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Quote of the day

"Everyone had kind of hoped that would be all behind us, that all the bloodletting had occurred last year.

-- Gary Horvath, at the University of Colorado's Boulder Business Research Division, on the elimination of 1,000 jobs at Merrill Lynch's regional office.

Editor's notes

In the Rockies today, a trio of stories shows Colorado's Front Range economy stumbled badly and hasn't yet regained its balance.

Merrill Lynch will close its Douglas County office complex, eliminate the jobs of more than 1,000 workers and sell its two office buildings.

Last year, the company employed 1,950 people and was the county's third-largest employer.

Colorado lost an estimated 31,500 jobs last year, and the impact is showing up in a recent record for home foreclosures, the most since 1992.

And unemployment surged in November in metro Denver to its highest point since June 1996. Boulder and Colorado Springs weren't far behind, reflecting the carnage in the high-tech and telecom industries.

Page 2 highlights:

Foes of Montana timber sale say agency exaggerates losses.

New Mexico gets another dry winter.

Colorado's lieutenant governor will look for new job.

Utah hate-crime law looks less likely.

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Rockies Today

Merrill Lynch cancels 1,000 Colorado jobs.
Merrill Lynch will pull 1,000 staffers from its Douglas County, Colo., offices by next summer, adding to more than 31,500 lost jobs in the state during the past year.
Denver Post; Jan. 4
Olympics will include rodeo, widespread demonstrations.
Olympic officials said they will go ahead with a contested rodeo as part of the games' cultural events, and animal-rights advocates said they will step up their protests.
Salt Lake Tribune; Jan. 4

Nevada senators ignore Energy secretary, focus on test site.
Nevada's senators pushing an anti-terrorist training camp at the former Nevada test site won't be seen with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, after aides announced Abraham would also visit the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste depository.
Las Vegas Review-Journal; Jan. 4

Environmentalists protest rumored Bush Interior appointee.
President Bush is said to be considering for an Interior post the executive director of the Cody Chamber of Commerce, who is also a former aid to Dick Cheney and an outspoken opponent of Yellowstone's snowmobile ban.
Denver Post; Jan. 4

Opinion

Alberta's future is in its cities.
Alberta's cities are constitutionally deemed second-string entities, but that lack of authority that must change, according to a Calgary think tank.
Edmonton Journal; Jan. 4

Salt Lake should never be a city that never sleeps.
Salt Lake City is known as a safe, clean, family-oriented city, and to try to boost the city's night life to accommodateOlympic visitors or to attract new industry is not warranted.
Deseret News; Jan. 3

Beyond the region

Manitoba bans game farm hunts.
Manitoba has banned pen hunting, shooting game within a fenced enclosure, a decision that could affect Alberta's review, as well.
National Post; Jan. 4

In depth

Market pushes companies toward gentler logging.
Environmentalists are using the forces of global markets to pressure timber companies to protect pristine Canadian forests and use best practices in tropical rainforests.
Idaho Statesman; Jan. 2

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