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Local governments get $40.1 million to offset tax loss from federal lands
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Fifty-six Colorado towns and counties that are home to federal lands received an oversized check from one of their own this week. Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who grew up in Rifle, delivered an oversized check for $40.1 million from the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, which helps lesson the blow to local…
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Walker Stapleton tops gubernatorial straw poll after Mesa County GOP candidate forum
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Republican Walker Stapleton won a straw poll conducted Thursday night at the conclusion of a GOP gubernatorial candidate forum in Grand Junction. The state treasurer pulled about 45 percent of the vote in a field that included former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, Attorney General Cynthia Coffman and businessmen Victor Mitchell and Doug Robinson, although it…
