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Colorado's 'free lunch' school funding returns to the ballot
27 Oct 2025 16:31 GMT
… program were reducing hunger among Colorado children, improving academic outcomes by … limits or inflation protection, expand state spending, and entrench a new middle … students without interruption,” Hunger Free Colorado said in a statement supporting …
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Exclusive: Colorado lawmakers split over limits on taxes
24 Oct 2025 19:28 GMT
… “TABOR does not let Colorado be a responsible budgeting state … Plan Act of 2021, Colorado vastly increased taxpayer-funded … Common Sense Institute of Colorado disagreed.
He recently spoke … government knows best, and more government spending is better … So they …
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Notables: 25 years of Legislative Bills that Shaped Colorado
22 Oct 2025 10:54 GMT
… Referendums C and D: State Spending
Referendum C, which passed, … legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado. Yellow Scene Magazine … impacted towns like Erie, Colorado.
2020
Proposition 114: … Reintroduction
This measure directed Colorado Parks and Wildlife to …
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Tax Hikes And Tax Limits On The November Ballot In Colorado And Texas
21 Oct 2025 13:32 GMT
… which made all Colorado public school students eligible … “The measure would increase state spending by $33 million in … incomes (Colorado’s historical averages).”
While Colorado residents will … have political reverberations beyond Colorado, particularly in other …
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Emergency Medicaid for Undocumented Immigrants Is Less Than 1% of State Spending
10 Oct 2025 05:49 GMT
Emergency Medicaid spending for undocumented immigrants made up only 0.4% of total Medicaid spending in 2022, according to a new study published in JAMA.
Minimal Cost Per Resident
Researchers from Emory University, the University of Colorado Anschutz …
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As overdoses surge in Northern New Mexico, state spending on opioid crisis remains hidden
29 Sep 2025 16:47 GMT
This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Phoenix Division shows a closeup of fentanyl-laced sky blue pills. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP
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Counties and cities take lead in sharing uses of settlement funds …
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‘It has meant a lot for me’: Colorado families, school districts say free school meals program is keeping kids fed, reducing stress on parents
10 Oct 2025 03:18 GMT
… worry about that.
Under Colorado’s Healthy School Meals …
According to Hunger Free Colorado, roughly 100,000 more … government spending. A recent report from the Common Sense Institute, a Colorado … Along with boosting funding for Colorado’s school meals program, …
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Republican governor candidates oppose military troops in Colorado cities
04 Oct 2025 11:11 GMT
… of state legislation to lift Colorado’s restrictions on local … Goodland and Ernest Luning of Colorado Politics. It featured nine … has the endorsement of Owens.
Colorado currently has a trifecta, … across-the-board cut to state spending. She also said she would …
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Colorado’s free school meals program is back on the ballot this November. Here are 4 things to know.
02 Oct 2025 22:14 GMT
… grown food from Colorado farmers.
Because funding … Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger, Healthier Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado and the Colorado … government spending.
An Oct. 1 report titled “Colorado’ … with Hunger Free Colorado, said the increased …
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Senate Democrats — including Colorado’s Bennet and Hickenlooper — vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown
01 Oct 2025 00:04 GMT
… and Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats … and pass the legislation. Colorado’s two senators, Democrats … Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., speaks during a hearing …
While partisan stalemates over government spending are a frequent occurrence …