Author: Mark Samuelson
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An ‘existential’ moment: Jewish National Fund becomes target of pro-Palestinian protests in Colorado
Founded in 1901 to promote the return of Jews to Israel, the Jewish National Fund is famous for its fundraising efforts centered around planting trees in Israel. Its annual conference typically plays to feel-good stories about innovative start-up enterprises and charitable projects that are part of the Israeli narrative. Organizers of the global conference, who…
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National Western Stock Show staple and crowd favorite: mutton bustin’
Rodeo cowboys tend to be cool customers as they climb into their mounts. “It’s just another horse,” said bareback bronc rider Clay Stone, 25, from Blackfoot, Idaho, as he readied to ride before a packed Coliseum crowd Monday. Not so, for the National Western’s youngest riding competitors — five-to-seven-year-old children featured in the rodeo’s ever-popular…
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Risk a very real part of rodeo
In a season when people are suddenly focused on very real dangers of competitive sports, you can’t find one where the risks are more vivid than they appear from atop 1,500 pounds of angry saddle bronc, as somebody prepares to open the chute. “It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be hurt, but…
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Eisenhower’s former ‘Cold War retreat’ ranch in Colorado sold
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower looked for an escape from the simmering Cold War in the 1950s, a favorite getaway was a rustic ranch 4 miles west of Winter Park — accommodations that were a far cry from Palm Beach, Martha’s Vineyard and other retreats that presidents frequent now. Byers Peak Ranch in Fraser, the…
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Rising mortgages keeping metro Denver apartment vacancy rates low
Fast-rising mortgage rates might be denting the record home prices that Denver sellers enjoyed last spring, but they’re only serving to reinforce the low-vacancy apartment market, according to developers and recent rental data. “You’ve seen some (home) prices start to decline as new homes and resales are taking longer to sell, but that’s actually helping…
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New hurdles in obtaining medical marijuana reignite policy debate
Julie Richardson moved to Colorado from Louisiana in 2015, specifically to get the quality of cannabis-derived medicines available here — which were illegal or too expensive back home. Now Richardson, who suffered a spinal injury when she was 6 months old and who has gone through repeated reconstructive surgeries and a cancer battle, thinks she…
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Blue Origin opens in Colorado’s Highlands Ranch
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos, opened an expansion office in Highlands Ranch Friday. The Colorado operation would be involved in all of Blur Origin’s ventures, including the New Shepard rocket that has already carried 31 people to outer space over the past year, said Laura Maginnis, a company…
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Denver solar home tour Saturday
When the Solar Energy Research Institute, now National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, staged a tour of 12 new solar home designs built across the Denver area in 1981, engineer John Avenson bought a tour house that was built in Westminster. The monthlong Institute tour drew a hundred thousand visitors to homes scattered around Golden,…
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Marijuana sales in Colorado off by $72M over pandemic high
The waning of the pandemic, along with a decline in demand from customers coming in from out of state, has continued to burn into Colorado’s marijuana market this summer, during what are generally some of the strongest months for pot sales. Sales of cannabis products for July 2022 show a decline of $72 million over…
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Colorado’s Boom Supersonic loses its engine partner, Rolls-Royce
Boom Supersonic, the Colorado startup at Centennial Airport that’s been developing a vision of a new supersonic airliner, is parting ways with Rolls-Royce, the jet engine manufacturer that it had listed as a partner on the project. Rolls-Royce built the Olympus engines that powered the Anglo-French Concorde, the supersonic jetliner that resembled Boom’s sleek, four-engine…