Good morning. Here's a look at news reports from around the state on issues of interest to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy for Friday, July 9, 2010. Listing does not imply endorsement of the content.
HEALTH POLICY
The Denver Post: Small Colorado firms get health perks
Workers at small businesses in Colorado soon can earn extra vacation time, wear-jeans-to-work days and discounts on their insurance premiums by improving their health. Before recent changes in state law, insurance companies were forbidden from offering incentives to small businesses that set up wellness programs for their employees.
Colorado Springs Gazette: Memorial commission knocks status quo, likes nonprofit option
What’s good about the current governance structure of Memorial Health System? Not much, according to the commission weighing what to do with the city-owned hospital system.
FISCAL POLICY
Colorado Independent: Springs mayor says TABOR timeout response ‘positive’
Colorado Springs Mayor Lionel Rivera Wednesday told the Colorado Independent the response to his call last week for a three-year timeout from the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) has been totally positive.
Fort Collins Coloradoan commentary: Low taxes linked to unemployment
... We are in economic dire straits because tax rates are too low.
ECONOMY
Fort Collins Coloradoan: 2009 county job losses greater than expected
Larimer County ended 2009 with a 4.2 percent job loss, a decline that took more than $50 million out of the local economy in lost wages in the last three months of the year.
ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Summit Daily News: Summit County awarded $99,776 for down-payment assistance program
Gov. Bill Ritter has announced that $99,776 has been awarded to Summit County to continue funding for an existing down-payment assistance program operated by the Summit Combined Housing Authority.
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