Crystal named nation's eighth most endangered river

Water withdrawals are threatening the Green River as potential dams and diversions are putting fish, wildlife and recreation at risk on the Crystal River, according to a new report.

Both rivers made the annual “America's Most Endangered Rivers” report released Tuesday morning. The Green River, the largest feeder to the Colorado Ri...
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Congressman cooks up legislation to strip pizza's 'vegetable' status in schools

LOUISVILLE — In a bustling lunchroom here Monday, when students were asked to raise their hand if they believed pizza was a vegetable, no one did. Yet when the U.S. House and Senate were essentially asked that same question last fall, their answers weren't as smart as the eighth-graders'.

And we're not...
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New study underscores Colorado River's economic pull

The Colorado River provides much of the West with drinking water, water for crops and even water for fracking. In the end, though, it may be the non-consumptive use of recreation that is the river's most important economic contribution to Colorado and the region.

A study released earlier this month and presented at a small forum in Denver makes the case that the river — simply as an object of enjoyment — is the larges...
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Eagle second worst county for Colorado foreclosure sales in first quarter of 2012

While Colorado’s residential real estate market as a whole is slowly climbing out of an historically deep hole, Eagle County remains mired in the depths of a housing crash that started late in 2008.

Eagle County – which slices through the Roaring Fork Valley and includes parts of Basalt, El Jebel and Missouri Heights – was the second worst county in the state in terms of foreclosure sale...
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