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Xcel Energy prepares for power shutoffs due to high winds
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Forecast high winds along the Front Range on Wednesday revive memories of the devastating 2021 Marshall fire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes when gusts downed energized power lines. Xcel Energy now weighs proactive power cuts to avoid similar ignitions amid dangerously dry conditions. The Marshall fire erupted under comparable wind events with gusts exceeding…
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U.S. Forest Service receives funding for forest fire mitigation along the Front Range
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President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday directing the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spearhead efforts to protect, sustain and rebuild the nation’s old-growth forests, mitigate the threat of wildfire and support local communities’ response to forest fires. “These magnificent ecosystems are threatened by the climate impacts that…
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Battle of the Booms: Feelings on oil and gas drilling continue to run high in growing Front Range suburbs
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In October, an overflow crowd of Front Range residents, brandishing signs and wearing surgical masks, descended on the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) meeting to voice opposition to a plan to drill oil wells in Broomfield. “We need a say. Tell the state it’s not OK,” they chanted. In January, when notice went…
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National Western Center study identifies ‘opportunities’
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Transforming the National Western Complex and Denver Coliseum sites into a year-round destination and regional asset could focus on companies and industries affiliated with the more traditional agricultural-based, but more technologically and globally involved, an economic study concluded. Denver City Council’s Business, Arts, Workforce & Aeronautical Services Committee recently listened to a presentation on the…
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Noonan: TABOR is 25 and too alive and too well
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Colorado’s population in 1992 was 3.5 million. Census projections put the state’s population in 2017 at 5.5 million. In 1992, 812,308 citizens – 53.68 percent of voters – said yes to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), and 700,906 citizens – 46.32 percent of voters – said no. Not to make too fine a point,…
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The Hot Sheet — Guess what: Traffic is bad, Trump haters raise cash, Dems want a chair please, Const. amendment to STOP growth, a House divided and MORE …
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VOL. 01 NO. 197 | DECEMBER 2, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Since we are certain very few of you are old enough to have seen the movie or understand the reference … We won’t say T.G.I.F! (says a curmudgeonly old person). Interesting week in political circles. Outside of eaaaarly speculation concerning the 2018 Colorado…
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Rooney Valley: ‘One of the last undeveloped areas’
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Just under 1,000 acres of scenic valley land on the west side of Lakewood and north of Morrison, described as one of the last such areas in metro Denver, could see millions of cubic feet of commercial and residential development over the next 20 years, according to a proposed master plan revision. It is next…
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Western Slope Dems look down ballot in post-Bernie world
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With the official nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, longtime Democrats and progressive political activists on Colorado’s Western Slope are grappling with the impacts on down-ballot races in a post-Bernie Sanders world. Some candidates and party officials are predicting a Democratic exodus of disaffected Bernie backers to the Green Party, while…
