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Colorado Parks and Wildlife sponsors 2025 International Sportsmen’s Expo
DENVER – Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is sponsoring and hosting educational booths at this year’s annual International Sportsmen’s Exposition at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver on Jan. 9-12, 2025. A digital coupon for a $3 discount off one adult ticket is available on the CPW website. The International Sportsmen’s Expo is […]
Colorado General Assembly looking to cut funding for wolf reintroduction program to cover shortfall for new budget
The hunt for coins in the couch cushions — the Colorado General Assembly’s budget crafters are scrambling to find hundreds of millions of dollars to cover a shortfall projected for the 2025-26 budget and are eyeing wolf funding as a potential area to cut — is getting pushback from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. And the agency has […]
New Colorado laws for 2025
You still might be getting used to the new laws that went into effect in 2024: the end of the U+2 residential occupancy rule, lane filtering for motorcycles, or the polystyrene and Styrofoam food container ban. Just around the corner, 2025 will bring more changes approved by the Colorado General Assembly. All eggs sold in Colorado must be cage-free […]
Colorado marijuana sales — and tax dollars — are still falling. The rise of intoxicating hemp may be to blame.
Industrialhemp grows on a farm south of Montrose. ( William Woody, Special to The Colorado Sun Marijuana sales peaked in Colorado in the 2020-21 budget year, when the state collected $424 million in taxes. That fell to $248 million last year. Forget the pandemic boom in marijuana sales — Colorado now collects fewer marijuana […]
Colorado owes taxpayers a total of 1.7 billion in TABOR refunds
The Colorado state government owes taxpayers a total of $1.7 billion in refunds mandated under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. The state collected roughly $1.4 billion more in revenue during the 2024 Fiscal Year than allowed under TABOR, according to a state audit. The state already has roughly $290 million in outstanding TABOR refund liability […]
USDA Crop Production November 1, 20224
CROP PRODUCTION – NOVEMBER 1, 2024 COLORADO HIGHLIGHTS On November 1 conditions, corn production in Colorado is forecast at 138.65 million bushels, according to the November 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. This forecast is down 6 percent from the October 1 forecast […]
Coloradans get TABOR refunds in 2025 though amount is lower than 2024’s
Coloradans are getting a present again in the New Year: TABOR refunds worth $1.7 billion. The money is from the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights program, which remits excess dollars paid in state revenue to eligible Colorado residents. This year’s TABOR refund is significantly lower than the prior year’s, which was $3.28 billion. However, Centennial State residents can […]
Managing water and irrigation in Colorado a complicated problem
You’ve heard the news: Farmers and ranchers use roughly 80% of the water in Colorado and much of the American West. So doesn’t it make sense that if growers and producers could just cut a bit of that, say 10%, we could wipe out all our water shortages? We probably couldn’t water our lawns with […]
Colorado Employment Situation for September 2024
Household survey data According to the survey of households, the number of unemployed individuals grew by 2,300 to 130,800 from August to September. However, due to rounding, Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged over the same time period at 4.0 percent. The national unemployment rate decreased one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.1 percent from August to September. […]
Colorado leaders announced a new tool Tuesday that will allow people in need of care from a hospital to search and compare prices across hospitals and insurance plans.
The Colorado Hospital Price Finder is a free online tool created by PatientRightsAdvocate.org, a national nonprofit that advocates health care price transparency, where Coloradans can search for procedure pricing by hospital, city or ZIP code. It uses data generated by a 2022 Colorado law that requires hospitals to disclose procedure pricing and prohibits them from pursuing debt collection if the […]
Colorado Parks and Wildlife honors K-9 officers with a retirement ceremony, a swearing-in ceremony and announcement of a new K-9 program
K-9 Officer Sci and his handler, Colorado Parks and Wildlife District Wildlife Manager Phil Gurule, were presented with a plaque honoring Sci’s retirement at Cheyenne Mountain State Park on Friday, Oct. 18. Photos by CPW Photographer Wayne Lewis. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As a formal Colorado Parks and Wildlife honor guard stood at attention, […]
New Laws to Support Rural Health Care, Increase Availability of Telehealth Services recently went into effect
SB24-055, sponsored by Senator Janice Marchman, D-Loveland, and Representative Meghan Lukens, D-Steamboat Springs, improves access to behavioral health care in rural Colorado by creating a new Agricultural and Rural Community Behavioral Health program that will work to better connect farmers, ranchers, and their families to behavioral health care. The program will partner with the […]
Former Prowers County Commissioner Wendy Buxton-Andrade one of four statewide recipients of AG’s Leadership awards September 30, 2024
Former Prowers County Commissioner Wendy Buxton-Andrade with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser as she is presented with the “Champion of the Year” Award Attorney General Phil Weiser honored 4 statewide leaders at the Colorado Communities in Action: Leadership Awards on September 30th with the Colorado Attorney General’s Excellence in Opioid Response Awards. Each awardee was […]
Colorado policymakers asked PERA what it would take to bolster its odds of full funding. The answer: $13 billion.
The Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association has less than a 50-50 chance of reaching its goal of full funding by 2048 Six years and billions of dollars into Colorado’s 30-year pension rescue plan, the Public Employees’ Retirement Association has less than a 50-50 chance of reaching its goal of full funding by 2048. PERA officials […]
Colorado Employment Situation – August 2024 – 7,400 Nonfarm Payroll Jobs Added in August; Unemployment Rate Rises to 4.0 Percent
Household survey data • According to the survey of households, Colorado’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased one-tenth of a percentage point in August to 4.0 percent. The last time the unemployment rate for Colorado reached 4.0% was in January 2022. The number of unemployed individuals grew by 2,200 over the same time period to 128,500. […]
