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Ranchers, the government and developers are hashing out the relationship between public and private land on the Colorado-New Mexico border.
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"People come into my office to get married. It's a happy office. There are a lot of benefits that come with state-sanctioned marriage. I think everyone has an equal right to those benefits."
Utah's ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional. Merry couples have been flocking to clerk offices to get hitched. Did you hear the outrage? Neither did Jeffrey Toobin.
DENVER -- Gay rights supporters in Colorado are applauding the New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state, celebrating the unanimous decision as yet another in a cascade of similar developments.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited his native state Monday where he declared there will be “better days ahead” but, he also warned, Colorado and the nation have not seen the end of fire season.
Rising temperatures are projected to trigger more wildfires in nearly all of North America and most of Europe, according to a new study, but climate change may have the opposite effect around the equator.