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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Utah legalizes medical pot, expands Medicaid
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UTAH State legalizes medical pot, expands Medicaid SALT LAKE CITY – Voters in conservative Utah have decided to join the growing number of states legalizing medical marijuana and expanding Medicaid to cover tens of thousands more low-income residents, two issues that had long stalled out with conservative state lawmakers. Utah will be on the list…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses
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Oklahoma awards first medical marijuana patient licenses OKLAHOMA CITY – More than 1,600 people and businesses applied for Oklahoma medical marijuana licenses on the first day that applications were made available. The online application system went live in late August at www.OMMA.ok.gov for all potential medical marijuana patients, growers, dispensaries, processors and caregivers. Oklahoma State…
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Shocker: Coloradans want to maintain Medicaid coverage for kids
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We’ll just cut to the chase on the results of a new poll commissioned by Children’s Hospital Colorado – and, please, be sure you are seated. From the hospital’s press release highlighting the findings: A recent poll conducted by a leading Republican pollster finds a “universal belief” among Colorado voters across the political spectrum that…
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Viano: GOP health insurance reform bill must stop Obamacare-induced bleeding
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Back in 2010, voters across the nation swept Republicans into office, giving the GOP the majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in years. Two years later, Americans allowed the Republicans to take control of the Senate, and the party has managed to maintain its majority in the federal legislative branch ever…
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Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’ says Rep. Mike Coffman at town hall
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Showing no partisan love for embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told the sometimes angry, confrontational audience in his first Trump-era town hall meeting Wednesday night that Spicer should step down. “He needs to go,” Coffman said of Spicer. The comment arrived like a crescendo in the nearly two-hour long town…
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Neville and Neville: Repeal and replace plan falls short
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Among the most promising things about the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, in conjunction with a Republican-controlled Congress, was the long-awaited realization of the repeal of Obamacare – the expensive government takeover of health care that was President Obama’s signal “achievement” – which drove up health insurance premiums and deductibles, priced millions out…
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Noonan: Political parties must change or die. What then?
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Our political parties are approaching an end game. A quick look at March registration numbers tells the story. Among active voters, Democrats and Republicans are even in registration. Unaffiliated voter registrations exceed both parties by 200,000 people. The short-term problem for Democrats in 2018 when voting numbers will be low is that Republicans have about…
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Hickenlooper says GOP-led health care overhaul has ‘gone haywire,’ urges bipartisan approach
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Saturday panned legislation unveiled last week to replace the Affordable Care Act, lamenting that the Republican proposal would strip millions of their health care coverage. “Part of what’s crazy about this is the process has gone haywire,” the Colorado Democrat said in an appearance on the Fox News show America’s News HQ. “Before, Republicans…
