Ritter signs bill helping kids with allergies
Aspen, CO Colorado
DENVER ” Gov. Bill Ritter has signed a bill aimed at helping students with allergies.
Under the measure signed Thursday, Colorado health and education departments have until Jan. 1 to come up with a statewide policy to work with those students. It needs to include a standard form for parents to let schools know about their child’s allergies as well as training so teachers and other staffers can respond to allergic reactions.
Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, said parents of children with allergies are literally putting the lives of their children in the hands of teachers when they drop them off at school.
A federal study released last fall found that food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise with allergies now affecting about 3 million kids.
Genstar’s Jean-Pierre Conte sued in Aspen by ex-girlfriend Hillary Thomas
The former girlfriend of Jean-Pierre Conte, the chairman and managing director of the private equity firm Genstar Capital, filed suit Thursday in Aspen claiming that Conte committed assault, battery, and violated the terms of a 2021 separation agreement. Hillary Thomas claims in her lawsuit that during her more than nine years with Conte, she helped parent his four children and her two children “whom they raised in a blended family.”
