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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Colorado stories: 103 news summaries

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 Dems' Colo. Dream Win 
 Begins to Look Shaky 

Anxiety over recession, deficit quiets Obama supporters

Sep 5, 09 6:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats won a huge symbolic victory by winning over conservative Colorado in last year's elections, but nervous state voters may be yearning for the GOP again, the Washington Post reports. Strategists are feeling it on the ground and incumbents in the halls of power: President Obama's supporters have grown quiet... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • Colorado • Gov. Bill Ritter • Michael Bennet • Republicans

(AP) - Now it's personal. President Barack Obama invoked his own anguish over the death of his grandmother as he challenged the notion that Democratic efforts to overhaul the nation's health care would include so-called death panels. "I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it's like to watch... More »

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Colorado • health care reform • town hall meeting • Madelyn Dunham • President Obama • death panel • deathers

(Newser) - President Obama will visit two national parks during a family trip to the Mountain West next week, the Denver Post reports. The first family will travel to to Colorado and Montana in addition to Wyoming, home of Yellowstone, and Arizona, where they'll see the Grand Canyon. More »

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Michelle Obama • Phoenix • Colorado • first families • Veterans of Foreign Wars • Obama administration • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Grand Canyon National Park • President Obama • Yellowstone National Park

 Crocs Scramble to Stay Afloat 

Company may go belly up as debt deadline looms

Jul 16, 09 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The company that makes the once-ubiquitous, quirky Croc shoes is about to go belly up, experts fear. The Colorado firm lost $18.5 million last year, has a warehouse full of unwanted shoes and just weeks to pay off its debt. Blame it on the economy and fickle consumers. "... More »

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consumer • business • shoes • Crocs • Colorado • Boulder • Boulder, Colo. • clogs

 Mississippi Still Porkiest, 
 but Alabama Closing In 

Obesity up in 23 states: report

Jul 1, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(AP) - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past... More »

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obesity • baby boomer • obesity epidemic • Medicare • fat • Alabama • Mississippi • Colorado

 Colo. Ranchers Battle 
 Army Land Grab 

Coloradans balk at plans to expand training base onto vast tract of rangeland

Jun 24, 09 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ranchers in southeast Colorado have fought the US Army to a standstill over plans to expand a training site onto their land, the Wall Street Journal reports. An Army analysis found that the grasslands were ideal for combat training, and recommended the military acquire 7 million acres, but the ranchers... More »

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US military • US Army • military bases • ranch • Colorado • land rights • eminent domain

Colorado Town Would Welcome Gitmo Inmates

Supermax is already home to Unabomber, '20th hijacker'

Jun 4, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of Congress have protested President Obama's efforts to move Guantanamo inmates to US prisons, but residents of Florence, Colo., say they wouldn't mind taking in a few enemy combatants. The supermax prison near town already holds some of the world's most infamous terrorists: a 1993 World Trade Center assailant,... More »

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prison • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • federal prison • Colorado • Guantanamo prisoners • Supermax

 Bizarre Dust Stains 
 Snow-Capped Rockies 

Dust could leave crops dehydrated by late summer

May 24, 09 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A veil of dust coating the snowcapped Colorado Rockies is accelerating river runoff and has farmers scrambling to avoid an arid crop season, the Los Angeles Times reports. An unusually high number of dust storms and unseasonably warm temperatures have caused rivers to swell near flood stage. “It creates... More »

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environment • water • Colorado Rockies • crops • Colorado • mountain

 Supermax Neighbors 
 Fear Gitmo Influx 

Townspeople worry that transfer will make them a target for terrorists

May 23, 09 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - People who live near some of America's most notorious killers fear closing Guantanamo Bay will wreck their neighborhood, the New York Times reports. Residents of Cañon City, Colo., close to the Florence "Supermax" prison, worry the detainees will be transferred there, making them a target for terrorists and... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • prison system • federal prison • Colorado • Guantanamo prisoners • Supermax

Oprah Cans Columbine Episode

10th anniversary show set for today 'focused too much on the killers'

Apr 20, 09 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey canceled an episode of her show commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings, set to air today, the New York Post reports. “After reviewing it, I thought it focused too much on the killers,” Winfrey said of the scrapped show in a Facebook posting. “... More »

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television • Oprah Winfrey • talk show • Colorado • anniversary • Columbine school massacre • talk-show host • school shootings

 Columbine Marks 
 10-Year Milestone 

Colorado comes together to remember victims, support survivors

Apr 20, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Survivors of the Columbine High School massacre will gather today to mark 10 years since two seniors killed 12 classmates and a teacher in a bullet-fueled rampage that shook the country, USA Today reports. The anniversary is an opportunity for the community to come together for the survivors, Principal Frank... More »

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school shooting • Colorado • Columbine school massacre • Eric Harris • Dylan Klebold • shooting

 Woman Tapes Puppy to Fridge 

Abby Toll faces animal cruelty charges after bizarre fight with boyfriend

Apr 17, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 20-year-old University of Colorado at Boulder student faces animal cruelty charges after taping her boyfriend’s Shiba Inu puppy to a refrigerator, NBC 9 Colorado reports. Abby Toll apparently didn’t like Rex, boyfriend Bryan Beck’s dog, and taped up the animal after the two had a fight.... More »

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animal cruelty • abuse • domestic violence • puppy • Colorado • dog • Abby Toll • Bryan Beck • Boulder, Colo.

(Newser) - A Colorado woman who wanted to advertise her vegan diet with an ILVTOFU vanity license plate is out of luck, the Denver Post reports. The state’s DMV maintains a list of banned letter combinations, of which FU is one. “We don’t allow ‘FU’ because some people... More »

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Denver • censorship • Colorado • Department of Motor Vehicles • cars • license plates • vanity plates • tofu

School Fired Prof Over 9/11 Essay: Jury

He wins case
after calling victims
'little Eichmanns'

Apr 2, 09 9:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - A jury decided today that the University of Colorado unjustly fired one of its professors after he called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns" in an essay, the Denver Post reports. Jurors, however, awarded Ward Churchill only $1 in damages. A judge will now determine whether the school must reinstate Churchill... More »

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free speech • University of Colorado • Ward Churchill • Colorado • professor

 Rocky Mountain News 
 Dead at 150 

Denver saddened, surprised by the closure of old friend 'Rocky'

Feb 28, 09 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - The Rocky Mountain News published its last issue yesterday just short of 150 years after its founder hauled a printing press by oxcart to the nameless gold-rush settlement that would become Denver. Staffers and readers alike mourned the passing of the paper believed to have been Colorado's longest-running business, reports... More »

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newspaper • Denver • Colorado • newspaper industry • recession depression • Rocky Mountain News • Denver Post

(Newser) - The Rocky Mountain News, the oldest paper in Colorado and perhaps the longest-running business in Denver, will print its last edition tomorrow, the Denver Post reports. The news comes after its owner spent months fruitlessly searching for a buyer. “The operating conditions have become increasingly difficult,” the CEO... More »

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Denver • business • Colorado • newspaper industry • recession depression • Rocky Mountain News • Denver Post • failure

Injured Good Samaritan Gets Traffic Ticket for His Efforts

Man who saved others cited for jaywalking

Feb 26, 09 9:51 AM CST
(AP) - A good Samaritan who pushed three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: a jaywalking ticket. A Denver bus driver was helping two elderly women cross a busy street in a snowstorm when he... More »

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accident • Colorado • good samaritan • bus driver • jaywalking

New Energy Draws Obama
to Colo. to Sign Stimulus

Highlights

Feb 16, 09 9:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Last week Barack Obama's team chose Denver for the site of a stimulus rally like the one in Elkhart, Ind., but now that the bill’s been passed, the visit Wednesday has been repurposed as a bill signing. In both cases, the point of picking Colorado was to highlight what... More »

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alternative energy • Denver • Colorado • economic stimulus package

 Horse Tail 
 Thieves 
 Rile Colo. 
 Ranchers 

Who's stealing horses' fly swatters—and why?

Feb 16, 09 7:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Angry horse owners are bridling at bizarre new attacks on their four-hoofed friends, reports the Los Angeles Times: tail theft. One Colorado rancher woke up recently to find someone had chopped off the long flaxen tails of all of his Belgian draft horses. "It makes me so mad,"... More »

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theft • horse • ranch • Colorado

 Colo. District to 
 Ditch Grade Levels 

Students in Adams 50 will progress based on knowledge, not age

Feb 10, 09 2:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Faced with a 58% graduation rate and falling test scores, officials in Colorado’s Adams 50 school district are doing away with traditional grade levels as part of a massive educational transformation, the Christian Science Monitor reports. When the program is fully phased in, students will no longer be separated... More »

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education • high school • Colorado • elementary school • school districts • grades • educational programs

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