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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Yellowstone’s bison herd faces reduction; Wyoming eyes salary boosts
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MONTANA Deal reached to reduce Yellowstone’s bison herd by 600-900 MISSOULA – Officials have agreed to allow as many as 900 bison from Yellowstone National Park to be shot by hunters, sent to slaughter or placed in quarantine this winter in a program that seeks to prevent the animals from spreading a disease to cattle.…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | North Dakota residents ignore law making car-idling illegal
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NORTH DAKOTA State residents ignore law making car-idling illegal BISMARCK, North Dakota – When the winds howl and the bone-numbing cold sets in, scores of North Dakotans willingly become lawbreakers by warming up their vehicles without being in them, ignoring a potential $1,500 state fine and 30 days in jail. “It’s ineffective. The people ignore…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | New Kansas governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition
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KANSAS New governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition TOPEKA, Kansas – The state’s incoming Democratic governor uses words like “decimated” to describe what’s happened to state government over the past decade and will be looking to add staff, boost spending and rethink contracts that outsourced jobs to private companies. Yet the same electorate that…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops
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NEW MEXICO Border town once invaded by Pancho Villa rejects talk of troops COLUMBUS, New Mexico – A small New Mexico border town once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy to draw tourists. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has cited Villa’s 1916 raid…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Utah lawmaker tries pot ahead of medical marijuana vote
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Lawmaker tries pot ahead of medical marijuana vote SALT LAKE CITY – A Utah lawmaker drove to Las Vegas and tried marijuana for the first time ahead of the statewide vote on a proposition to legalize its use for Utah residents with qualifying medical conditions. Sen. Jim Dabakis wanted to try cannabis before the vote,…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town
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Here’s a roundup of news from Colorado’s neighbor states. Iconic Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town WICHITA, Kansas – Access to the ballot box in November will be more difficult for some people in Dodge City, where Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population and have remade an iconic Wild…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Mormon church backs deal to allow medical marijuana in Utah
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Here’s a roundup of news from Colorado’s neighbor states. Mormon church backs deal to allow medical marijuana in Utah SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church has joined lawmakers, the governor and advocates to back a deal that would legalize medical marijuana in conservative Utah after months of fierce debate. The compromise comes as people…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Mushrooms could help clean toxic groundwater in New Mexico
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Mushrooms could help clean toxic groundwater SANTA FE – Water conservationists and a Native American women’s advocacy group believe they’ve found a potential solution to a massive, decades-old underground plume of toxic chromium that likely has spread from property owned by Los Alamos National Laboratory to San Ildefonso Pueblo land. The key ingredient? Mushrooms. They…
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‘Dark Money’: How a Coloradan blew the whistle on campaign corruption
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A meth bust. A stolen car with secret documents. A shy young woman who finds herself in political peril. All of the elements you’d want for a good political thriller – yet this isn’t fiction. And this tangled tale has a Colorado connection. The documentary Dark Money is part thriller and part exposé on illegal…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate discloses cannabis investments
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Libertarian Senate candidate discloses cannabis investments SANTA FE – U.S. Senate candidate Gary Johnson of New Mexico has disclosed personal financial interests in the cannabis sector that include stock holdings, a profit sharing agreement and recent capital gains on investment sales, according to filings reviewed by The Associated Press. Johnson in Senate filings in September…