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Referendum 5A asks voters to OK hospital tax

The Montezuma County Hospital District is asking voters next week to vote yes on ballot measure 5A, a limited sales and use tax a sales and use tax that will be used to help fund a $14.2 mil...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Referendum 4A asks to freeze DWCD levy

For 28 years, McPhee dam and reservoir have been serving Dolores and Montezuma Counties, plus the Ute Mountain Ute tribe, with municipal and irrigation water. The Dolores Water Co...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Natural oils

Amid energy industry slump, local woman drops drill bits and starts High Desert Naturals

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Mining reclamation requires funding

Mining-reclamation experts this week told a congressional panel that good Samaritan legislation and funding for restoration efforts are “inseparably tied together.” The comments c...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Western Slope’s baby boomers create demand for young workers

Affordable housing, unemployment remain challenges

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Input sought on projects for Montezuma, Dolores counties

The Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado is updating the Dolores and Montezuma County Community Development Action Plans, and public comment is encouraged. ...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

States sue over new clean air rules

WASHINGTON (AP) – States and industry groups dependent on fossil fuels began filing court challenges Friday to President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissio...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Health care website offers more help

The Obama administration is working to make it easier for people to compare health plans and sign up for coverage on the website created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Briefs

Avian flu outbreak hurts supply of eggs Higher egg prices at restaurants and grocery stores are here to stay for a while. An outbreak of avian flu in June triggered a m...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Independent report blames EPA for Gold King spill

Incident could have been prevented, was plagued by errors

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s U.S. senators back public lands bill

Colorado’s U.S. senators are joining a bipartisan effort to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, a Western land program that sold unwanted federal lands in exchange for...

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Western Slope water interests fear transmountain diversion

Official: Plan isn’t policy yet

DATE: Oct 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News