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Feds reject request for streamlined approval of lease deal on UP’s Tennessee Pass rail line

Feds reject request for streamlined approval of lease deal on UP’s Tennessee Pass rail line

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board — the federal agency that oversees railroads — has rejected a request by newly formed Colorado, Midland & Pacific Railroad for expedited approval of its…

Feds delay decision on Union Pacific bid to revive part of Tennessee Pass rail line

Feds delay decision on Union Pacific bid to revive part of Tennessee Pass rail line

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Friday issued a continuance in the closely watched case of Colorado, Midland & Pacific Railway’s bid for an exemption that would seal a…

Colorado railroad wars heat up over Tennessee Pass Line along three rivers

Colorado railroad wars heat up over Tennessee Pass Line along three rivers

Warren Zevon sang it best: “Send lawyers, guns and money,” he bellowed in his hit song of the same title. He might have thrown in “public affairs consultants and politicians”…

Colorado Pacific Railroad challenges Union Pacific over its ‘monopoly stranglehold’

Colorado Pacific Railroad challenges Union Pacific over its ‘monopoly stranglehold’

Colorado Pacific Railroad on Saturday announced it will challenge a deal between Union Pacific and Rio Grande Pacific to possibly rehabilitate the Tennessee Pass Line and offer passenger and freight…

Colorado congressional race offers two very different ways to deal with deadly COVID-19 pandemic

Colorado congressional race offers two very different ways to deal with deadly COVID-19 pandemic

The congressional campaign for Lauren Boebert, a Rifle restaurant owner who last spring violated COVID-19 public health orders, is refusing to answer basic questions about President Donald Trump contracting the…

Demand for 5G on rise in pandemic as Crown Castle, cellular carriers look to rural areas

Demand for 5G on rise in pandemic as Crown Castle, cellular carriers look to rural areas

Seven months into an ongoing global pandemic that has forced workers to telecommute, schools to go online and the health care industry to ramp up telehealth services, the push for…

Hickenlooper, Neguse seek out science in mitigating wildfires, climate change

Hickenlooper, Neguse seek out science in mitigating wildfires, climate change

While touring deadly wildfires in California on Monday, President Donald Trump told state officials pressing him on climate change that “it’ll start getting cooler” and “I don’t think science knows, actually.” Contrast…

Mitsch Bush calls out ‘far-right extremist’ Boebert, who’s all in on gun rights

Mitsch Bush calls out ‘far-right extremist’ Boebert, who’s all in on gun rights

Back in 2018, former Eagle and Routt County state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush had come as close as anyone to toppling five-term Congressman Scott Tipton, losing to him by about…

Facebook kicked off voter registration drive over Fourth of July weekend

Facebook kicked off voter registration drive over Fourth of July weekend

North American Facebook users on Friday were greeted with the company’s Fourth of July voter-registration drive that’s part of a push to sign up more than 4 million people to…

Colorado Attorney General Weiser weighs in on LGBTQ ruling by Gorsuch, SCOTUS

Colorado Attorney General Weiser weighs in on LGBTQ ruling by Gorsuch, SCOTUS

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser Monday night told a Vail Valley Votes Zoom meeting that the Supreme Court decision earlier in the day on LGBTQ rights was “deeply meaningful” and a sign…