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Chicken Picking and Other Strange Telluride Pastimes

Lise Waring | Posted 12.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: History, Sports, Miners, Telluride, Racetrack, Broom Ball, Bike Polo, Skitching, Chicken Picking, Demographics, Pastimes, Colorado, Denver News
Lise Waring

Why can't we just play basketball, lose money on poker night and go to the gym like everyone else? Here's my theory.

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Colorado Auto Registration Penalties Could Be Toned Down In New Legislative Session

The Denver Post | Posted 12.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Legislature, Colorado, Al White, Colorado Registration Fees, Joe Rice, Bill Ritter, Denver News

Good news, you procrastinating boat owner, you old-car fixer-upper, you life-gets-in-the-way kind of Coloradan. Lawmakers are introducing bills nex...

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The Decade in Denver

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: 9/11, Democratic Convention Denver, Kobe Bryant, Ward Churchill, John Mark Karr, John Elway, Tiger Woods, Rocky Mountain News, 2008 Democratic National Convention, Decade in Review, Denver, Denver Broncos, 2000s, Colorado, Denver News
Craig Alan Silverman

So much of America's best and worst happen here in the Centennial State.

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Colorado Springs Dispatchers Suspended For Watching Christmas Movies During Shift

The Denver Post | Posted 12.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: 911 Christmas Movies, Colorado, Fountain, Colorado Springs, 911 Dispatchers Suspended for Watching Christmas Movies, Denver News

The Colorado State Patrol suspended three staff members as part of an internal investigation into the delayed dispatch of troopers to a report of a di...

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Colorado Water Use Explodes On The Western Slope As It Slows On Front Range

The Denver Post | Posted 12.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Nevada, Water Use, Drought, Colorado, Colorado River, Utah, Colorado Springs, Mountain States, Denver News

Colorado Front Range residents are using less water, but some parts of the Western Slope have seen per capita water use explode in the past decade, ac...

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Salazar: the Grinch of Speciesville

Nicole Rosmarino | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Department of Interior, Endangered Species, Lynx, Ken Salazar, Extinction, Wildlife, New Mexico, Outdoors, Colorado, Denver News
Nicole Rosmarino

Salazar's latest Grinchy move was when he agreed that lynx dispersing from Colorado's southern mountains into New Mexico deserve protection, but, so sorry, they can't have it just yet.

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Colorado Higher Education: Ritter Proposes Study

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 12.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Budget Cuts, Denver, Bill Ritter, Denver News

DENVER — Warning that higher education is facing a funding crisis next year, Gov. Bill Ritter named businessman Dick Monfort and attorney Jim Ly...

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The Benefits of Starting a Business During a Recession: One Colorado Story

Holly Hamann | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Web 2.0, Boulder Colorado, Economic Recession, Colorado, Startups, Denver News
Holly Hamann

What person in their right mind would quit their job during the worst economy since the Great Depression?

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Albertsons Bias Lawsuit: Chain To Pay $8.5 Million For Denver Warehouse Discrimination

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado, Albertsons, Bias, Lawsuit, Denver News

DENVER — The Albertson's LLC grocery chain will pay $8.9 million to 168 black and Hispanic workers who said they were subjected to racial taunts...

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18,000 Coloradoans Attend Town Hall (Actually, 18,000 Listen to Bennet Conference Call)

Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 12.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Caucus, Michael Bennet, Senate, Andrew Romanoff, Primary, Colorado, Denver News
Anne Z. Boxer

It will take information, organization and mobilization to keep Colorado a blue state.

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Gay Congress Members Still Face Inequality

Advocate | Kerry Eleveld | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Jared Polis, Congress, Gay Rights, Congressional Spouses, Polis, Tammy Baldwin, Gay Representatives, Rep. Jared Polis, Colorado, Politics News

When the partner of freshman Colorado congressman Jared Polis went to get his Congressional Spouse ID last February at Member Services, he thought the...

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Angry Driver Crashes Truck Into DMV

AP | Posted 12.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Dmv, Department of Motor Vehicles, Road Rage, Colorado, Arapahoe County, Arapahoe County Sherrif's Office, Home News

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Arapahoe County officials said a disgruntled driver crashed his truck into a DMV because it was closed. Arapahoe County Cler...

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Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Colorado Workers Fed Up With Being Demonized, Start 'I Exist' Campaign

Denver Business Journal | Bob Mook | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mark Udall, Insurance Workers, Diana DeGette, 'I Exist' Insurance Campaign, Insurance, Health Care, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Health Care Reform, Colorado, Michael Bennet, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis, Denver News

Workers at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado are mad as heck and they're not going to take it anymore. Employees for Colorado's largest...

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iPhone Apps: Colorado's Best iPhone Apps (VOTE)

Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Slidepoll, Wizards, Ski Resorts, iPhone Applications, Colorado Department of Transportation, App, Colorado, Drunk Driving, iPhone App, Denver, Rtd, Denver News

Lost on a hike through Rocky Mountain National Park? There's an App for that. Check out the best iPhone apps invented by, or created for, Colorada...

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Governor Ritter REDI-ing to Retire Coal Plants

Jeremy Nichols | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil and Gas Drilling, Governor Ritter, Oil and Gas Leasing, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, Comanche 3, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Aerial-Gunning, Wildearth Guardians, Coal, Global Warming, Wildlife, Colorado, Denver News
Jeremy Nichols

All the renewable energy in the world can't and won't make up for the fact that unless Colorado starts cutting back on coal burning, greenhouse gases are going to keep climbing.

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Clean Water Act Expansion: 28 Western Republicans Seeking To Block Revision Of Clean Water Act

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Epa, Colorado, Clean Water Act Expansion, Army Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Wyoming, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act ...

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Embracing a Telluride Blizzard

Lise Waring | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ski, Snowfall, Blizzard, Snowboardcross, Ski Cross, Telluride, Colorado, Parallel Giant Slalom, Skiing, Snow Report, Olympics, Denver News
Lise Waring

It's dumping Telluride. In other words, we're getting pounded. It's nuking, hammering and puking. (Ski town locals have almost as many terms for snow as the legendary Inuit.)

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Boulder's James Lee of Bitter Bar: The Art of the Cocktail

Waylon Lewis | Posted 12.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cocktails, Dining, Bartender, James Lee, Boulder, Alcohol, Bar, Bitter Bar, Dave Query, Colorado, Denver News
Waylon Lewis

Make a proper drink, mindfully, and it can be an incredible way to relax, to breathe out the stress of the day, to enjoy your evening and the company of a friend and your community.

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Colorado Broadband: Map Exposes Digital Divide Between Rural, Urban Areas

AP | Posted 12.03.2009 | Denver

Read More: Internet Access, Internet, Information Technology, Cable, Governor's Office, Wireless, Fiber, Dsl, Colorado, Broadband, High Speed Internet, Federal Stimulus, Connected Nation, Satellite, Denver News

DENVER - About 97 percent of Colorado households have some high-speed Internet service available without an extraordinary commitment of resources, but...

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Colorado Receiving $2.1 Million To Expand Internet Access

AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Internet, National-Telecommunications-and-Information-Administrations-Ntia, Funding, Broadband, Stimulus, Grant, Colorado, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado is receiving about $2.1 million in stimulus money over the next few years for work that could help expand high-speed Internet ...

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Robert De Niro Upstages Denver In Kirk Jones' Everybody's Fine

Michael Bialas | Posted 11.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Kirk Jones, Beatles, Perry Como, Denver Film Festival, Paul McCartney, Colorado, Frank Sinatra, Melissa Leo, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Denver, Jack Nicholson, Drew Barrymore, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Mirmax, Denver News
Michael Bialas

Denver plays a small part in Everybody's Fine, the tearjerking family drama disguised in recent trailers as a feel-good holiday film starring Robert De Niro.

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Thanks to Nature

Gary Hart | Posted 11.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Thanksgiving Commentary, Thanksgiving, Colorado, Green News
Gary Hart

Having chosen many years ago to live in the foothills of Colorado, and to have the opportunity to protect some unspoiled property, Thanksgiving time is always a reminder of the unique blessings of nature.

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Thanksgiving Skiing: What's Happening At Colorado's Ski Resorts This Week?

Posted 11.26.2009 | Denver

Read More: Slidepoll, WInter Park, Crested Butte, Monarch, Skiing, Colorado, Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort, Steamboat, Aspen, Denver News

Thanksgiving week is prime time for early season skiing. Crested Butte, Steamboat, Monarch and Beaver Creek opened Wednesday. Telluride and Aspen/Sno...

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Credit Suisse Agrees To $79M Colorado Settlement

AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Regulators, Credit Suisse, FInancial Markets, Colorado, Denver News

DENVER — Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC has agreed to buy back $79 million of auction rate securities from Colorado investors who struggled ...

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Ken Salazar Fires Back At Oil Companies Over Western Leases

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Interior Department, Utah Oil Leases, Natural Gas Companies, Ken Salazar, Republican Party, Salazar Oil Lease, Oil Companies, Colorado, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an ar...

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