By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon of Solutions and Rebecca Jones of Education News Colorado
The federal government is cracking down on medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado for the first time, today ordering 23 dispensaries near schools to shut down within 45 days or face criminal prosecution and seizure of their property.U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent warning letters to the unidentified dispensaries and said in a news release that many are closer than 1,000 feet to K-12 campuses.
“When the voters of Colorado passed the limited medical marijuana amendment in 2000, they could not …

By Burt Hubbard
I-News Network
The coming federal health care reform will give a half million more Coloradans health insurance, but will not overwhelm the state’s health system, a new study released Monday found.
The study by the Colorado Health Institute found that the state will need up to 141 new primary-care doctors and other health professionals by 2016. That’s a 3% increase in the workforce to serve the expected 510,000 newly insured Coloradans.
The impact is a lot less than health officials had feared, said Michele Lueck, president of the Colorado Health Institute, …

By Laura Frank and Burt Hubbard
I-News Network
One of every six Coloradans has no health insurance – a figure that has grown more than 20 percent in the past two years alone, a new statewide survey finds.
In addition, more workers lack health insurance and fewer Coloradans reported having a regular place to go when they’re sick or need health care advice.
“We’ve lost ground,” said Ned Calonge, who recently left his post as chief medical officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to become president and chief operating officer …

I-News is all about collaborating.
For our most recent investigation, we collaborated in two directions: locally and nationally. We worked with our media partners across the state, as we usually do. And we worked with National Public Radio.
So our report on disabled Coloradans who want out of nursing homes gave citizens an in-depth look at this issue on the very local level – with details on what was happening in their own cities and counties across the state – and gave them the context of developments at the national level, from …

Officials at the University of Colorado know about a pattern of alleged date-rape drug use at a fraternity in Boulder, but say the law prevents them from naming the fraternity to police.
An investigation of sexual assault on college campuses found CU and others colleges across Colorado are withholding information about sexual assaults against students.