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Conservative group sounds alarm over health care’s rapidly rising share of Colorado state budget
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Colorado’s state budget has jumped by more than 19 percent over the last decade, measured in constant dollars, a free-market think tank says in a report delivered at the Capitol this week as lawmakers weigh next year’s budget. And nearly all of that increased spending has gone to health care, the study by the Common…
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Updated: Trump fracking answer leads industry to pledge education
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Updated: 8/1/16 11:41 a.m. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Colorado on Friday and said he supports the practice of hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells. But he also favors the ability of communities to ban the practice, known as fracking. In an interview with KUSA-TV’s Brandon Rittiman, Trump said he favors fracking,…