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THE PODIUM | Activists mislead the public about oil and gas development near Dunes
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How far does a national park extend past its boundary line? In the case of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, we’re told the boundary stretches past the gate, over a mountain range, and across a valley on the other side. That’s according to anti-fossil fuel activists working to stop oil and natural gas leasing…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP: Polygamous town picks outsider as police chief
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Utah Polygamous town under scrutiny picks outsider as chief SALT LAKE CITY – A polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border has hired an outsider as its new police chief, selecting a retired Salt Lake City area police officer with no ties to the fundamentalist Mormon group that controlled the town for a century until federal…
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Out West Roundup: Harassment allegations pit lobbyist against New Mexico lawmaker
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New Mexico Lobbyist alleges sexual harassment by state lawmaker SANTA FE – An animal rights advocate and former political lobbyist went public with sexual harassment allegations last week against a New Mexico state lawmaker, who cast himself as the victim of politically motivated lies. In an open letter published online, Laura Bonar accused Democratic Rep.…
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FEEDBACK | An alphabet soup of opinion — on PERA, the BLM and the NRA
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A PERA bankruptcy will leave Colorado taxpayers holding the bag Just a few years in the past PERA was flush with cash and more than solvent. So why is it that, due to some incredible fiscal stupidity, the rest of us must now be saddled with an insolvent and potentially catastrophic financial disaster? This is…
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Environmentalists wary of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes
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The Trump administration’s “make America safe through energy independence” plan may be taking hold of eastern Colorado, near the Great Sand Dunes. A news release from the Bureau of Land Management this week said the agency is proposing oil and gas leases on nearly 22,000 acres of federal land across a swath of Colorado. Eleven…
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Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments
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There’s a land rush starting today in Utah that at least one Colorado senator wants to make certain never happens in his state. Miners are staking claims to parcels of land in large swaths of what formerly was about 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, along Colorado’s southwest…
