Weekly News Clips
Note: In an effort to cut down on the number of emails we send our members during the state legislative session, we will now be combining our weekly news clips and the legislative update into one email. In weeks past, we had included legislative news clips in the Legislative Update and then sent a separate email of all news clips of interest from the week.
Budgets
Denver budget task force: Save dollars via details to overcome shortfalls
Denver Post: January 24
Guest Commentary: Challenges lie ahead for municipal infrastructure
Denver Post: January 26
Development
Lawmaker aims to privatize Colorado lands
Fort Collins Coloradoan: January 24
Colorado contractors hopeful about 2012 construction
Denver Business Journal: January 24
Economy
Obama to take on economy in state of the union
Denver Post: January 24
Economic Development
Analyst: Applicants for Colorado tax incentives overestimated visitor figures
Denver Post: January 24
With resorts suffering, Colorado's advertising for skiers
Denver Business Journal: January 24
Legislature pushes for satellite US patent office
Denver Business Journal: January 25
Barnes-Gelt: Small-business loans are the seeds that grow a great city
Denver Post: January 25
Lawmaker to roll with bill promoting Colorado as a movie-making mecca
Pueblo Chieftain: January 29
Education
Colorado Teacher Tenure Rules Poised For Quick Approval
CBS Local: January 24
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers appeals 'Lobato' school funding decision
Denver Post: January 24
Colorado Voices: A different path to prosperity
Denver Post: January 24
Council finds states weakening teacher tenure
Fox News: January 25
Proposal to limit school board campaign cash likely doomed
The Colorado Independent: January 25
Rally in Castle Rock praises school choice and assails teachers unions
Denver Post: January 25
Military, work experience could net college credit
Denver Post: January 25
Carroll: Spending, but not learning
Denver Post: January 25
Bill would make CPR a grad requirement
Education News Colorado: January 26
Dezzutti: ASSET Could Be a Real Asset for GOP
CBS Local: January 27
Editorial: ASSET bill offers hope to all students
Denver Post: January 27
Colorado GOP seeks to limit what it calls overreaching child-care rules
Washington Post: January 27
Bill in Colorado legislature puts state-testing call in parents' hands without penalizing schools
Denver Post: January 29
Elections/Politics
Gessler cites voter fraud in 2010 election
Denver Post: January 24
In State of Union address, Obama calls on top to help lift middle
Denver Post: January 25
Editorial: Economic justice vs. class warfare
Denver Post: January 25
Colorado GOP Hispanic lawmakers rip Obama's Aurora visit as "campaign" stop
Denver Post: January 27
Colorado Democrats disqualify Swonger from primary
The Durango Herald: January 27
Boulder businessman Eric Weissmann to challenge Polis in congressional campaign
Longmont Daily Times-Call: January 29
Energy
Solar thermal advocates say Colorado is perfect for taking the head
Denver Post: January 25
Obama using visit to Aurora today to pitch clean-energy program
Denver Post: January 27
General Business
Bankruptcy filings in Colorado end five years of upticks
Denver Post: January 26
Side Street: HOA report finds 'major' issues with boards, management companies
Colorado Springs Gazette: January 27
Colorado Republicans, business groups prefer to work on reducing regulations
Denver Business Journal: January 27
Health Care
Resolution repealing health care causes ill feelings
The Colorado Statesman: January 24
Report: Electronic health records still need work
Denver Post: January 27
Health care spending takes a bite out of education
Pueblo Chieftain: January 29
Labor
Colorado House committee kills union wages bill
Denver Business Journal: January 27
Private sector unions add members
Denver Post: January 27
Pinnacol Assurance
Pinnacol Assurance, beset with criticism, suspends ads for privatization
Denver Post: January 25
Hickenlooper gives blessing to Pinnacol privatization proposal, with a few tweaks
Denver Post: January 26
Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper recommends Pinnacol privatization with tweaks
Denver Post: January 27
Transportation
Boulder council weighs $24 per-household annual transportation tax
Boulder Daily Camera: January 25
Water
Tribes, Colorado talk Animas-La Plata water, as state nears contract with US on paying for it
The Republic: January 26
Lawmakers oppose water law change
Pueblo Chieftain: January 27 |