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And the Winner Isn't ...

A company sues after a lobbying blitz at the legislature fails to net it a state contract.

By Scott C. Yates
Apr 23, 1998

A controversial plan to hire a private company to nag Colorado motorists without car insurance took an unexpected turn earlier this year: It landed in court when the Utah firm that lobbied for the measure at the legislature didn't get the job. And the lawsuit by Insure-Rite, Inc., over a...
Juvenile Behavior

What's the real reason the state pulled forty boys from a controversial private prison?

By Scott C. Yates
Apr 16, 1998

Earlier this month, Colorado corrections officials pulled all the state's prisoners out of a juvenile jail where thirteen-year-old Matthew Thomas Maloney hung himself this past February. But was it concern for the boys that prompted the swift action against the High Plains Youth Center in the farming town of Brush,...
Spin Cycles

Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

By Scott C. Yates
Apr 16, 1998

In November 1996, Amendment 15 got more votes than any other measure or candidate on the Colorado ballot. Voters approved by a two-to-one margin the package of campaign-finance reforms, which for the first time placed limits on the amount individuals and political action committees can give to candidates for state...
Remains of the Day

A new Wal-Mart in Pueblo means no rest in peace for a group of Colorado pioneers.

By Scott C. Yates
Apr 2, 1998

Colorado's future ran headlong into its past on a dusty piece of land north of Pueblo last month. A bulldozer driver preparing the ground for a new Wal-Mart store unearthed a grave site within view of Interstate 25. At first he thought he'd found animal bones. But when he saw...
Cowboys and Influence

A state senator and his range-riding pal team up to hog-tie a crucial piece of telephone legislation.

By Scott C. Yates
Mar 19, 1998

It was no surprise last month when a bill giving state regulators the power to fine phone companies that provide shoddy service breezed through the Colorado House. After all, the measure is backed by consumer groups and, in a rare twist, most of the phone companies who stand to be...

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