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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. […]
The Department of Local Affairs Receives Nearly $10 Million From U.S. Department of Energy to Support Economic and Workforce Development in Southeast Colorado
SOUTHEAST, CO – The Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) is proud to announce that its Southeast Economic Development Grant Program (SEED Grant Program) has been selected as one of 20 projects nationwide to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Transmission Siting and Economic Development Grants Program through the Grid Deployment Office. The program will receive […]
County assessors in Colorado offer mixed views on property tax compromise
County assessors from around the state offered their insights into the compromise legislation that lawmakers approved at the conclusion of a special session on Thursday. The product of negotiations between Gov. Jared Polis, legislators, and the groups behind a pair of ballot initiatives seeking deeper property tax cuts, House Bill 1001 is relatively similar to […]
Infighting among Republicans in Colorado continues regarding Dave Williams
Chairman of the Colorado Republican Party Dave Williams speaks in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) At closed-door GOP meeting, supporters of Dave Williams reaffirm him as chair as dispute drags on What comes next in the conflict isn’t clear. But the dispute over the […]
Colorado FFA Foundation Seeks Nominees for 2025 Farm Credit Colorado Agriculture Hall of Fame
Greeley, Colo. – Colorado Future Farmers of America (FFA) Foundation is seeking a wide range of nominations to the annual Farm Credit Colorado Agriculture Hall of Fame induction. Individuals are encouraged to nominate anyone who is making, or has made an extraordinary impact on Colorado‘s agriculture industry and its allied businesses, regardless of age. Potential […]
Cost of Living is Coloradans’ biggest concern
The Colorado Health Foundation’s annual Pulse Poll this year finds Coloradans believe they face a number of significant challenges — beyond rising cost-of-living concerns — that include drug overdoses, immigration and natural disasters. Still, the single most concern for nearly nine out of 10 respondents was the growing burden of household expenses. Affordability worries, shared […]
