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Man found dead on Orchard Mesa near Department of Energy site
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Briefs, July 25, 2009
Free food packages given out
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$250,000 put in Emergency Fire Fund
Because the state’s Emergency Fire Fund is as dry as a pine beetle-infested forest, Gov. Bill Ritter authorized an emergency expenditure of $250,000 to the fund Thursday.
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Health care grants go to Western Slope agencies
Fruita will get a full-time public-health services office, and emergency health-services workers in western Colorado will get laptop computers they can use to help with patients.
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Pols seek gas leases in phases
Three Colorado congressmen are trying to attach a provision to an anti-oil-speculation measure that would call for phased oil-and-gas leasing of the Roan Plateau.
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Tax hike unlikely to affect gas, heating prices, report says
A proposal aimed at eliminating a sizable tax credit for energy companies in Colorado will have little effect on gasoline and natural gas prices, according to an analysis the Sonoran Institute released Thursday.
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Protest set at McCain's Denver speech
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is scheduled to give a speech today in Denver, and librarian Carol Kreck plans to be there with her own message.
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McCain edges past Obama in new Colo. poll
Sen. John McCain pulled slightly ahead of Sen. Barack Obama in a new poll of likely Colorado voters, erasing a five-point lead the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had a month ago.
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Venues, vidi, vici: Race is on
As Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean toured Invesco Field at Mile High on Thursday, hundreds of workers in Denver and St. Paul, Minn., worked to remake the venues that will stage the national conventions.
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Escapee kills family, self
Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, Internet "Spam King" Eddie Davidson fatally shot his wife and child and wounded a teenage girl before turning the gun on himself.
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