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Connect For Health Colorado enters final week of 2018 Obamacare enrollment
Connect For Health Colorado, the state’s Obamacare exchange that has seen record enrollment so far this year, is in its final week of signing people up for 2018 individual or…
Hickenlooper calls out Trump’s move to repeal EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday pushed back against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which dramatically reduces emissions from coal-fired power plants…
Bennet: ‘GOP willing to let people die’ to score political points on health care
As Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner faces tough telephone town-hall questions on his unsuccessful health care votes and U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., touts bipartisan reform solutions, Colorado Democratic Sen.…
Bennet blasts Trump support for RAISE Act to slash legal immigration
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet on Wednesday tweeted that President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce legal immigration by 50 percent and make it a more merit-based system will harm not help…
Colorado senators vote along party lines on health care motion to proceed
Republican senators on Tuesday narrowly approved a motion to proceed to debate on a health care bill meant to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act and possibly replace it with…
Governor calls on senators to ‘stand up for Colorado’ with health care vote
With the Senate poised to vote on some sort of health care bill today, starting with a simple motion to proceed that appears to be in trouble, Democratic Colorado Gov.…
Hickenlooper cheers removal of Canyons of the Ancients from Trump hit list
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday lauded a decision by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to essentially leave Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado alone, with…
Morgan Stanley provides $10,000 grant to Food Bank of the Rockies to expand fresh produce program
DENVER, Colo. – The Food Bank of the Rockies on Monday announced a new grant from the Morgan Stanley Foundation to support the food bank’s fresh produce program. The funds…
CSRxP launches campaign in Colorado to hold big pharma accountable for out-of-control drug prices
“My family’s prescription drug costs can sometimes exceed $650 per month – and that’s with good insurance coverage. While we are fortunate enough to afford the cost of the medications,…
Spicer denial of Nazi chemical weapons use draws ire of Colorado congressman
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Boulder, Colo., sharply criticized White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s denial that Adolf Hitler used chemical weapons during World War II. Spicer made…
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