welfare
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Jeffco judge wrongfully terminated father’s rights as he struggled to connect to hearing, appeals court rules
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A Jefferson County judge declined to postpone proceedings and instead terminated a father’s parental rights as he struggled to connect to the virtual hearing, a decision the state’s second-highest court has now reversed. District Court Judge Ann Gail Meinster should have granted the request to postpone the February 2021 hearing, a three-judge panel of the…
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Q&A with Josette Jaramillo | Reframing the conversation to workplace issues
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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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State Supreme Court weighs counties’ obligations to American Indian children
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A mother of two children struggled with substance abuse and was the victim of domestic violence. When the children’s father assaulted her and moved out, she abandoned the children at daycare. The matter culminated in a Denver judge terminating both parents’ rights in 2020. However, the child welfare case has now landed at the Colorado…
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BIDLACK | There’s no news in good news — or in good government
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Did you hear the one about the time the government worked efficiently and made everyone happy? I’m betting not, but I strongly believe that government actually works pretty well for most people most of the time. It’s common to assert that our elected officials and the bureaucracy they oversee are all a bunch of thieving…
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Work requirements for welfare don’t work; focus on skill building instead
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On this we can all agree: Employment is important – not only to provide for one’s family but also to generate the pride we all feel in an honest day’s work. As many people as possible should join the workforce, particularly here in Denver where employers are desperate for employees amid historically low unemployment and a…
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Albritton: Colorado leading the way in providing for needy children, families
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Colorado is leading the nation with a new policy that supports and strengthens the safety net for children. In April, Colorado became the only state in the nation to allow Colorado Works (Colorado’s version of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF) recipients to receive full child support payments with no impact on their cash…
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YESTERYEAR: Buckley scrutinized, newly elected Perlmutter nabs key committee seat
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican Secretary of State Victoria Buckley found herself under a bit of a microscope with the legislative branch. Buckley was forced to defend her campaign’s actions, coming under fire by the Colorado General Assembly’s Audit Committee. The state auditor had released a report finding that Buckley had…
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? Zoe: A conservative case to raise the minimum wage
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I have been a fiscally conservative Republican since I was a young man because President Ronald Reagan’s unshakable optimism in the goodness of America and his message of personal responsibility and the dignity of work resonated strongly with me. And that’s why as a business owner, I’ll be voting for Amendment 70 to gradually raise…
