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Proposed Bill Signals Hope for Farmers and Trouble for Rights Groups

A bill to help short-handed Colorado farmers is being criticized by some as the wrong way to address the shortage of agricultural workers in...

Bison! It’s What’s for Dinner

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday announced $1.3 million in grants to 21 states to promote agriculture market research ranging from grading goats...

Western Slope Round-Up: Don’t Drink, Breathe, Live or Be a Mountain...

Colorado Confidential perused recent newspaper headlines across the Western Slope to give you a glimpse of current issues. Water, air quality, growth impacts...it's definitely...

Rep. Salazar Scores on Committee Assignments

Congressman John Salazar (CO-3) has been appointed to serve on three House committees: Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs.Salazar will face issues including...

Allard, Musgrave Seek Federal Disaster Relief

As ranchers in southeastern Colorado are assessing their losses caused by two major snowstorms, lawmakers are working to procure federal disaster relief money for...

Immigration: Migrating Views from Rural Colorado

Today, Colorado Confidential is launching a new monthly series examining the lives of Latino immigrants from the geo-perspectives of Denver/Metro, the Eastern Plains and...

Presidential Contender Lights Up Over ‘Trick Question’

Things were going well enough for Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack during a rather ho-hum speech on energy policy in Boulder on Thursday evening until...

Kitchen Table Economics: Warning from the Plains

Stock up now because Grandma's gooey home-made sweet rolls are going to get a lot more expensive. Colorado dryland wheat farmers on the eastern plains...
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