bill 18-252 on the closing day of session. Passage of this bill would have made Colorado the only state in the nation to legally permit keeping non-convicted people with severe mental illness in jails for…
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Aguilar and Herod: What Colorado can do to support our immigrant communities
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Measures brought before the Colorado General Assembly in this legislative session have shown that the contentious national debate on immigration has been jolting our state’s politics as well. As the federal government has shifted its policies to penalize so-called sanctuary cities and aggressively deport immigrants, we’ve seen conflicting bills introduced here on whether our state…
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Aguilar: The free market will not protect rural hospitals
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In response to Sen. Owen Hill’s Feb. 7 opinion column in The Colorado Statesman, I certainly agree with Sen. Hill that we need to protect Colorado Hospitals – particularly those in rural and underserved areas. However, he is mistaken in thinking that repealing Obamacare (“RomenyCare,” Affordable Care Act, ACA) and replacing it with the “Free…
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Aguilar: ColoradoCare: Real progress, right now
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ProgressNow, a nonprofit that claims to support progressive issues, came out against ColoradoCare/Amendment 69. With this decision, the organization abandoned the people of Colorado and joined forces with status quo establishment politicians and profit- driven private insurers who make it their business to deny care to those who need it most. ProgressNow abandoned legendary progressive…
