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State Supreme Court again strikes down part of harassment law as unconstitutional
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The Colorado Supreme Court once again invalidated part of the state’s anti-harassment law, finding the legislature targeted constitutionally protected speech in its effort to criminalize certain types of electronic communication. As written, Colorado law makes it a misdemeanor offense to communicate with someone by phone, text or computer in a manner intended to harass, threaten…
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Boebert faces calls for federal, state investigations into abuse of authority allegations
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A comedy writer and documentary filmmaker is asking federal and state authorities to investigate U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, accusing the Silt Republican of abusing her position to squelch a political critic. In letters delivered in late October to the acting U.S. attorney for Colorado and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Toby Morton, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, resident,…
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COVER STORY: Battle brews across the West over sage-grouse protections
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While the big, ground-dwelling bird known as the greater sage-grouse relies upon the West’s sagebrush steppe for its living, its survival may rest on a delicately negotiated set of agreements – agreements that the Trump administration, as with so many things, is set to upend. But the situation may be different in Colorado – at…
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Drilling setback ballot measure would keep rigs off of most Colorado lands
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About 85 percent of the state and private land in Colorado would be unavailable for surface development by the oil and gas industry if a ballot measure adopting a 2,500-foot setback for new wells from homes and schools is adopted, according to an analysis by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The analysis was…
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Former Garfield County bookkeeper resentenced for embezzlement
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A former bookkeeper in the Garfield County Clerk and Recorder’s Office has been resentenced to one less year in prison after a successful appeal of her original 10-year sentence. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent reports that Robin McMillan, who pleaded guilty to embezzling public money last year, was resentenced Thursday to 9 years in prison. Investigators…
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Oregon LNG terminal, pipeline seen as key to reviving Western Slope gas patch
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No one even remotely involved in natural gas production on Colorado’s Western Slope wants to continue to party like it’s 1999. Back then prices were below $2 per million British thermal units and there were just 94 well starts in Garfield County. Last year, prices continued to languish below $2 per million British thermal units…
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Colorado’s Western Slope counties back Sanders
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Colorado’s Western Slope has been bone dry of late, but on Super Tuesday the state’s mountain counties were really feeling the Bern as big crowds of Democrats turned out for Bernie Sanders. From the ski towns in Summit and Eagle counties west to the mining and drilling towns of Mesa and Garfield counties, the Vermont…