dianne primavera
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Budget cuts threaten Youth Mental Health Corps for rural students
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In rural Colorado, a single school counselor can face impossible odds. With limited staff, students in crisis are at high risk of slipping through the cracks, and having their emotional, social, and academic needs unmet. At Moffat Schools in the San Luis Valley, school counselor Sarah DeLeon knows those challenges firsthand. “School counselors can be…
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Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera tests positive for COVID-19
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Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera tested positive for COVID-19, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. Primavera is experiencing minor symptoms but will continue to work from home and follow guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the announcement said. She is fully vaccinated against the virus. Primavera’s diagnosis comes exactly one week after she attended an…
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Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera co-chairs national mental health task force
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Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera is co-chairing a national task force charged with developing policies to support the mental health of workers and address behavioral health workforce shortages. Primavera convened the State Exchange on Employment and Disability’s (SEED) bipartisan National Task Force on Workforce Mental Health Policy last week, along with Martin Walsh, secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. “I’m…
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From ‘eccentric’ family to pandemic-era justice: Maria Berkenkotter ceremonially sworn in to Supreme Court
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Justice Maria E. Berkenkotter poked gentle fun at the unusually large gap between her first day on the job in January 2021 and her public swearing-in nearly 21 months later. “Thank you all so much for being here to celebrate the 633rd-day anniversary of my appointment,” Berkenkotter said to laughter during her late-September ceremony. Gov.…
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Task forces issue long-awaited recommendations on $1 billion housing, behavioral health spending
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The Democratic establishment quickly lined up behind recommendations to spend roughly a billion dollars in federal aid on a slew of housing and behavioral health programs, notably money for a revolving loan fund and increasing adult inpatient and residential care. The recommendations, which two legislative task forces unveiled on Monday, will be turned into legislation that is…
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Republicans in Colorado House, Senate approach immigration bills differently
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Two bills this legislative session — both dealing with services to immigrants living in Colorado unlawfully — show how Republicans in the House differ on the issue from their counterparts in the state Senate. The most recent example: A bill that would allow undocumented college students to apply for instate financial aid. The issue dates back…
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Polis sets up health-costs office; talks Denver teacher strike
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Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed his second executive order, starting down the path of fulfilling a pledge on health care made in his Jan. 10 State of the State address. The new Office of Saving People Money on Health Care will be headed by Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, a former lawmaker, cancer survivor and…
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Sights and sounds from the Polis inauguration
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As seen at Tuesday’s inauguration of Colorado’s 43rd governor, Jared Polis: Little lighting up or phone foolery: As much as Colorado’s new governor is a friend to the cannabis industry, there was no readily noticeable toking up in the crowd at the ceremony among the several thousand who stretched from the west steps of the…
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Polis sets ‘Blue Sneaker Ball’ to celebrate inauguration
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Gov.-elect Jared Polis will be sworn in as Colorado’s 43rd chief executive on Jan. 8 at the State Capitol, with a party scheduled for that evening that will include a concert, local fare and the chance to browse exhibits at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The public is invited to attend the inauguration…
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Stapleton picks Rep. Lang Sias as GOP running mate
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With a backdrop of military aircraft and heroic leadership as a setting, Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton announced a state legislator and former Navy Top Gun pilot, Rep. Lang Sias, as his running mate. Stapleton revealed his choice at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver on July 11, honoring Sias,…
