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Denver Ballpark district will be on November’s ballot after City Council approval
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After nearly a decade of attempts, downtown Denver business and property owners are closer to creating an improvement district around Coors Field. On Monday, the Denver City Council approved a bill to create a Ballpark general improvement district — an area taxing both commercial and residential property owners — and put the issue on November’s ballot. The…
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Drought conditions still easing slowly across Colorado
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Drought plaguing the Southwest continues, but Colorado saw another week of small improvements, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The biggest improvements have come in the eastern half of the state, while the Western Slope has yet to see the same reprieve. “Widespread beneficial rainfall, exceeding 1 inch, this…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
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Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million acres in 12 states, including 8.3 million acres on Colorado’s…
