Tag: Pandemic
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Colorado Supreme Court considers whether refunds available for CSU’s pandemic campus closure
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court considered on Wednesday whether students at Colorado State University had a viable claim for refunds after the school closed its campus temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic while still retaining their fees. On behalf of all people who paid student tuition and…
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Colorado purges 500,000 from Medicaid rolls with public health emergency ‘unwind’
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic — with the Medicaid rolls swollen with out-of-work and uninsured Coloradans — state decided to keep tabs on enrollees. It ended up being a fortuitous decision. As Medicaid is the nation’s health care safety net for the low income and the disabled, this cohort often share similar hurdles: frequent…
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10th Circuit in Denver throws out challenge to military’s now-rescinded COVID vaccine mandate
The federal appeals court based in Denver dismissed an attempt by two ex-military personnel to halt the U.S. Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement, recognizing on Thursday that the government had already rescinded the mandate and there was nothing for the court to block. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Colorado Supreme Court rules commercial property owners not entitled to 2020 tax relief due to pandemic
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In four separate cases encompassing hundreds of commercial property owners, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying public health restrictions on businesses did not entitle the owners to a lower property tax bill for 2020. Eleven lawsuits across Colorado challenged…
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Powwow attendees can enjoy festivities, free COVID-19 vaccine | HEALTHY BITES
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save COVID-19 ain’t over just yet. Organizers for a federal initiative to increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines want the public — especially the vulnerable — to know that getting inoculated is the best defense. The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment will be providing…
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Estimated 325,000 Coloradans will lose Medicaid with end of COVID-19 public health emergency
With the federal government’s COVID-19 public health emergency set to end in May, an estimated 325,000 Coloradans face losing Medicaid coverage. To put that number into perspective, Colorado enrolled 400,000 people in the first two years of the state’s Medicaid expansion in 2014. “The magnitude of transitioning that number of people hasn’t been seen since…
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Colorado marijuana sales tank in 2022 after pandemic-induced high
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following a pandemic “high,” Colorado cannabis sales have been plummeting for months. Sales skyrocketed for the cannabis industry in the beginning of 2022, a trend that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, cannabis industry officials are seeing the other side of the…
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Colorado sees flat unemployment rate, signaling a return to normal
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Colorado’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in September at 3.4%, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. The number of unemployed fell by 2,200 from the month before, but the unemployment rate stayed unchanged due to rounding, according to the report. Colorado Springs hotel lodging sees boost in September Ryan Gedney, a senior economist with…
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Downtown Denver visitor level almost to pre-pandemic levels, report shows
The Downtown Denver Partnership’s 67th annual “State of Downtown” report shows things are looking up for the Mile High City, after downtown was all-but emptied of visitors and office workers by the pandemic in 2020. After a low of 40,000 downtown visitors per day in April of 2020, visitation has come roaring back in 2022…