Tag: colorado budget
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers wrapped up their work last week, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a budget…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers wrapped up their work last week, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a budget…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers wrapped up their work last week, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a budget…
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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Colorado lawmakers wrapped up their work last week, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a failed attempt to decriminalize prostitution. For the second consecutive year, the Democratic‑controlled legislature confronted a budget…
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EDITORIAL: On a fiscal cliff of their own making
Once again, Colorado legislators are scrambling to address a whopping $1.5 billion deficit of their own making. There’s a simple reason for that. Just last year, when Gov. Jared Polis called a special session to address what was then an $800 million shortfall on a $44 billion budget, lawmakers failed to do the heavy lifting…
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PERSPECTIVE: Budgeting for reality
At the dawn of the next Colorado budget cycle, it behooves state legislators to ask: Just what exactly is in store for the Centennial State down the economic road? The answer to that question is the key to funding a realistic budget. Colorado’s economy was growing at one of the nation’s fastest clips in the…