A new study ranks Colorado 14th in the nation for childhood immunization rates despite national surveys that show the state repeatedly falling below average. Dr. Edwin Asturias is one of the study’s authors.
Category: Colorado Government
Keep Colorado’s Obamacare exchange, scrap $5 million taxpayer subsidy
It cost $183 million in federal grants to build Connect for Health Colorado’s website, which offers Coloradans health insurance plans and tax credits under the Affordable Care Act. To walk away from that expensive online infrastructure now would be foolhardy.
Weed 101: Colorado agriculture agency shares pot know-how
North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity.
Weed 101: Colorado agriculture office shares pot know-how
In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Denver marijuana grower Tim Cullen, left, shows young marijuana clones to out-of-state agriculture officials on a grow warehouse tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. Colorado’s Agriculture Department is opening up its marijuana knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law.
End sought to state health care exchange
Regardless of what Republicans and President Donald Trump do in Congress when it comes to Obamacare, a Colorado state senator wants to do away with the state’s health care exchange. Freshman Sen. Jim Smallwood, R-Parker, said the state’s exchange, Connect for Health Colorado, isn’t working and needs to go away.
Dion’s
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert due to the concerns that assorted sliced deli meat products were served to customers at Dion’s in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The sliced roast beef, ham, pastrami and turkey items were produced between Dec. 14, 2016 and Dec. 29, 2016, however product may have been available in restaurant locations through Jan. 4, 2017.
New legislative session brings $500B deficit, uncertainty
… As it stands, Hickenlooper’s budget requires $500 million in transfers, cuts or delayed spending on transit, health care and other programs. All of it must comply with the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which limits the revenues the state can …