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Colorado unemployment rate falls as payrolls surge to record
Colorado’s unemployment rate fell in February to its lowest level in two years as payrolls surged to a record high, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. Colorado recovers jobs lost in first months of pandemic The 4% jobless rate, down from 4.2% in January, is the lowest since February 2020, just before…
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Colorado recovers jobs lost in first months of pandemic
Colorado’s private sector has recovered all of the jobs lost early in the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Since May 2020, the state has added 370,000 private sector payroll jobs, compared to losses totaling 358,800 in March and April 2020 that were triggered by a stay-at-home state…
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Race for Senate President Leroy Garcia’s seat heats up, recalled legislator joins contest
Among the seven candidates so far who want to succeed outgoing Senate President Leroy Garcia is a familiar name: former state Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo, whom voters recalled in 2013. And next Saturday’s election is starting to shape up as a battle between endorsers: in Giron’s corner, Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver; in Nick…
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Coloradans face sharp spike in energy bills this winter
Millions of Coloradans face steep increases in energy bills this winter, with some having to pay as much as 50% more compared to last winter. The rate increases occur at a time when residents struggle to keep up with inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hammer the state and the rest of the country.…
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Q&A with Josette Jaramillo | Reframing the conversation to workplace issues
Josette Jaramillo was elected this fall to a second four-year term as president of the Colorado AFL-CIO, a federation of some 185 unions with 130,000 members in the state. A supervisor with the Pueblo County Department of Human Services’ Child Welfare division, Jaramillo is a longtime member of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal…
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Colorado unemployment rate falls for fifth consecutive month
Colorado’s unemployment rate fell in November for a fifth consecutive month , the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. The state’s 5.1% jobless rate last month was down from 5.4% in October; it has dropped a full percentage point since July as 30,000 more people held jobs in November than did four months…
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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
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Work begins on addressing violations at Colorado mental hospital: ‘We’re using a system that doesn’t work now’
As the number of online beds and employees working at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo continue on a downward trajectory, triage measures to help alleviate the increasingly clogged pipeline for pre-trial criminal defendants waiting in jails for admittance to Colorado’s largest psychiatric hospital are underway. “We’re using a system that doesn’t work now,”…
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Leo Lucero, a Colorado lawmaker from Pueblo who championed education and racial equality, dies at 91
Leo Lucero, a Pueblo lawmaker who championed diversity and education during 14 years in the state House, died Sept. 24 at the age of 91. Born in Boone, the Democrat joined the Marines after graduating from Centennial High School of Pueblo. Lucero earned his sergeant’s stripes before heading back to school and serving as a…
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Pueblo County Commission rejects solar energy project
PUEBLO – An application to build a solar farm in southern Colorado has been denied by Pueblo County commissioners. The Pueblo Chieftain reports the application by Invenergy to build 750 acres of solar panels failed on a 3-0 vote Wednesday. Area residents had opposed the facility, fearing it would be a fire risk and devalue…