On Wednesday, a panel of top Colorado healthcare executives warned that federal cuts to Medicaid, under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado’s wider health care system, pushing up costs and the number of uninsured people across the state.
Last Thursday, the Republican Women of Weld hosted a Special Session Legislative Update at Ben’s Brick Oven Pizza in Hudson. The event featured State House Minority Whip Carlos Barron (R-Fort Lupton), State Representative Lori Garcia-Sander (R-Eaton), State Representative Dusty Johnson (R-Fort Morgan), State Representative Ryan Gonzalez (R-Greeley), and State Representative Dan Woog (R-Erie). About twenty-five people were in attendance.
“Move ahead. Do not look back,” was former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’ advice for when things get difficult. Giffords survived an assassination attempt, which was part of a mass shooting that killed six people, in 2011. Giffords, a Democrat, has since worked toward the prevention of gun violence and the passing of gun safety laws.
GREELEY — “The richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, is heading up DOGE, and one of the first acts of DOGE was the dismantling of the agency which is critically responsible for protecting people from big banks and Wall Street abuses, from big tech, from all of the ways in which people are getting screwed over by corporations,” said David Seligman, executive director of Towards Justice, a progressive advocacy group, at a news event at Bittersweet Park in Greeley on Monday.
“U.S. mail is not for sale,” was the chant heard at the intersection of College and Mulberry in Fort Collins this Sunday as about 100 people turned out for a rally in support of the U.S. Postal Service.
At a Greeley town hall meeting on Tuesday, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet said social media and the internet destroyed journalism, and it’s time to figure out how to use technology “not to destroy our democracy but to reinforce it and to strengthen it.”
On Saturday, protesters gathered in Ft. Collins, holding signs, playing instruments, and claiming, without evidence, that jailed Mesa County election official Tina Peters is innocent.
