Aid is caught in red tape

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Aid is
caught
in red
tape
Disability systems
across the nation are
out of compliance.
By Jennifer Brown
and David Migoya
The Denver Post
Colorado community centers
that manage public money for
people with disabilities have
grown into multimillion-dollar
enterprises embedded with what
federal authorities are condemning as conflicts of interest.
The same agencies that have the
power to decide whether a Colorado family is eligible for benefits
for a disabled child also are allowed to provide that care themselves, often own the group home
where the child could live and
may even own the construction
company the family hires to build
a wheelchair ramp at their home.
And those agencies can bill the
state for all of those services.
If a person with disabilities is
abused, injured or killed while receiving care, regulations require
the case-management agency to
investigate the incident.
Federal authorities rewrote
rules in 2014 to put an end to conflict of interest in disability systems across the country, although
Colorado and several other states
remain out of compliance.
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing moments after dropping
Liston with a short hard right to the jaw for a first-round knockout on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Associated Press file
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He was the most culturally iconic, transcendent sports figure of all time. And the
prettiest, if he often did say so himself. Charismatic, principled, generous, outspoken,
vilified early in his professional career, adored later, Muhammad Ali was also an activist,
humanitarian, conscientious war objector and three-time heavyweight champion. ¶ Ali
died late Friday at age 74 after being hospitalized in the Phoenix area with respiratory
problems earlier in the week. Arguably the most symbolic personality of the turbulent
and eclectic decade of the 1960s, he fought a 33-year bout with Parkinson’s disease. His
funeral will be held Friday in his hometown, Louisville, Ky.
“There were a lot of major sports stars who emerged
in that decade: Arnold Palmer, Vince Lombardi, Joe
Namath, Wilt Chamberlain,’’ said Paul Gallender, an
author and expert on heavyweight boxers of the 1960s.
“But Ali, he took the stage. He loved the stage. It’s so
ironic that a guy who was probably the most vocal athlete of all time wound up as a prisoner in his own body
and for years was not able to talk.’’
Ali emerged on the national scene as a bombastic
young showman, predicting in rhyme the round he
would knock out an opponent. Denver became a small
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It was Nov. 4, 1963, when a heavyweight challenger
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Clay and his entourage first drove through the thensegregated neighborhood of Five Points thinking this is
where he would find the current world champion, Sonny Liston, a Denver resident.
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