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Work visa change further stems flow of foreign workers for ski resorts

By | 09.24.09 | 12:57 pm

An international visa program that for years has allowed ski instructors and other resort workers from Australia, New Zealand, South America and Europe to work at Colorado ski areas just took another major hit – this time from an unlikely…

Ritter misses mark on resorts’ foreign worker shortage

By | 01.29.09 | 4:17 pm

Gov. Bill Ritter’s comment Thursday that Colorado’s ski and hospitality industries are being hurt by tougher state immigration laws adopted in 2006 is only partly true.