Colorado lawmakers aim to ‘assert state authority’ amid federal gaps on vaccines, worker safety and other issues

Colorado lawmakers aim to ‘assert state authority’ amid federal gaps on vaccines, worker safety and other issues

For months, Monument mom Ashley Sutton has waited for the federal government to help her daughter access the education she legally deserves. Dr. Edwin Asturias, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, has tried to help patients navigate shifting federal guidance on vaccines. And worker safety advocates have winced at attempts to roll back federal safety regulations that they say will leave workers facing unnecessarily d…