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  • Marguerite Salazar, former Colorado insurance commissioner and federal health official, dies

    Marguerite Salazar, former Colorado insurance commissioner and federal health official, dies

    Marguerite Salazar, who served four years as Colorado’s insurance commissioner, died in Santa Fe on Nov. 1. Salazar died at a Santa Fe hospice, surrounded by her family, according to the Alamosa Citizen. She was 69.  Salazar was born Juanita Marguerite Lara in La Jara, in the San Luis Valley. Salazar earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from…


  • Colorado’s top business regulator to take similar post in New Mexico

    Colorado’s top business regulator to take similar post in New Mexico

    Marguerite Salazar, who leads the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies in the Hickenlooper administration, is leaving to fill a similar post for New Mexico Gov.-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham. Salazer will lead the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department. At Colorado’s DORA, Salazar oversaw regulators for a wide range of businesses, from acupuncturists and accountants to…


  • Colorado securities regulator to retire; successor named

    Colorado securities regulator to retire; successor named

    Gerald Rome, who has been Colorado’s chief securities regulator since June 2014, will retire at the end of November. Rome will be succeeded by Chris Myklebust, the deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, the parent of Rome’s division, DORA Executive Director Marguerite Salazar announced Monday. Before being named commissioner of the…


  • Donna Lynne lists high-profile women backing her race for governor

    Donna Lynne lists high-profile women backing her race for governor

    Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne has some of the state’s best-known women in business, education and other civic life backing her race for governor. The campaign released of 87 “Trailblazers” endorsing the Democrat from Denver Monday. “This campaign is about bringing people together and getting things done for all Coloradans.” Lynne, who also is the state’s…


  • One of the bigs in health insurance will stay another year in Colorado

    The Colorado Division of Insurance announced Wednesday that Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado has committed to serving the individual insurance market statewide for 2018. That includes the 14 hard-pressed counties where Anthem is the only option available through the state’s health-insurance exchange, which offers eligible plan members tax credits to defray the soaring…


  • The Hot Sheet, February 3, 2016

    The Hot Sheet, February 3, 2016

    Wednesday, February 3, 2016 DENVER – Happy Wednesday everybody — when hope (and today, maybe even the sun) springs forth once again. “I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”…


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