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Governor Signs Budget, Who Wins, Who Loses?

KUNC | By Brian Larson,

Jody Hope Strogoff

Published May 10, 2011 at 6:00 AM MDT

Colorado has a budget for next year following months of wrangling over steep cuts, namely to K-12 education. Governor Hickenlooper signed the state’s so-called “long bill” last Friday.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-967737.mp3StateKUNC’s Brian Larson spoke to Colorado Statesman Publisher Jody Hope Strogoff about some of the budget’s winners and losers.

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Jody Hope Strogoff

Jody Hope Strogoff is the editor and publisher of The Colorado Statesman. The Statesman is a non-partisan political weekly newspaper, founded in 1898. Jody began working at the newspaper in the late 1970s, later purchasing the publication in 1988. She discusses the state’s political scene each Tuesday at 6:35 and 8:35 during KUNC’s Morning Edition.

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