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State of Colorado asks public hospitals to return nearly $60M in response to failed lawsuit against UCHealth
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please also read the news release from Prowers Medical Center’s CEO Karen Bryant regarding their reaction to the repayment requests from HCPF. It is a separate post titled “Prowers Medical Center issues statement regarding Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing asking rural hospitals to return provider fee reimbursements” Author: Marshall Zelinger/9News.com COLORADO, USA […]
Colorado Employment Situation – May 2025 – Unemployment rate unchanged
Nonfarm Payroll Jobs Increase by 3,400 in May; Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 4.8 Percent Household survey data According to the survey of households, the number of unemployed individuals decreased by 100 to 158,700 from April to May. Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged over the same time period at 4.8 percent. The national unemployment rate remained unchanged at […]
Six rural Colorado hospitals could close if Republican tax bill passes
Delta Health Hospital By Meg Wingerter | mwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: June 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM MDT Six rural Colorado hospitals could close in the coming years if Congress adopts the more than $600 million in Medicaid cuts currently included in the Republican tax bill, according to projections commissioned by Senate Democrats. The listed hospitals are spread […]
GOP cuts to food assistance could start vicious cycle, Polis tells Congress
The Republican tax bill could push food assistance in Colorado into a vicious cycle of funding cuts, increasing mistakes in determining eligibility and further funding cuts to punish those mistakes, Gov. Jared Polis warned in a letter to congressional leaders Friday. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed the House and is currently in the Senate, would […]
City of Lamar Sales and Use Tax Report
April Sales and Use Tax Collected in May 2025 2025 2024 Difference from 2024 to 2025 % of Difference City Sales Tax Collected (3%) $400,437.66 $365,478.72 $34,958.94 9.57% Use Tax Collected $41,919.26 $37,407.63 $4,511.63 12.06% Other Collections (penalties/interest/Licenses etc $3,966.74 $1,471.21 $2,525.53 171.66% TOTAL SALES/USE TAX COLLECTIONS $446,353.66 $404,357.56 $41,996.10 10.39% Vendor’s Commission […]
City’s Sales and Use Tax Report presented to City Council at May 12 meeting
The city’s Sales and Use tax report was presented to Lamar City Council at the May 12, 2025 meeting. The report was for March taxes collected in April. While March was down 3.10% from last year in the amount of $15,425.07, year to date numbers rose higher. Total taxes collected so far in 2025 are […]
Colorado Employment Situation — April 2025
8,400 Nonfarm Payroll Jobs Added in April; Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 4.8% Household survey data According to the survey of households, the number of unemployed individuals increased by 2,100 to 158,700 from March to April. Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged over the same time period at 4.8 percent. The national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.2 percent […]
American Dairy Coalition opposes new FDA Healthy Labeling Rule
American Dairy Coalition, an organization of advocacy by dairy farmers for dairy farmers, has filed an official comment at the Federal Register on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Healthy Labeling Rule and proposed Front-of-Package rating label for saturated fat, sodium and added sugar. The FDA recently extended the public comment period to July 15, 2025. The […]
City Sales and Use Tax March 2025 – increase of 5.62% over 2024’s March report
February Sales and Use Tax Collected in March 2025 2025 2024 Difference 2024 to 2025 % of Difference City Sales Tax Collected (3%) $358,690.09 $323,839.56 $34,850.53 10.76% Use Tax Collected $29,081.76 $43,440.70 -$14,358.94 -33.05% Other Collections (penalties, interest,licences, A/Rs) $1,677.77 $1,456.97 $220.80 15.15% TOTAL SALES/USE TAX COLLECTIONS $389,449.62 $368,737.23 $20,712.39 5.62% Vendor’s Commission […]
Colorado ranchers in uproar over feds’ high-voltage power corridor
Rancher Bob Bamber leans against his truck near a power substation across the road from his family’s ranch outside Lamar For Bob Bamber, the connection goes back to his great-great-grandfather, who homesteaded north of Pritchett, a tiny Baca County town of barely 100 people not far from the Oklahoma state line. So the 44-year-old rancher […]
3,900 Nonfarm Payroll Jobs Added in January; Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.7 Percent
Household survey data According to the survey of households, Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point in January to 4.7 percent compared to the revised December rate of 4.6 percent. The number of unemployed individuals grew by 2,600 over the same time period to 152,800. The national unemployment rate decreased one-tenth of a percentage […]
Colorado Department of Revenue Announces Income Tax Processing Is Now Open, Shares Tax Benefits Information Hub to Help Coloradans Save Money
DENVER, February 21, 2025 — The Colorado Department of Revenue today announced that the state has started processing income tax returns from third-party services and shared a new, online tax benefits hub to help taxpayers save potentially thousands of dollars. Found at Tax.Colorado.gov/SaveMoney, the new online resource offers tax benefits information in an easy-to-understand format and […]
Colorado’s budget hole is now $1.2 billion, as Medicaid costs continue to climb
The rise in Medicaid costs, which have continued unabated since last spring, remain the single biggest driver of the state’s budget woes The Joint Budget Committee meets at the Colorado Capitol complex in Denver on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun) Colorado’s looming budget shortfall just keeps getting worse. In […]
Colorado unemployment rises to 4.4%, but state of job market murky due to data issues
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics won’t release job numbers for Colorado in March as dramatic revisions have sparked concerns over state data accuracy. Colorado’s unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in December, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, up from 4.3% the month before. The state’s unemployment rate is more than a […]
ARPA Board adopts 2025 budget at December 2024 meeting
ARPA Board Adopts 2025 Budget: At its December 5, 2024, meeting the ARPA Board of Directors approved its operating budget for 2025 in the amount of $22,797,964. There will be an 8% rate reduction for 2025. This follows on the heels of two previous rate decreases, 3.57% in 2021, and 2% in 2019. The 2025 budget includes: Revenues of […]
