Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Gazette
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Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo
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Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E (Bucket 2 Environmental Drought Mitigation) funding from the Bureau of Reclamation. In the 1960s, the town of Palisade built four sewer lagoons on a raised bank of the Colorado River…
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ICE arrest of student after traffic stop spotlights Colorado’s non-cooperation policy
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On June 5, a University of Utah student was pulled over by a Mesa County police officer for following a semitrailer too closely. Caroline Dias Goncalves was asked where she was born and was released with a warning. But after exiting Interstate 70 at Loma, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped, arrested and took her to…
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Coal to nuclear? Western Slope advocates say it could be ‘a plug and play’
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Family picnics in the 1940s and 1950s in western Colorado might have resulted in more than ants marching over a worn checkered tablecloth. On the arid sandstone outcrops, in fine grains and veinlets, in greenish-yellow or a sooty black, lay the United States’ hope for Cold War dominance: uranium. Seventy-five years on, some Coloradans still…
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Western Slope farmers fear impact of mass deportations and labor market changes
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PALISADE • To be a farmer in any era is to live, unsteadily, with constant change. On rural Colorado’s small family farms one thing is certain: the landscape of agriculture is shifting. And the tenuous balance is in for a new test as promises of mass deportations threaten to wipe out the labor force that small…
