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Race-based bullying is on the rise in Mesa County. The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Katie Langford reports that hurtful messages have been circulated in the hallways and on the playgrounds of schools in District 51 since the election. One elementary school teacher said comments she’s heard from young students are unprecendented after nine years teaching, including use of the N-word on the playground and boys objectifying girls’ bodies at a younger age. The biggest problem thus far has been that while many parents and community members have told district administrators that students are being bullied or harassed, most are unwilling to identify the person who did it, fearing retaliation.
One of the questions KDNK asked Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne when we spoke at her office in the State Capitol earlier this month was about the immediate impacts if President-Elect Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to repeal ObamaCare. What would that mean for folks who were covered for the first time thanks to the expansion of Medicaid and how might changes affect the budget here in Colorado. Here’s former Kaiser Permanante executive and Colorado’s Chief Operating Officer, Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne.
In the most recent issue of Elevations, the quarterly publication of the Colorado Health Foundation, editor Michael Booth writes about how telehealth will impact rural parts of the state. Maeve Conran, news director at our partner station KGNU in Boulder, spoke to him about the changing ways doctors are meeting with their patients. Thanks to KGNU for sharing the audio.
Fifty-year-old cartoons of characters like George Jetson talking to their doctors on a new-fangled videophone are no longer science fiction in Colorado. Eric Galatas explains.
