Are you in the Denver Police Spy Files? The Denver Police Department is being sued by the ACLU for spying on political activists and protesters. They want the Denver PD to withdraw from an FBI unit tracking progressive political activists. Denver Cops also dropped charges against this kid from Historically Black College Lincoln University (in Springfield, MO), who filmed a riot.
Spanish speakers are getting ripped off at some Denver-area car dealerships. Car dealers are substituting lease documents for sales documents.
Otters are coming back to Southwestern Colorado, which is seen as a positive sign of water quality.
Ken Salazar is still working to broker a deal on judicial nominations. If that doesn't convince him to run for governor, nothing will.
Expansion of Wolf Creek is going ahead, as Mineral County Commissioners allowed a delay in a bond posting. Developers of the ski area haven't been able to come up with the $15 to $18 million bond.
If you voice your political opinion, you run the risk of getting fired. Aspen Skiing Company employee Auden Schendler wrote a letter to the Aspen Times opposing expansion of a golf course, the Roaring Fork Club. The owner of the club complained to Aspen Skiing Company about the letter. Schendler, director of environmental affairs for ASC, was acting on his own and not as an Aspen Skiing Company employee.
Despite last week's announcement that Garfield County would not block oil and gas exploration company Presco's application to drill in Project Rulison, the County continues to make demands about well density and surface owners rights issues.
State Representative Bernie Buescher (D-Grand Junction) says that the state will be out of operating cash as early as 2007 if voters don't pass the de-Brucing referendum in November. Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) says that the state could still securitize it's tobacco settlement to remain solvent, but I'm not sure that's really constitutional. Buescher, as Chair of the powerful Joint Budget Committee of the Colorado legislature, is in the best position to assess the state's budget problems.
Getting the Leadville Railway ready.
Osama bin Green? The FBI is spending massive resources chasing down animal rights and ecoterrorists.
Lakewood's city manager is in trouble. Mike Rock used his city expense account to wine and dine Walmart developers and other big businesses to come to Lakewood, and was using city accounts to trick out his city-owned Silverado pickup. Lakewood was even picking up gas for him. Rock was found out when his wife caused a four-car pileup near Colorado Springs when driving his city vehicle, costing taxpayers $9000 for repairs to her vehicle alone.
Steamboat is thinning beetle-killed pines in order to cut fire risk. Drought and increasing temperatures has allowed pine bark beetles to move into Northern Colorado.
Boulder is looking to hang on to its natural food industry. Boulder has been called the "Silicone Valley" of natural foods.
CU Denver student Stephen Billey lead a team that won an invention competition by building a better windmill. Billey will share in the $75,000 prize from the EPA.
Activists are planning a boycott of Arizona for extreme anti-immigrant stands taken by its legislature. It's too hot for Ralph in Arizona anyway.
Pueblo is taking advantage of sluggish runoff on the Arkansas to improve fish habitat.
The Lionshead Clock Tower in Vail was demolished on Wednesday. The tower, credited with giving Vail it's Disney-esque Euro feel, is making way for a new town center and gondola harbor.
Colorado Springs cops got conflicting advice about what weapons to use to bring down some escaped buffalo. Ralph's no genius, but a .223 round ain't what brings down buffalo.
"I hate those darn skeeters." Cops used 82 rounds of AR-15 ammo before a meat packing plant employee took down the buffalo with a .357 rifle.
Did the Denver City Clerk throw the recent jail election? That's what an employee is saying and, of course, the CS Gazette believes him.
The Colorado Department of Revenue is harrassing party-goers. It seems they are against spanking. They shouldn't be. My dad did not spare the rod and Ralph pays his taxes. On time.
Denver is looking to move cargo rail traffic outside of Denver, at a cost of over a billion dollars, but could provide substantial economic benefits.
Con-Agra in Longmont may de-unionize if a vote goes through today.
"Don't worry, OSHA will protect you, you don't need a union."
Lake County and Colorado Mountain College are in a dispute over payment on an EPA grant. Commissioner Michael Hickman held up payment for work the College did on Superfund water monitoring because he felt the EPA terms were not strict enough.