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Non-Profit News: Special Transit

A private, vintage car collection will be open to the public Sunday during a fundraiser for Special Transit, an organization that gets people where...

Rifle Big Game Hunting Season Starts Today

A sporting goods store in downtown Rifle is ready and waiting for the elk hunters coming in for limited licensed rifle elk hunting over...

Lawyers And Math

The Denver Bar Association has once again proved the truism that many people go to law school because they can't handle math.Denver's Bar Association,...

The Cost Of Contempt

Usually the phrase "contempt of court" is a mere legal label for actions that violate a court order. But when the judge is on...

Non-Profit News: Suicide Resource Center of Larimer County

Every nine days someone in Larimer County commits suicide.Every nine days someone in Larimer County commits suicide. Most people are shocked by that statistic,...

Colorado’s Horses: In the Stable or on the Table?

Controversy rages with the slaughter of more than 31,000 unwanted horses this year. While Congress considers legal remedies, vets and livestock owners line up...

Criminal Ban On Political Lies Held Unconstitutional

A new state legal precedent for libel in the political arena arrives just in time for the 2008 election. What does it mean for...

Part II: Project Rulison Protester Remembers the Bomb

The history of America's atomic age from nearly 40 years ago is haunting Colorado once again. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, now called the Department...

Part I: Project Rulison Protester Remembers the Bomb

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, now called the Department of Energy, was experimenting with ways to use atomic energy in a "friendly" way back...

Is the Rulison Nuclear Site Too “Hot” to Drill?

A 43-kiloton nuclear bomb was exploded in 1969 in an experiment called the "Rulison Project" by the US Department of Energy to free up...