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Enron’s Skilling: Involuntary Littleton resident hated like a terrorist

By | 03.01.10 | 9:52 pm

Convicted capitalist criminal and former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling says he was too detested in Houston to get a fair trial. He lives in a minimum security prison in Littleton now, far from the steel and glass corner…

State Rep. Rice to ship out to Baghdad for fourth military deployment

By | 05.15.09 | 5:04 pm

Army Reserve Colonel and Littleton Democrat Joe Rice announced today that he will be deployed to Iraq this month — his fourth tour to the war-torn region to train Iraqi security forces.

Modular biopower yet to take root in Colorado despite beetle-kill epidemic

By | 05.15.09 | 7:37 am

Robb Walt, cofounder of Littleton-based Community Power Corporation, says he’s doing a brisk business these days in modular biopower systems, but not in Colorado despite a huge potential fuel load in the form of a mountain bark-beetle epidemic that’s killed millions of acres of lodgepole pines.

Honey, let’s float a ballot initiative!

By | 02.27.09 | 3:55 pm

Is Barack Obama’s birth certificate a fake? Has he illegally sneaked lessons he learned as an infant born somewhere “over there” into the highest office of the land?

That’s one of the more popular set of ideas animating attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week in D.C. and, Colorado voters will be pleased to learn, one that also informs an amendment appearing on the list of proposed initiatives for the 2010 ballot.

Reaching Out to Immigrants One By One

By | 12.20.07 | 9:41 am

Integrating foreign-born newcomers can be difficult, but a mentoring program in Littleton is finding success in an individualized approach.

Free Speech Question In Littleton

By | 12.03.06 | 7:06 pm

Community members against a proposed Wal-Mart “super center” in their neighborhood were not allowed to wear buttons or T-shirts during a city hall meeting in Littleton last week.

Now, with another meeting taking place tomorrow, there are questions over…