Tag: rachel zenzinger
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Cost of Colorado’s free school meals program is ‘out of control’
When Colorado voters approved “Healthy School Meals for All” two years ago, organizers behind the ballot initiative estimated the program would cost $115 million in its first year. The actual costs significantly exceeded that — $166 million — leaving state lawmakers scrambling with the financial fallout. “I don’t know why the costs have gotten so…
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Sen. Rachel Zenzinger’s final bill aims to boost Colorado’s higher education
Education has been Sen. Rachel Zenzinger’s top priority since she took her seat in the state Senate over nine years ago. Wednesday is Zenzinger’s last legislative session day, as she is term limited. Zenzinger, D-Arvada, was first chosen to represent the 19th Senate district in December 2013. She replaced a Democratic senator who resigned after…
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Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future
A watered-down version of the Senate’s “construction defects” bill won preliminary approval on Wednesday after four hours of debate and over two weeks of delays, as bill sponsors worked with multiple amendments. A final 25-8 vote Thursday sends to the bill to the House. With just a few provisions remaining from the original version, Senate Bill…
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INSIGHTS | Bipartisanship on education commission will serve Polis well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis did something right a couple of weeks ago. He appointed former state Rep. Jim Wilson to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The 11-member board was created by the legislature in 1965 to write policy on, well, higher education and enforce it…
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INSIGHTS | Bipartisanship on education commission will serve Polis well
Gov. Jared Polis did something right a couple of weeks ago. He appointed former state Rep. Jim Wilson to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The 11-member board was created by the legislature in 1965 to write policy on, well, higher education and enforce it through the state Department of Education. The definition of higher…
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Coronavirus: What’s next? Lawmakers, industry leaders and officials give their best guess
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save -PHOTOS: Documenting COVID-19 in the Pikes Peak region It’s not hyperbolic to say that the coronavirus pandemic has upended every aspect of Colorado life. Interstate traffic jams at rush hour have been replaced by Zoom meetings and face masks. Health care workers worry about face…
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Coronavirus: What’s next? Lawmakers, industry leaders and officials give their best guess
-PHOTOS: Documenting COVID-19 in the Pikes Peak region It’s not hyperbolic to say that the coronavirus pandemic has upended every aspect of Colorado life. Interstate traffic jams at rush hour have been replaced by Zoom meetings and face masks. Health care workers worry about face masks and ventilators while legislators set aside deliberations on price…