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Connect For Health Colorado enters final week of 2018 Obamacare enrollment

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…

One county, two very different representatives: Tipton vs Polis

One county, two very different representatives: Tipton vs Polis

Eagle County, Colo., is a rural, mountain resort area with a population of about 53,000 people, but it has two representatives in Congress because of a split boundary, and those…

La Petite Academy preschools honored with national health, fitness award

La Petite Academy preschools honored with national health, fitness award

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been out of the White House for nearly a year, but her legacy of promoting youth fitness and a healthy diet lives on at…

New Rocky Mountain highs for Colorado insurance rates as ACA debate still rages

New Rocky Mountain highs for Colorado insurance rates as ACA debate still rages

As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallies the far left around a “single-payer” healthcare system and some Republicans try yet again to kill the Affordable Care Act, moderate attempts to bring…

Sept. 5 deadline looms for DACA — a nightmare for Colorado Dreamers

Sept. 5 deadline looms for DACA — a nightmare for Colorado Dreamers

DACA recipients, more commonly as “Dreamers”, have been heavily in the news of late — for all the wrong reasons. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was put in…

Colorado senators vote along party lines on health care motion to proceed

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…

Colorado SOS Williams hits back at Trump election commission after Kobach comments

Colorado SOS Williams hits back at Trump election commission after Kobach comments

Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams late last week pushed back against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity after its co-chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said Colorado voters…

Starting with visas, some lawmakers still working toward commonsense immigration reform

Starting with visas, some lawmakers still working toward commonsense immigration reform

Editor’s note: On Monday, July 17, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly announced a one-time increase in H-2B non-farm work visas of 15,000 for fiscal 2017. Commonsense and bipartisanship are…

Gardner vote on oil and gas methane rule targeted by conservation groups

Gardner vote on oil and gas methane rule targeted by conservation groups

Colorado’s conservation community cheered and energy-extraction groups condemned on Wednesday as the U.S. Senate voted 51-49 not to use the Congressional Review Act to rescind a U.S. Bureau of Land…

Spicer denial of Nazi chemical weapons use draws ire of Colorado congressman

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…