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Lane: CIIS pits profit against children’s privacy
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Recently, several Colorado newspapers have published articles regarding Colorado childhood immunization rates and fears surrounding the de-funding of the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS), a $3.3 million per year, tax payer funded, inaccurate, opt-out only tracking system that contains private medical information accessible to health care providers, governmental agencies and school personnel across the state. In…
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Long: CDPHE has become the Colorado Department of Public Harassment and Exceeding the law
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For seven years, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE) has abused its power. It is overdue for a Senate Oversight Committee to put it in check and balance. Recently, I was talking to a Colorado lawmaker about my concerns with CDPHE’s unresolved 2016 state audit that found serious conflicts of interests within CDPHE awarding years of…
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Hickenlooper, Senate GOP in message battle over move to ‘defund’ Clean Power Plan implementation
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Patience is wearing thin at the Capitol around the budget battle being waged over the state’s air quality division, which Republicans have targeted as the main office prepping the ground for implementation the Obama administration’s carbon-slashing Clean Power Plan. Gov. John Hickenlooper has argued that the division’s work is vital to state businesses and he…
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Battle to ‘defund’ Clean Power Plan launches House budget debate
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The first skirmish in the war over the state’s budget Thursday centered on coal and clean air and featured the “defund” politics conservatives have embraced in the Obama era. Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, a member of the Joint Budget Committee, proposed two amendments that would cut funding for the state’s Department of Public Health and…
