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New COVID-19 restrictions willweek prohibitwait indoor personal gatherings Coloradans face 10-12 fordining, unemployment pay Pandemic backlogs continue BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN It’s now taking 10 to 12 weeks for Coloradans to get new unemployment claims processed by the state Department of Labor and Employ-
ment. There hasn’t been a sudden rise in new claims. Rather, said Philip Spesshardt, director of CDLE’s division of unemployment insurance, it’s the older pandemic claims that are “now being adjudicated.” An executive order at the start of COVID-19 required the agency to pay benefits first and review them later. As of Monday, there
were 19,982 issues under adjudication. That’s down from more than 800,000 issues at the peak. There are usually multiple issues per claim leading Spesshardt to estimate that between 5,000 to 10,000 people may be impacted. Issues could include investigating whether the individual was eligible, whether it was COVID-19 related or whether there was a protest by a former employer. The
Big Boy roaring back through area Train to pass through on way to Denver for rail company’s 160th anniversary Big Boy is coming back through Brighton July 28, on its way to Denver’s Union Station. Union Pacific’s famed Big Boy No. 4014, a massive locomotive engine dating back to 1941, will make the trip from Cheyenne to Denver before 10 a.m. July 29. The train last roared through the area last August. The train will be on display and available for public viewing at Union Station from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 29 to honor Union
A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent SEE TRAIN, P3 weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and personal gatherings.
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severity of a county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out ofSEEthe state’s safer-atLEWIS, P4 COURTESY PHOTO As Denver metro counties continue to home order — the policy that came after inch closer to local stay-at-home orders the statewide stay-at-home order this under Colorado’s system of coronavirusspring and allowed numerous types of related restrictions, the state announced businesses to reopen. a new level of rules that prohibits indoor The state recently switched to color dining and personal gatherings — a identifiers — levels blue, yellow and change that applies to the majority of the orange rather than numbered levels — to Denver metro area and many counties in avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red other regions. meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has red — “severe risk” — is the secondbeen in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2 Colorado Community Media
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Adams 14 board of education President Ramona Lewis resigned. The announcement came from the district July 19; the resignation took effect July 17. Her term on the board began in 2019. A press statement said Lewis “demonstrated her strong leadership and unwavering commitment to the district’s students and community.” She was part of the process to hire Superintendent Karla Loria. leaves the based boardona the few county isLewis required to follow months after the state board
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agency must sort out claims of those who lost a job due to COVID from those who didn’t, which could impact an employer’s future unemployment insurance premiums. “There was 10 years (worth) of work that came in the door of this building and (new complexities) which we never had to deal with
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