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Colorado Supreme Court walks back decision allowing localities to broadly permit violations of noise limits
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The Colorado Supreme Court concluded on Monday that the state’s noise pollution law does not allow local governments to categorically permit any entity to host events on private property that exceed the statewide decibel limits. The question had divided the state’s Court of Appeals, with one appellate panel deciding localities do have broad permitting power…
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Colorado Supreme Court skeptical of broad municipal power to permit violations of state noise limits
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court attempted on Thursday to decipher a 38-year-old amendment to the state’s noise pollution law to determine if local governments may permit any for-profit entity to host events on private property that exceed the statewide decibel limits. In doing so, multiple justices were openly skeptical of the city of Salida’s…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear murder, noise pollution, fentanyl cases
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will decide whether a man can be tried a second time for murder after jurors rendered a verdict that made no sense if they had followed their instructions. At least three of the seven justices must agree to hear a case on appeal. The court also elected…
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Appeals court splits with itself on statewide noise limits, sets up Supreme Court intervention
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday set the stage for Supreme Court intervention by finding local governments cannot authorize concerts on private, for-profit land to exceed noise limits under state law — three months after another set of appellate judges reached the opposite conclusion. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the state’s Noise Abatement Act…
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Divided appeals court says local governments may authorize noise limits exceeding state law
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled for the first time earlier this month that local governments may authorize noise permits for activities on private property that exceed the levels set in state law. By 2-1, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals concluded the state’s Noise Abatement Act allowed the city of Salida to issue outdoor…
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Divided appeals court says local governments may authorize noise limits exceeding state law
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled for the first time earlier this month that local governments may authorize noise permits for activities on private property that exceed the levels set in state law. By 2-1, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals concluded the state’s Noise Abatement Act allowed the city of Salida to issue outdoor…
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Divided appeals court says local governments may authorize noise limits exceeding state law
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled for the first time earlier this month that local governments may authorize noise permits for activities on private property that exceed the levels set in state law. By 2-1, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals concluded the state’s Noise Abatement Act allowed the city of Salida to issue outdoor…
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In Salida, hiring of city administrator accused of domestic abuse sparks intense #MeToo debate
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Salida Mayor P.T. Wood barely maintained decorum in the City Council chambers the night he tried to convince concerned residents that their recently hired city administrator had not abused his wife. The council was scheduled to talk about a number of mundane municipal issues that October night: a hangar lease, street closures, permit requests. But…
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In Colo. and beyond, global warming cooks up ‘a different world’
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SALIDA – We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching – it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change.” Thirty…
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Study examines the question, ‘What is the secret to rural economic resiliency?’
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The smaller, rural counties of Colorado often experience a different – many would say less healthy – economic reality than most of the state’s population in the more heavily populated Front Range counties. While that may not be news, a recent study details what residents of those smaller counties have found helps them be economically resilient. The…
