Sweet 16: Colorado joins the list of states whose same-sex marriage bans have fallen before judicial scrutiny. District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree agreed with nine couples from Denver and Adams counties that Colorado's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.…
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Civilization took a big leap forward when we moved from hunting to gardening. So can economic development. Consider Littleton, Colorado. In 1987, rocket maker Martin Marietta left town, laying off 7,800 workers. “As good a citizen as Martin Marietta was,…
Powertech, the technically Canadian but mostly Chinese-controlled company that wants to mine for uranium in the Southern Black Hills, appears to be playing financial tricks on investors. After two years of telling investors that its Colorado Centennial project is worth…
The Governor Dennis Daugaard's "Beat the Beetles" program just won recognition from the Council of State Governments for innovative state policy. One of the major selling points of South Dakota's pine beetle mitigation program as been to reduce the risk…
Folks who advocate tearing up farmland in Union County and replacing it with a tar sands oil refinery should take a look at this news from the Denver area, where a Suncor oil refinery is leaking black goo into the…
South Dakota's freshman Republican Secretary of State Jason Gant is making good use of federal money to protect the voting rights of soldiers and other American citizens living and working overseas. Gant's counterpart in Colorado, freshman Republican Secretary of State…
Canadian uranium digger Powertech isn't looking too rosy for investors. After several months in which its stock price has tumbled nearly 80%, Powertech apparently can't even afford to continue leasing an old house in Wellington, Colorado, as a local office.…
Colorado is looking into expanding zero-emissions power by adding hydroelectric power to irrigation dams: Colorado State University professor Daniel Zimmerle... and researchers will study how efficient and plausible low-head hydropower, which uses river current and tidal flows to produce energy…