rural health care
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State aid for adult dental care is just what rural Colorado has needed
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The 2018 Colorado General Assembly started recently, with opening day speeches from Republican and Democrat leaders outlining their priorities for the session. The focus for most lawmakers, as well as Gov. Hickenlooper, will be on transportation funding, rural broadband access, reform of the state’s pension system and school funding. An important issue for the citizens…
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The $26.8 billion question: How to sell the 2017 budget
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Now that the Colorado state budget proposal has appeared and lawmakers are wrangling over the numbers, the political narratives that will be used to sell the budget to voters and to defend against constituent anger in elections to come are taking shape. This year it seems unquestionable that it will be a tougher budget for…
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Sen. Ulibarri steps up game for abortion advocacy
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It was his experience as an adoptive parent that spurred state Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, D-Westminster, to join a national push to protect abortion services this election year from intense and successful efforts around the country to trim those services back. “I had the ability to choose how our family was made and I think it…
