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Other news summaries

Grasscatcher, from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Today's Health News, from The Colorado Trust

Colorado daily news roundup, from Stateline

Daily Health Policy Report, from Kaiser Health News
Wildfire tests police force in Colorado anti-tax movement's home
Fiscal Policy

Bloomberg: Wildfire Tests Police Force in Colorado Anti-Tax Movement's Home

As Colorado Springs battles a rash of burglaries after a wildfire that still licks at its boundaries, it does so with fewer police and firefighters. 

 

Denver Post: Congress took $20 billion from Treasury fund to pay for transit bill

Last week, lawmakers in Congress approved a bill that keeps highway and transit spending at current levels for the next two years, but there was a catch: They came up nearly $20 billion short. 

 

Health Care
By CCLP's Health Program Director Elisabeth Arenales

If you read Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as anything, read it as a victory for the more than 2 million Coloradans who have gained access to health care or expanded access to services they have always needed. 

 
Colorado will get $4.5 million from the record health care fraud settlement that the federal government announced with pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline on Monday.
 
Jobs and the Economy

Some businesses may have only been closed for a day and others for seven, but the cities of Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs are feeling the impact of the Waldo Canyon fire.