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Utah Supreme Court says voters get say on high-end resort The Utah Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Beaver County and a lower court improperly denied a voter referendum on the proposed $3.5-billion Mount Holly Club resort, and ordered that such a referendum on the project must be held before it can proceed. Salt Lake Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Company pitches plasma-energy plan to Utah county commission Davis County already pulls methane gas from its landfills to generate electricity which the Utah county then sells to Hill Air Force Base, and on Tuesday a Georgia company pitched a plan to do a feasibility study on processing waste using plasma energy, which uses very high temperatures to reduce waste to a synthetic gas similar to natural gas and an obsidian-like glass, which can be used in insulation or mixed into asphalt for road mix. Salt Lake Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Groups may sue again over Montana plant's air-quality permit Residents of Thompson Falls and the Clark Fork Coalition are contemplating suing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for issuing a sixth air-quality permit for Thompson River Power, a troubled power plant that was sold to the community as a state-of-the-art biomass-burning power plant that quickly began burning coal and routinely violating air-pollution limits before closing in 2005. Missoulian; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(1) Email Story Montana city annexes 207 acres The Kalispell City Council voted Monday to annex a 207-acre parcel on the Montana city's southern edge on which a developer is proposing to build 535 homes and a business center. Kalispell Daily Inter Lake; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Special Olympics torch arrives in Boise today The Special Olympics Flame of Hope will arrive in Idaho's capital city this afternoon, with opening ceremonies for the 2009 Special Olympics planned Saturday. Idaho Statesman; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Funding freeze may halt construction of U. of Colo. arts complex Colorado had pledged $18.47 million for the construction of a $63.5 million visual arts complex on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus, but a funding freeze puts completion of the building in peril. Boulder Daily Camera; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Study: N.M. pueblo used chocolate in 1000 A.D. Previous studies had not found cacao in areas now known as the United States until after the 15th century, but in a new report published this week, scientists said they found evidence of theobromine, the chemical that serves as a distinct marker for cacao, on shards of pottery in northwest New Mexico that date back to 900 to 1168 A.D. Los Angeles Times; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Montana Nobel Prize winner disputes 'clean coal' Steve Running, a University of Montana professor who shared in the Nobel Prize for climate-change work, said that data supports that the Earth is heating up and that ultimately Montana could end up looking like Utah--not that there's anything wrong with that. Helena Independent Record; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
N.M. governor's aide named in pay-to-play lawsuit Gov. Bill Richardson's political aide Dave Contarino was identified at a news conference Tuesday as "John Doe No. 2" in a lawsuit filed over allegations of pay-to-play activity at the Educational Retirement Board and the State Investment Council, an allegation Contarino denied in a statement as "a total fairy tale." Santa Fe New Mexican; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Arizona high court rules state can't ask cities for money The Arizona Supreme Court ruled the Legislature's requirement that cities pay $30 million to help balance the current state budget was unconstitutional. Arizona Republic; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado House panel advances hands-free cellphone bill The Colorado House Transportation and Energy Committee voted 9-2 to advance legislation that would require most cellphone users to use hands-free devices while driving and would ban text messaging while driving. Denver Post; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Partisan bickering stalls road-funds bill in Colorado Colorado lawmakers agreed that finding a way to pay for roads and bridge repair would be a priority this session, but debate on the FASTER legislation has stalled over allowing counties to impose tolls on existing roads and an experimental program to charge drivers for miles driven. Denver Post; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho lawmakers: January revenues will refocus budget work Although the figures weren't yet official, the news that Idaho's revenue came in about $35 million less than projected had lawmakers indicating that their focus on the state budget would shift from what to cut to what the state could afford to fund. Idaho Statesman; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho bill would raise school drop-out age to 18 The Idaho House has agreed to consider legislation that would raise the legal drop-out age of students from 16 to 18. Spokane Spokesman Review; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana American Indian Caucus lays out legislative agenda At a news conference in Helena Tuesday, the nine members of the Montana American Indian Caucus told the Legislature that economic development and job creation were at the top of their legislative agenda. Great Falls Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana bill would allow counties to log federal land Montana Sen. Dave Lewis said he knows his Senate Bill 34 violates the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause, but said desperate times call for drastic measures, and the bill would allow counties to go in and reduce fuels on federal forest lands if the federal government was unwilling or unable to do so. Great Falls Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nevada lawmaker casts a large net for new revenue sources Nevada Sen. Bob Coffin, who chairs the state Senate Taxation Committee, has long championed expanding the state's revenue base and he said that with the current dire budget situation, that any industry in the state could face higher or new taxes. Las Vegas Review-Journal; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.M. House OKs bill to cancel $94M of capital projects The New Mexico House approved a package of bills crafted to address the state's projected $450-million budget deficit and sent the measures to the state Senate for action. Santa Fe New Mexican; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Off-road groups tell N.M. lawmakers new rules not needed New Mexico lawmakers are working on new regulations for off-road vehicles, but some off-road groups said new rules aren't needed, while others said new fines for violating rules will help rein in scofflaw riders. Santa Fe New Mexican; Feb. 3 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah House bill gives farmers priority water rights over urban users Under legislation advanced by a Utah House committee, irrigation water rights from the 19th century would get priority over most other uses; the full House must now take action on the measure. Salt Lake Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah House panel advances bill to fund counties' road battles A Utah lawmaker from Kanab proposed legislation that would allow counties to divert 30 percent of some road-maintenance funds from the state to help counties pay for litigation filed over control of roads on public lands. Salt Lake Tribune; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Montana mine lays off nearly half its work force Montana Tunnels Mine in Jefferson City told 82 of its 186 employees to go home on Tuesday, as the Montana mine exhausted resources in its open-pit mine and cannot secure funding to expand; 104 employees will continue to process stockpiled ore. Helena Independent Record; Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Drilling permits drop, BLM sales profits decline in Wyoming The Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said the 446 drilling permits issued last month was 28 percent lower than the 628 issued in January of 2008, and at Tuesday's Bureau of Land Management lease auction sales were down 87 percent from a similar auction conducted Feb. 5 last year. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); Feb. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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