hospital provider fee
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Guzman: A solution for our rural hospitals
Delta. Montrose. Lincoln. Teller. Fremont. Las Animas. Morgan. Garfield. These are a handful of counties in rural Colorado that are home to hospitals. Hospitals that not only provide access to life-saving health care for residents, but are most likely the area’s largest employer. These hospitals are typically smaller than their urban counterparts, but they are…
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Crowder: Colorado’s rural hospitals facing plight
The future of health care has been in the news a lot recently. The intended repeal of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called “Obamacare” has generated more questions than answers. However, one thing is for certain. The upcoming plight of Colorado’s rural hospitals is not in question. Last year, the state Legislature voted not to…
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ICYMI: Exasperated GOP response to Duran transportation comments
Thursday morning’s response came in as expected: surprised, a little angry, accusatory, exasperated. The words were House Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist’s. “Speaker Duran’s call for more taxpayer revenue without any offsetting tax reductions is a complete departure from constructive conversations with Republicans and shows she and the Democrats have given up on a fiscally…
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What just happened? Speaker shakes up transportation funding discussion
In an extended and spirited meeting with reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, a Denver Democrat, drew a line in the sand concerning ongoing high-stakes negotiations over how to raise desperately needed state transportation funding. Duran said she would not separate transportation needs from equally dire education needs. Any proposal…
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In State of the State, Hickenlooper digs back into fiscal thicket
Gov. John Hickenlooper likely had to rewrite the State of the State speech he delivered Thursday, or at least rethink it. He surely thought he would be addressing a Legislature controlled by Democrats working in concert with a Clinton administration in Washington. Things didn’t turn out that way. Instead, the governor as speaking to the…
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Legislative leaders look past Trump election year partisanship, set groundwork to get things done
In the wake of this year’s long, fractious election season, Colorado’s new legislative leaders say they are looking forward to a productive lawmaking session next year at the Capitol, to which swing-state Colorado voters are again sending a divided Legislature – a Democratic House and Republican Senate. Sources at the Capitol, including top House and…
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? Transportation funding plan dies on unusual partisan vote
On a strictly party line vote, the Colorado Legislative Council Committee killed a proposed bill that called for voter approval of $3.5 billion in bonds and the transfer of state sales tax revenue to help fund transportation projects across the state. But to the layperson, the opposite of what would be expected to traditionally occur…
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Crowder, Casias vie for Senate District 35 targeted seat
They’re practical men from a politically moderate district. But the Senate seat they’re battling for is a top partisan prize. Larry Crowder and James Casias are locked in a tight contest for a Senate district seat that may determine the balance of power at the state Capitol. It’s a race charged with ideological power, even…