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Rural Hospitals Deploy AI to Fight AI as Claim Denials Add Financial Pressure

Rural hospitals in Colorado say they are being pulled into a technological fight they didn’t choose.

Hospitals said insurance companies have deployed artificial intelligence to deny claims faster and more efficiently, and they are scrambling to adopt their own AI tools to defend their revenue — even as they struggle with shrinking margins, aging populations and service cuts.

Greg Lopez Puts People Over Parties in Unaffiliated Bid for Colorado Governor

In KJCT’s continuing coverage of Colorado’s gubernatorial race, reporter Brianna Chappie spoke with unaffiliated-party nominee candidate, Greg Lopez, ahead of his campaign visit on Saturday.

Lopez is an air force veteran, and seasoned politician— having served as mayor for the town of Parker, a Colorado Director for the Small Business Administration (SBA) and recently as a House Representative for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Colorado Schools Face New Reality as Student Enrollment Keeps Falling

Colorado public schools went from adding roughly 3,500 students a year before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to losing nearly 4,000 students a year afterward.

As more than 870,000 Colorado students return to the classroom for another school year, they are part of a shrinking population since enrollment peaked in 2019. Colorado has 40,000 fewer students today than it did at its apex.

Gun rights and Phil Weiser: an answer that stops at Heller

After reading about a curious statement AG Weiser made during the 8/27 gubernatorial debate. That debate in full is linked below.

The remarks I reference relate to gun control and begin at about the 52:40 mark in the video when candidate Weiser was asked (quoting from the transcript):

“Any laws the legislature has passed you disagree with, and does the state need to go further?”

Candidate Weiser goes on to equivocate for some time before pausing and allowing one of the moderators to come back with a follow up, get an actual answer to the question.

“And I’ll give you 30 seconds, but just real quickly, any laws on the books that you disagree with?”

Weiser then replies with the following:

“Because I’ve worked with the legislature as they’ve crafted laws. I’ve made sure they meet the basic standard Justice Scalia set out in the Heller decision that says reasonable restrictions on access to firearms are consistent with the Second Amendment. Something like a red flag law is a clear reasonable restriction. If you’re a danger to yourself or others, getting access to a firearm is playing with fire. We can avoid it and we can save lives.”

Again, put aside Weiser’s mushy non-answer. Also put aside the fact that he references only one law of many on the books in Colorado. Focus here on what our state’s attorney general, our state’s attorney, the one representing our legal interests, has to say about the state of firearm jurisprudence.

It seems to stop at Heller, a decision that was handed down in 2008.

Another error from Griswold’s office exposes confidential voter records for 11 days

For 11 days in August, the profiles of Colorado voters who had specifically asked the state to keep their information hidden were searchable by anyone who knew where to look and had the information the tool required.

These are people the state allows to shield their records because they said public disclosure could expose them or a household member to criminal harassment or bodily harm. 

On August 14, an update to the Secretary of State’s “find my voter registration” tool removed the setting that kept their records out of public view. The office didn’t notice until the late afternoon of August 25.

Fifty-nine of those profiles were pulled up before anyone caught the mistake.

The Resourcefulness Weapon: Little Bo-Peep 

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn’t know where to find them; leave them alone, and they’ll come home, wagging their tails behind them.

Poor Little Bo-Peep would have made a terrible investigator. Imagine asking her a few basic questions: “Ma’am, when did you last see your sheep? Did you search the pasture? Check the gate? Follow their tracks? Talk to anyone who might have seen them?” Apparently, the answer to all of the above would have been no. Her investigative strategy was much simpler: Leave them alone, and they’ll come home.

Cute nursery rhyme. Terrible source management.

During my years in the Air Force, particularly through my experience with the Office of Special Investigations, I learned the importance of being resourceful. When you’re trying to determine what actually happened, you don’t simply accept the first explanation that comes along. You ask questions, seek evidence, talk to people, knock on doors—sometimes literally—and follow one source until it leads to another. You keep looking because ultimately you’re after something that matters: TRUTH!

Colorado Road Funding Deal Could Pull Initiative 175 From November Ballot

A deal could keep Colorado voters from deciding on a major road funding measure this November. Backers of Initiative 175, known as the Restore Our Roads measure, have agreed to pull it from the ballot under a tentative agreement with state lawmakers, CBS Colorado’s Your Political Reporter, Shaun Boyd, has learned.

AOC Renews Democratic Socialists Membership Amid 2028 White House Buzz

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has officially rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America group.