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The nuclear family is slowly melting down in Southwest Colorado, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau released recently. The archetypal family married parents with children living in...
DATE: May 31, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton took on President Barack Obama this week over the presidents remarks about Israel.Tipton planned to send a letter to Obama on Friday, asking him to retract his remarks about...
DATE: May 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Colorado continues to rank well below the national average on public school funding, a new report from the Census Bureau shows.The state ranked 40th in per-student spending at $8,718 per...
DATE: May 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER A lawsuit filed Monday attacks Colorados Taxpayers Bill of Rights as a violation of a fundamental American ideal government by representative democracy.But supporters of TABOR, which...
DATE: May 26, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Colorados new congressional districts will be drawn in the same place they have been for the past 30 years a Denver courtroom.On May 11, the Legislature had not even adjourned for the...
DATE: May 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a tax exemption for farm and ranch supplies Monday, reversing the Legislatures 2010 decision to tax them.Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1005 at Aero...
DATE: May 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Just as the partisanship over new congressional districts has reached a fever pitch, its time to redraw lines for state legislative districts.An 11-person panel five Democrats, five...
DATE: May 19, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER State regulators fined Kinder Morgan CO2 Co. $98,000 Monday for drilling wells without a permit in Montezuma and Dolores counties.Kinder Morgan agreed to a settlement prior to Mondays...
DATE: May 17, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Rep. J. Paul Browns bill to expand the states bear hunting season is dead.House Bill 1294 would have needed a final vote in the House by Tuesday. But that didnt happen, and the...
DATE: May 12, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Information from a deceased informant continues to yield prosecutions for artifact theft in the Four Corners.A new round of cases in the last month has targeted at least three people,...
DATE: May 7, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Two more gas and oil people would join the state board that regulates the industry under a bill the House passed Thursday.Rep. Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, blamed former Gov. Bill Ritter...
DATE: May 7, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER A repeal of last years Amazon tax on Internet sales gained bipartisan support this week.House Bill 1318 passed the House 58-6, with Republicans and all but six Democrats supporting...
DATE: May 7, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
