Author: David O. Williams
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As lodging tax hikes hit ballots, Beaver Creek threatens to incorporate
BEAVER CREEK – Mountain counties across Colorado are jumping on the lodging-tax bandwagon at the polls this November following the passage last session of a bipartisan state bill (HB25-1247), but one ski county has run afoul of one of its largest tax sources over the issue. The Eagle County commissioners last month approved a Nov.…
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print Moffat Tunnel wastewater spill highlights rail safety issues for state, local leaders (copy)
As Colorado lawmakers this month prepare to do something that Congress has been incapable of for more than a year — debate meaningful rail-safety legislation — Union Pacific, state regulators and officials in Grand County are debating tough questions about a massive wastewater spill last summer into the Fraser River near the state-owned Moffat Tunnel.…
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It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies | Writers on the Range
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It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on the state’s Western Slope. The valley is called Homestake, and now, those same cities want even more of its pure water. In western Colorado, where only about 20% of Colorado’s population…
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It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies | Writers on the Range
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It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on the state’s Western Slope. The valley is called Homestake, and now, those same cities want even more of its pure water. In western Colorado, where only about 20% of Colorado’s population…
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It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies | Writers on the Range
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It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on the state’s Western Slope. The valley is called Homestake, and now, those same cities want even more of its pure water. In western Colorado, where only about 20% of Colorado’s population…
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It’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies | Writers on the Range
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It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on the state’s Western Slope. The valley is called Homestake, and now, those same cities want even more of its pure water. In western Colorado, where only about 20% of Colorado’s population…
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Colorado Pacific pledges passenger trains, trails to revive rail traffic on Tennessee Pass Line
TENNESSEE PASS — A railroad and agricultural company in southeastern Colorado is sweetening the pot in its bid to take over Union Pacific’s inactive Tennessee Pass Line, offering passenger trains and recreational trails to entice mountain communities along the route. Colorado Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of KCVN, plans to go back to the U.S. Surface…
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Mountain rebound: Colorado ski towns reopen in an infected world
VAIL — The mayors of Colorado’s top two ski towns in terms of annual skier visits — Eric Mamula of Breckenridge and Dave Chapin of Vail — have a lot in common. They’re both restaurateurs deeply concerned about their essential workers. They’re both working hard on economic recovery. And they both know COVID-19 all too well.…
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Colorado businesses ask Polis to back Big Tech
Small businesses in Colorado, fearful of a growing tsunami of federal probes into Big Tech, are asking Gov. Jared Polis to help them rein in any potential disruptions to digital technology platforms during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to Polis spearheaded by the nonprofit Connected Commerce Council and signed by 154 Colorado businesses, the group, also…
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CD3 PRIMARY PREVIEW | Health care shapes up as top issue in CD3 primary race
With some of the highest health care and health-insurance costs in the state, Colorado’s massive 3rd Congressional District could be won or lost in the bitter debate over which candidate has the best health plan for emerging from the COVID-19 crisis. Incumbent five-term U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, a Cortez Republican, faces a surprisingly spirited primary…