There’s good and bad news for the health care reforms passed last year (and which Republicans hope to decimate this year).
First the good: Thanks to the law, a record amount of money was recovered from fraudulent Medicare claims last year.
The Department of Health and Human Services recovered a total of $4 billion last year. Now [...] [...]
Colorado voters on Tuesday soundly rejected three restrictive tax-and-debt ballot measures that analysts warned would spell economic gloom in the state for decades.
Voters also defeated a proposal that opponents claimed would ban abortion.
The tax-and-debt measures drew the most attention this year. Fearing anti-government sentiment would generate support among voters, business and political leaders from across [...] [...]
Gloom and despair – and a radically reduced state government – that’s what community leaders promised if Amendments 60 and 61, and Proposition 10, all pass in November.
An array of leaders from the business, legal and educational communities spoke at a rally this morning concerning the “devastating” effects that can be expected if amendments 60 [...] [...]
Qwest Communications International Inc., which recently agreed to be acquired by a smaller phone company, on Wednesday said its first-quarter earnings tumbled 82 percent due to one-time tax charges.
Its revenue fell 6.5 percent as customers continued to cancel land lines.
Qwest, the country’s third-largest local phone company, said it earned $38 million, or 2 cents per [...] [...]
Colorado lawmakers are hoping to avoid the chaos that erupted in 2001 when the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-dominated Senate failed to agree on Colorado’s new congressional district.
In 2002, a Denver District Court judge drew his own congressional map, saying lawmakers failed to do their jobs. In 2003, Republicans changed the law, telling courts how to [...] [...]
Peak Vista Community Health Centers opened a senior care clinic this week at 722 S. Wasatch St.
It’s the second senior health clinic operated by the group, which focuses on the underserved and uninsured population in the Pikes Peak region. Peak Vista also operates an Immediate Care center at 2502 East Pikes Peak Ave.
The new center is [...] [...]
Spurred on by the then-booming economy during 2007, Colorado legislators and liberal interest groups were poised to load the 2008 ballot with revenue-enhancing proposals — or, less politely, new taxes.
Interviewed by the Denver Post during October of 2007, then-House Speaker Andrew Romanoff said, “If I had to choose today between providing health care for every [...] [...]
Office Depot is offering free resume printing and faxing April 19 through May 30 at any of its 1,100 locations.
Job hunters can print up to 25 single-sided pages of resumes, and fax to five domestic numbers, up to 25 pages total.
Even before the offer, Office Depot representatives said rising unemployment rates have already caused an [...] [...]
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center will receive $1.4 million from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for its Summer Work Experience program.
Youths, ages 16 to 24, can gain paid work experience, from May 1 to September 30.
“We hope to create 300 work experiences this summer,” said Jeanne Cotter, spokeswoman for PPWFC. “Three hundred [...] [...]
Women who have their dream job and want to help others along the career path will unite with women who are entering the work force during the Junior League of Colorado Springs third annual Mentor Walk.
The walk is scheduled for 8 a.m. May 2 at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Attendees will be matched [...] [...]
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