san miguel county
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Appeals court upholds convictions for religious group’s killing of 2 girls
Ashford Nathaniel Archer argued to the state’s second-highest court that there was insufficient evidence he committed child abuse resulting in death, stemming from his religious group’s 2017 killing of two girls in San Miguel County. The Court of Appeals disagreed last week, finding Archer was aware of the group’s overall decisions that led up to…
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Boulder climate-change lawsuit more political than legal, say CACI panelists
The climate-change lawsuit launched in state court against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy by the city of Boulder, along with San Miguel and Boulder counties, is the wrong complaint in the wrong forum, panelists said Thursday at a Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry (CACI) event. “Litigation tends to produce delayed results, and if the objective…
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Rep. Barbara McLachlan’s off-road safety bill motors to Colorado House floor
Driving along the 65-mile Alpine Loop through four southwestern Colorado counties – San Miguel, San Juan, Ouray and Hinsdale – is a breathtaking experience. The former mule trail is now a one-lane county road where parts are not for the faint of heart and is best navigated with off-road vehicles. The road and beauty alongside it…
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A giant leap: How one Colorado community plans to double its child care spots in three years
It sounds a little like a car race, but it’s more like a care race. Child Care 8,000 is one Colorado county’s ambitious new effort to create thousands of new licensed child care slots and significantly improve the quality of its child care programs over the next three years. The initiative in Mesa County has…
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San Miguel County, environmental groups sue feds over oil and gas leases, claim risk to sage grouse ignored
Claiming the federal government failed to consider the impact of drilling on a threatened bird’s habitat, three environmental groups and San Miguel County sued the Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday seeking to cancel a number of oil and gas leases sold earlier this year in southwest Colorado. “The Gunnison sage-grouse deserves strong conservation protections,…