It’s moving day for some two dozen marijuana dispensaries warned to move or close by the top federal lawyer in Colorado. U.S. Attorney John Walsh gave 23 marijuana dispensaries near schools a Monday deadline to shut down, move or face federal penalties. Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Industry Groups says the affected dispensaries have complied. MMIG Executive [...] [...]
The Obama administration will spend about $50 million this year to shield the Great Lakes from greedy Asian carp, including first-time water sampling to determine whether the destructive fish have established a foothold in Lakes Michigan and Erie, officials said Thursday. An updated federal strategy for preventing an invasion also includes stepped-up trapping and netting [...] [...]
Remember those great ideas you had for an invention that could make money and put you on easy street? It might be time to pull them out of the closet and dust them off. Patent lawyers, politicians and scientists are pushing for a U.S. patent bureau in Colorado. Also in the running are New Mexico, [...] [...]
A draft settlement between the nation’s major banks and U.S. states over deceptive foreclosure practices has been sent to state officials for review. Those who lost their homes to foreclosure are unlikely to get their homes back or benefit much financially from the settlement, which could be as high as $25 billion. About 750,000 Americans [...] [...]
The federal government may cut millions of dollars a year in direct subsidy payments to Colorado farmers for corn, wheat and soybean crops. The cuts are part of agriculture reform heading to the U.S. Senate in a couple of months. Instead of subsidies, farmers are asking for a government-backed insurance program that would safeguard farmers [...] [...]
Two years after the economic stimulus plan, a new government audit finds that about one-third of the money authorized for an energy efficiency program has not been spent. The Energy Department’s inspector general says that state and local governments have left as much $879 million unspent from a $2.7 billion program intended to boost energy [...] [...]
I don’t understand why the federal government keeps trying to stick its nose in our business here in Colorado. It seems like every few months or so, Congress or the Environmental Protection Agency keeps trying to take over regulation of our oil and gas industry. The state already does a bang up job but still, [...] [...]
Colorado is part of a $92 million multi-state settlement with JPMorgan Chase to settle allegations that people working for subsidiaries of the financial holding company engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the municipal bond derivatives industry. The settlement is one component of a $228 million coordinated law enforcement and regulatory action, involving the Department of Justice, [...] [...]
“Don’t trust anyone over 30” was the hippy chant of the 1960s. In the 1980s, when dealing with the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” And the 1990s television show “The X-Files” gave us the conspiratorial, “Trust no one.” But what about today? Who do the American people trust? It turns out [...] [...]
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