Posts Tagged ‘General Assembly’

Georgia Passes “Arizona-style” Immigration Bill

Maryland grants in-state tuition to illegal aliensBy Mike Bauman  This week the Georgia General Assembly passed a bill that would, among other things, empower police officers to check an individual’s immigration status if the person is unable to produce any form of identification or give basic details that could help officers verify his or her [...]

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Colorado Division of Wildlife and State Parks to Merge

DOW Insider Newsletter- The Colorado Division of Wildlife and Colorado State Parks would merge into a new agency under one board and one administration on July 1 under legislation that will soon be submitted to the General Assembly, Gov. John Hickenlooper told a joint meeting of the Colorado Wildlife Commission and the State Parks Board. Addressing the joint meeting in the Hunter Education building [...]

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Pinnacol Under Fire

By Mike Bauman On the heels of a $300,000 trip to a lavish resort in Pebble Beach by Pinnacol Assurance Executives, the Colorado General Assembly is considering the removal of  Pinnacol’s tax-exempt status.  Pinnacol Assurance is the state’s quasi-governmental worker’s compensation insurance program. Pinnacol has never had to pay state taxes.  The change in its status [...]

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Does Greeley Need Another Middle School?

By Mike Bauman The School Board’s District Advisory Committee recently said in a report to the Board of Education, they could find little evidence that School District 6 needed additional choices at the middle school level. A review of the facts reported this past year shows another picture. The most recent CSAP scores shows District [...]

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