Brian Eason
Politics and Policy Reporter at The Colorado Sun
Politics and policy reporter @ColoradoSun | reluctant tweeter
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2 days ago |
coloradosun.com | Brian Eason
Two months before the news broke that the Trump administration might try to end federal support for the Head Start preschool program, Boulder County got a letter denying its annual request for federal funding. Like many counties across the state, Boulder was already struggling to pay for early childhood programs like preschool and child care. And the state of Colorado — facing a budget crunch of its own — was in no position to come to the rescue.
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3 days ago |
coloradosun.com | Brian Eason
Colorado lawmakers on Monday gave final approval to a $43.9 billion spending plan that cuts funding for transportation projects, local governments and dozens of social programs in order to keep up with the rising costs of health care and education. But as difficult as this year’s budget was, there was widespread acknowledgement that — one way or another — the state’s financial picture is only expected to get worse from here. “Next year is going to be very bad,” said Sen.
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6 days ago |
coloradosun.com | Brian Eason |Jesse Paul
This time two years ago, state lawmakers went out of their way to make sure local governments wouldn’t suffer financially from legislative and ballot efforts to deliver property tax relief. How times have changed. As the property tax cuts grew and the state’s own budget picture deteriorated, the state steadily scaled back its promises to cover the costs to local governments.
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1 week ago |
coloradosun.com | Brian Eason |Jesse Paul
Republican Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer really wants people to know that Colorado’s hospital provider fee was created for hospitals. “It is for hospitals,” she said on the Senate floor last week. Across a 15-minute speech, the Brighton lawmaker kept saying it, reading aloud at times from state law to reinforce that the fee-based enterprise program was designed to support hospitals, and hospitals alone.
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2 weeks ago |
montrosepress.com | Brian Eason
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