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Ignored for decades, Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
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MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah • Navajo Nation residents in pickup trucks rumbled along dusty dirt roads in the ethereal painted desert of Monument Valley in August to a well where they fill up water tanks, sometimes multiple times a day. The well spigot in the dirt parking lot next to a shuttered post office in Goulding, Utah, is…
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With the feds ‘light’ on steps, Colorado’s water experts explore challenges, opportunities
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Several of Colorado’s water experts on Thursday noted that the federal government’s plan for tackling dwindling Colorado River reservoirs is “light” on the next steps but that the river’s condition also offers opportunities to boost resiliency among Western states. “It’s a dismaying time, but one full of opportunity,” said attorney James Eklund of Sherman &…
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Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission on shoals of bitter political divide
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It was founded nearly 70 years ago, before the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, and has its roots in an early state anti-discrimination law that dates back to 1895. But now the state’s Civil Rights Commission is facing major changes to its mandate and authority – thanks in large part to the Lakewood baker…
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Colorado’s Justice Eid gets Trump team’s nod for Gorsuch’s old job
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As anticipated, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid has been nominated by the Trump administration to serve on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Eid previously had landed on the president’s list of prospects for an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court. That job ultimately went to the 10th Circuit’s Neil Gorsuch, of Colorado,…
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Eid sworn in as Supreme Court justice, Boyd moves from House to Senate
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Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas introduced and lauded his former law clerk Allison Eid, who was sworn in as the 95th justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Eid, appointed to the bench by Gov. Bill Owens, replaced Rebecca Love Kourlis, who had announced she…
