Geoff Mulvihill

Extra unemployment aid expires as coronavirus threatens new states

July 24, 2020 at 12:32 p.m.

As public health officials warned Friday that the coronavirus posed new risks to parts of the Midwest and South, enhanced federal payments that helped avert financial ruin for millions of...

Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again

July 7, 2020 at 11:23 a.m.

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its...

Sports betting’s rapid expansion faces more tests in 2020

December 18, 2019 at 3:25 p.m.

Sports wagers can be made legally in 13 states, while sportsbooks have been legalized in another half-dozen -- including Colorado 鈥� where they're not yet running.

Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy as part of settlement

September 15, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York, days after reaching a tentative settlement with many of the...

OxyContin maker reaches tentative opioid-crisis settlement, but Colorado is not part of the deal

September 11, 2019 at 3:02 p.m.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic, but criticism...

Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement

July 29, 2019 at 3:39 p.m.

The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are...

In this April 3, 2019 file photo, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington following a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question

April 28, 2019 at 5:05 p.m.

It's not just Democratic-leaning states at risk of losing federal money and clout in Congress if the Supreme Court says the upcoming census can include a citizenship question.

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Local jurisdictions pay the price for nation鈥檚 opioid crisis

March 27, 2019 at 4:41 p.m.

As the nation's opioid crisis has devastated thousands of families, it also has taken a crippling financial toll on cities, small towns and counties around the country.

Some lawmakers worry about allowing sports bets on phones

March 17, 2019 at 12:50 p.m.

For states looking to profit off the new world of legal sports betting, there鈥檚 an app for that. The question for state lawmakers: Should they allow it?

Lawsuits ramp up pressure on family that owns opioid company that makes OxyContin

January 18, 2019 at 12:00 p.m.

The legal pressure on the prominent family behind the company that makes OxyContin, the prescription painkiller that helped fuel the nation's opioid epidemic, is likely to get more intense.

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