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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. A part-private plan, in which students pay more for costlier degrees, would offset cuts. As state funding cuts loom in 2011, leaders of the Colorado State University system have started considering an option unheard of in all but a handful of states: converting to a part-public, part-private structure in which students pay more for costlier degrees. CSU chief financial officer R...
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Talk Back: 10/4/09 - 10/11/09
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Saturday, October 10, 2009. Loophole costing Colorado millions in payments to legal immigrants. A loophole in state law allows elderly legal immigrants to receive the same pension poor, older Colorado residents get, regardless of whether the immigrants' families can provide for them. The pension program made headlines last week after it was announced that a Lakewood man bilked the state out of $1 million ...
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Talk Back: 11/16/08 - 11/23/08
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Tuesday, November 18, 2008. If you had a job, wed tell you where to buy your holiday gifts. These two stories are from the Colorado Springs Gazette. Focus on the Family eliminating 202 jobs. Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The "friendly" retail...
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Talk Back: 1/11/09 - 1/18/09
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Thursday, January 15, 2009. Lawmakers expect education to take biggest budget hit. DENVER - Will it be higher education? What about the Department of Public Safety? What if two dozen agencies will have their funding cut completely? That's pretty extreme. No agency is going to get it's funding completely cut. And if "agencies" means departments, we don't even have two dozen of them. We are completely boxed...
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Talk Back: 1/18/09 - 1/25/09
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Sunday, January 18, 2009. Colorado colleges must slash $30 million. We've been working for a while on a way to save higher education in Colorado. It's a complicated process and it's hard to explain in a news story. That's apparent by the comments after the article. Presidents want say on setting tuition. By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News (Contact). Published January 16, 2009 at 9:12 pm. Higher educat...
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Talk Back: 11/9/08 - 11/16/08
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Saturday, November 15, 2008. States economic decline creates roadblock for lawmakers pushing to pass Jessicas Law. Saturday, November 15, 2008. Low revenue forecasts and the state’s economic decline could hamstring a push by Western Slope Republican politicians to institute tougher minimum sentences and more oversight of sex offenders. Under Jessica’s Law, someone convicted of sexually assaulting a ...
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Talk Back: Loophole costing Colorado millions in payments to legal immigrants
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Saturday, October 10, 2009. Loophole costing Colorado millions in payments to legal immigrants. A loophole in state law allows elderly legal immigrants to receive the same pension poor, older Colorado residents get, regardless of whether the immigrants' families can provide for them. The pension program made headlines last week after it was announced that a Lakewood man bilked the state out of $1 million ...
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Talk Back: 2/22/09 - 3/1/09
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Words cant bury budget woes Senate, house meet on fiscal plan. Posted: 02/16/2009 12:30:00 AM MST. Updated: 02/16/2009 12:36:05 AM MST. An oxymoron has been in wide use this year at the Capitol: "negative supplemental.". Rep Jack Pommer, a member of the JBC, said the joint session is meant to bring other lawmakers up to speed on what has happened to the current year's budget.
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Talk Back: 11/30/08 - 12/7/08
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This is my running commentary on the media's running commentary on the legislature and other things. Saturday, December 6, 2008. School tax hikes OK for now, court says. Well this story's off to a good start. "School tax hikes OK." What tax hikes? The headline is more like a political sound bite than the start of a news story. By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News, Ed Sealover, Rocky Mountain News. What district is raising taxes? Opponents filed suit, saying it's an unconstitutional tax increase because i...
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