Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Marijuana businesses ask voters to tax pot

DENVER – Most businesses would never ask for a steep tax increase. But most businesspeople don’t sell a product that would have landed them in prison less than a year ago. A group of marijuana...

DATE: Sept. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Complaint may hamper FLC alumni outreach

Although Fort Lewis College President Dene Kay Thomas was vindicated in the ethics complaint over her trip to Dubai, the case may have done lasting harm to the college’s new outreach efforts to...

DATE: Sept. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colo. delegates prepare for debt fight

DENVER – When Congress gets back to work next month, people shouldn’t expect to see a comprehensive immigration bill pass. Instead, the country should get ready for another fight on the national...

DATE: Aug. 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA to inspect Mancos milling site

DENVER - Mining inspectors have found heavy pollution from mercury and arsenic inside an unpermitted gold mill on the west side of Mancos. It's "one of the uglier cases of using hazardous chemicals...

DATE: Aug. 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

EPA to inspect Mancos milling site

DENVER – Mining inspectors have found heavy pollution from mercury and arsenic inside an unpermitted gold mill on the west side of Mancos. It’s “one of the uglier cases of using hazardous chemicals...

DATE: Aug. 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

USFS bans exploding targets

DENVER - The U.S. Forest Service announced a ban on exploding targets Monday, citing them as a major cause of wildfires. Target shooters who use exploding targets have ignited 16 wildfires since...

DATE: Aug. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Forest Service bans exploding targets

DENVER – The U.S. Forest Service announced a ban on exploding targets Monday, citing them as a major cause of wildfires. Target shooters who use exploding targets have ignited 16 wildfires since...

DATE: Aug. 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Petition for school tax hike turned in

DENVER – Supporters of higher funding for schools turned in petition signatures Monday to ask Colorado voters to raise their own income taxes this November. The more than 160,000 signatures they...

DATE: Aug. 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tipton’s logging bill advances

A U.S. House committee advanced Rep. Scott Tipton’s bill to accelerate logging in national forests Wednesday, although Democrats on the panel said it will never become law. Tipton, R-Cortez, has...

DATE: Aug. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Empire argues PUC's right to rule on rates

DENVER - Customers upset with electricity price increases in the Four Corners had their day in court Monday, but it will be weeks or longer before they get an answer. Empire Electric Association,...

DATE: July 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Empire argues PUC’s right to rule on wholesale rates

DENVER – Customers upset with electricity price hikes in the Four Corners had their day in court Monday, but it will be weeks or longer before they get an answer. Empire Electric Association, other...

DATE: July 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Merged agency seeks comments

DENVER – Colorado’s new Parks and Wildlife division is reaching out for public help to craft a long-term plan. The agency is working on its “Path Forward,” a five-year plan that is due to the...

DATE: July 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

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