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Colorado gets $424M for FasTracks, Union Station Federal Transit Administration officials were in Denver on Friday to announce future funding of FasTracks and the development of Union Station as a transit center. Denver Post ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story As SmartGrid costs spiral upward, Colorado increases oversight The Colorado Public Utilities Commission announce it was increasing oversight of Xcel Energy's proposal to build a "smart grid" in Boulder, which allows the utility to remotely do such things as read meters and detect power outages in the Colorado city, after the cost of the project grew from $15.3 million to $42.1 million. Boulder Daily Camera ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story LDS Church project revives Salt Lake City's downtown area The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched an ambitious $1-billion City Creek Center to stave off urban blight around Temple Square and has recently purchased additional property in Salt Lake City. New York Times ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Budget crisis darkens Colorado's second-largest city Every third streetlight in Colorado Springs is turned off, public trash bins have disappeared and maintenance of the Colorado city's parks severely curtailed after voters nixed a proposal to triple property taxes to address a $28-million budget shortfall. Toronto National Post; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Amtrak reports fewer riders boarded trains in Montana in 2009 According to a report released last week, the number of people climbing aboard or deboarding Amtrak trains at Montana's 12 stops in 2009 fell to 2005 levels. Great Falls Tribune ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Navajo Nation set to go on a public-safety building spree The Navajo Tribal Council voted to approve a $60-million unsecured general obligation loan to build 13 public safety and judicial complexes, and construction could begin as early as mid-March. Farmington Daily Times; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story President's budget would cut housing funds for Indian reservations President Obama's budget unveiled last week provided a mixed bag for American Indians, including more funding for law enforcement and health care, but less funding for housing and other construction projects. Great Falls Tribune ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
NPS, USFS dispute Montana's proposal on Yellowstone bison The Montana Department of Livestock unveiled its new proposed management plan for bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park, which would haze, capture or slaughter the animals if too many cross the border into the state at once, a plan that both Gallatin National Forest and National Park Service officials said is too strict, and the federal agencies urged the state to give the 2008 plan a little more time. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana outfitters say initiative's aim is bad The sponsor of a ballot initiative that would change the way outfitters secure hunting licenses for their out-of-state clients -- and raise the cost of those licenses -- said I-161 isn't perfect, but it's a means to open up more private land to public access, but outfitters said the initiative won't do that. Missoulian ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Breeding program increases pronghorn numbers in Arizona The Sonoran pronghorn population in southern Arizona is just one of three in the world, and the captive breeding program has increased the number of pronghorn from 21 in 2002 to about 140 now. Arizona Republic; Feb. 6 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Montana senator, congressman visit the Bitterroot Valley Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester spent time Saturday in the Bitterroot Valley, where he met with Great Bear Restoration officials, who said they wanted equal access to federal contracts for native plants; and U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg was also in the Montana valley, to speak at the annual Lincoln/Reagan luncheon. Ravalli Republic ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Utah bill will reclassify garbage-generated power as 'renewable' Utah state Rep. Roger Barrus sponsored a bill to reclassify trash in the state's landfills as a renewable source of energy; the measure was passed by a subcommittee on to the full House for action. Deseret News ; Feb. 7 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Fewer bills await Wyoming legislators as session begins The 2010 legislative session begins today in Wyoming, where lawmakers will have less money and less time than in past sessions, as well as fewer bills to consider. Casper Star-Tribune ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming bill would mandate collection of rangeland information A bill proposed for consideration this legislative session in Wyoming would require the state to collect information on rangelands to help county and local governments make informed decisions and to take stands on proposed changes to activity on those rangelands. Billings Gazette (Casper Star-Tribune); Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Pro-nuclear energy group hosts meeting Thursday in Wyoming Wyoming-based Citizens for Uranium Resource Education will hold an informational meeting about uranium enrichment and nuclear power on Thursday in Casper. Casper Star-Tribune; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(1) Email Story Town seeks $350K from Colorado for micro-hydro plant Basalt will apply for a $350,000 grant from Colorado's clean energy fund to build a micro-hydroelectric plant on the pipelines that bring water from springs on Basalt Mountain to the Colorado town. Aspen Times ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Sunflowers provide power to Colorado plant San Juan Bioenergy in Colorado began making biofuel from sunflowers in 2006, but now the plant churns out food-grade oil from sunflowers and safflowers and turns the hulls and green waste into pellets that are burned to create power for the plant. Denver Post ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story TransCanada tells Montana: Keystone Pipeline comes first After Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told the state Public Service Commission to explore getting an "on-ramp" for Montana-produced oil on TransCanada's 1,980-mile Keystone XL pipeline that will pass through the Big Sky State on its way from Alberta to Houston, TransCanada officials told Schweitzer that the company's first priority is getting the pipeline built, and then it will consider where to put access points for producers along the way. Missoulian (AP); Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana firm turns to N.Y. city for airfare solution John Barrett, whose company's planned expansion is hindered by the high cost of flying out of Missoula, is hoping that the Montana city can come up with a solution similar to that in Syracuse, N.Y., where businesses sat down with airlines to work on schedules that served business travelers best and committed a percentage of their travel budgets to help advertise the new service. Missoulian ; Feb. 8 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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