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Obama backs additional oil drilling in Alaska, Salazar says

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar...

Victory!

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Ryan Owens caught her first case at age 27 after becoming addicted to methamphetamine. She was sent into treatment, but relapsed almost immediately after graduating. When she got into trouble again, she went on the run, afraid of being sent to jail...

Task force recommendations and near misses

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When Governor John Hickenlooper handpicked his task force to examine state and local regulations concerning oil and gas operations, his stated intent was to resolve those issues involving competing regulatory entities and multiple jurisdictions including state and ...

‘Drastic action’

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Boulder’s Police Oversight Panel (POP) last week enacted a partial work stoppage, even as they were warned by city attorneys that doing so could...

Barricades removed from Occupy Wall Street Zuccotti Park

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NEW YORK — Barricades surrounding the park in lower...

And another new lawsuit

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On March 8, the Humane Society of the United States, the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

Quake-hit N.Z. city gets new cathedral of cardboard

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After a Feb. 22, 2011 earthquake destroyed the large Gothic cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, the architectural loss was significant. But, more practically, the congregation needed somewhere to worship...

Clint Eastwood ‘delusional, detached from reality,’ says Michael Moore

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Thanks, Clint, writes independent filmmaker Michael Moore. Thanks for the memory...

Thrifting local: The season of giving — and giving back

A couple of years ago, a group that got its start in the late 1970s blocking railroad tracks in a successful effort to close Rocky Flats ran into some budget trouble...

Losing my place

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I think all of us are influenced by a sense of place. Grow up amidst skyscrapers and it’s pretty easy to see humans as life’s central architects. Spend enough time in the wide-open West and you just might feel a bit less important in the overall scheme of things...

GE Food Labeling Initiatives Gaining Momentum

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Earlier this week, 55 Members of Congress signed on to a letter...

Demand to dwarf supply on Colorado River

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called it "a call to action." But a recently released federal study may be a few steps beyond just that...