Author: By CECILIA TIMBERG
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Drought threatens future of Colorado’s $20 billion ski industry
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For a decade the Colorado ski industry has enjoyed a little-known hedge against the Colorado River drought — a deal with Denver that allows resorts to “borrow” water rights when they are making snow in fall so long as they return the snowmelt to the city’s reservoir in the spring. But as federal officials demand…
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Voters don’t care how old a politician is, CU study finds
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Does a politician’s age matter to voters? Not really, a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder found. Damon C. Roberts, a doctoral candidate at CU, noticed that many of the country’s political leaders had been getting senior citizen discounts for years — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 82, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…
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Boulder County residents to vote on sales tax for wildfire mitigation, emergency response and transportation
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Ballot measures that would introduce two new sales taxes and allocate tax funds to wildfire mitigation, emergency response and transportation will appear on the November ballot in Boulder County. The wildfire mitigation measure would establish a 0.1% countywide sales and use tax to fund mitigation efforts such as strategic forest and grassland management projects. Residents…
