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Joe Salazar introduces legislation to repeal Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado
State Rep. Joe Salazar, a Thornton Democrat, on Friday introduced a bill to cancel Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado and instead offer state employees a floating day off in October. The legislation, House Bill 1327, includes a lengthy section that declares, “The Columbus voyage triggered one of history’s greatest slave trades, the pillaging…
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Study examines the question, ‘What is the secret to rural economic resiliency?’
The smaller, rural counties of Colorado often experience a different – many would say less healthy – economic reality than most of the state’s population in the more heavily populated Front Range counties. While that may not be news, a recent study details what residents of those smaller counties have found helps them be economically resilient. The…
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Hickenlooper, state lawmakers continue to push Congress for Good Samaritan bill
Lawmakers at the federal level may not be much help, but the EPA and Colorado officials are working well together to fix the century-old mining mess above Silverton that continues to leak waste water into local streams, according to the town administrator. “That [Aug. 5] accident is going to allow this problem to be properly…