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Colorado tries luring Australian green energy company
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Colorado’s Economic Development Commission on Thursday approved almost $9.4 million in incentives to try to lure four companies to the state, including an Australian “green energy” company. The companies could create nearly 1,100 local jobs, officials said. The biggest package would go to a company that the state is calling “Project Chamomile,” which it described as…
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House committee clears bill extending small business exception from destination sourcing tax law
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The first bill to be acted on in the 2022 General Assembly won a unanimous vote Thursday from the House Business Affairs & Labor Committee and is on the fast-track to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1027, which came out of the interim Sales and Use Tax Simplification Task Force, deals with destination sourcing. That’s a requirement…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Glacier grizzlies could face hunters; Pecos River shortages mulled
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MONTANA State seeks to end protections for Glacier-area grizzlies BILLINGS – Montana is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lift threatened species protections for grizzly bears in the northern portion of the state, including areas in and around Glacier National Park, officials said on Dec. 6. The request, if granted, would open the…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Wyoming sees 1st sanctioned bare-knuckle bouts in more than a century
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Wyoming Bare-knuckle fights wow Wyoming crowd CHEYENNE – A capacity crowd stood and roared its approval as Tony Lopez and Joey Beltran wearily wailed away on each other last week at Cheyenne Ice and Events Center. In the ninth fight of the first sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing card since 1889, Lopez and Beltran delivered the kind…
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Out West Roundup: Montana mandates ‘net neutrality’ for state contracts
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Montana Montana mandates ‘net neutrality’ for state contracts BILLINGS, Montana – Montana last week became the first state to bar telecommunications companies from receiving state contracts if they interfere with internet traffic or favor higher-paying sites or apps, under an order from Gov. Steve Bullock intended to protect so-called net neutrality. The Democratic governor’s order…
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Out West Roundup: Kids have furry, four-legged friends in New Mexico courts
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New Mexico Kids have furry, four-legged friends in New Mexico courts ALBUQUERQUE – Looking adorable is only part of the job description. Also required is the ability to remain calm in public spaces and to impart that peaceful feeling to others, particularly children. Filling the job openings are Lucy and Kasey 2, golden retrievers who…
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Bad week for guns on the Great Plains?
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You would think every week of the next couple years would by a good week for the gun-rights lobby. Washington is being run by hardline pro-gun officials. Even before Trump and the Republican Congress, the Obama-Biden efforts in Washington to pass any gun-control laws at all met stiff resistance and failed. So what’s happening this…
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Adviser in tribe’s pot resort pleads guilty to drug charge
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One of two consultants who worked with a Native American tribe on its plans to open the nation’s first marijuana resort pleaded guilty Monday to a drug offense stemming from his role in the operation, including ordering pot seeds that were shipped surreptitiously from the Netherlands to the reservation. Jonathan Hunt, who oversaw the first…
