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<br />run by liars, cheats
<br />Ilaniacs. But the latest
<br />ica] money-raising
<br />capital also is domi.
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<br />g-ton is shocked, aghast
<br />I. charges that Bill
<br />re may have placed
<br />'calls from the halo
<br />While House.
<br />the RepubHean Con-
<br />.'Iy Beltway pundits.
<br />Ie rest of the nation.
<br />ee_al that
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<br />; ked in a righteous
<br />tiC'e that most people
<br />tics as usual.
<br />, takes smarmy earn-
<br />~ is like a prostitute
<br />ock lips long enough
<br />,wd and somebody's
<br />lething bad. It's just
<br />the profession.
<br />lS outraged that so
<br />;'aged. Isn't it amaz-
<br />IY have swapped ac.
<br />donations?
<br />IS amazing that no
<br />, €'<I doing the same
<br />Jrrent system of carn-
<br />I os! every congres.
<br />nctioned, at some
<br />, It of a political carn-
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<br />I ,do Rep. Dan Schaefer
<br />ations" from out-of-
<br />because he's sponsor-
<br />late utilities. Why did
<br />; Irth load up on mon-
<br />dealers? Because he
<br />IJnsoring a bill clamp-
<br />,md dealers.
<br />JW takes roughly S3
<br />effective U.s. Senate
<br />'ans a senator must
<br />day just to keep his
<br />how Washington pol-
<br />t' patience with any
<br />cts to talk for free.
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<br />0ngresspenon is re-
<br />. message. It's illegal
<br />but it stin is perfect-
<br />l politician's ear.
<br />y of the business, this
<br />Ing access." It's the
<br />lte behemoths such
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<br />l'publican parties.
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<br />By MIchelle Dally Johnston
<br />Denver Post Sla" Wntef
<br />State oHicials Monday presented the
<br />owner of the historic Taylor Ranch with a
<br />sa million "proposal," as rt.'Sidents of the
<br />San Luis Valley got their day in court in a
<br />decades-old fight to regain the right to use
<br />the ranch land.
<br />Jim Lochhead, chairman of Sangre de
<br />Cristo Land Grant Commission and execu-
<br />tive director of the Colorado Department
<br />of Natural Resources, sent Zachary Taylor
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<br />Trial on TaYlor land begins
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<br />a letter asking if he would consider $12
<br />million for the remaining 53,000 acres of
<br />the ranch. Taylor sold 23,000 acres in Au-
<br />gust.
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<br />Tom Kenyon, deputy director cir the
<br />slate parks system and lead negoti..tor in
<br />the purchase of the ranch, acknowledged
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<br />the proposal was timed to coincide witn
<br />the start of the litigation, noting that if
<br />Taylor loses this court battle the value of
<br />the land will likely decrease.
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<br />"In return for cheaper purchase of the
<br />ranch, we would seUle the case with the
<br />community," Kenyon said.
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<br />Colorado Department of Transportation crews remove
<br />mud from the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 near Pall-
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<br />SpeCl'ltoTheDenverPoStl~.yKllIkOw'ki
<br />sade on Monday, Heavy rains on Sunday brought a 100-
<br />'oot-wlde swath of mud and rocks down onto ttle highway.
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<br />Forecasters warn of ,fierce fall
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<br />By Kristen Hartz.11
<br />$peel,lte The Den....f PO$I
<br />DURANGO - Forget the dire predic-
<br />tions of a wild and woolly winter. Fore-
<br />casters now believe Colorado residents
<br />might have to weather a potentially fero--
<br />dous fall flood season first.
<br />A series 01 storms that brought heavy
<br />rains, hail and dangerous winds to the
<br />Western Slope over the weekend may be
<br />a sign of things to come. Hurricanes
<br />building over the Pacific Ocean and an
<br />unusually stable band of monsoon mois-
<br />ture streaming up from the Gulf of Mexi-
<br />co are threatening to collide over the
<br />southwestern U.S. in the coming weeks.
<br />"These systems have been meeting
<br />somewhere over New Mexico and bring-
<br />ing the unsettled air straight up over us,"
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<br />W Slope gets taste
<br />of what could come
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<br />conditions are ripe lor flash floods and
<br />dangerous slides.
<br />The west-central and north.....estern
<br />parts of the state <Were hardest hit by
<br />weekend storms. Baseball-sized hajj was
<br />reported in Fruita on Saturday, trees and
<br />power lines were blown over in Rangely,
<br />and a IOO-foot-wide swath of mud and
<br />rocks buried Portions of 1-70 near Pali-
<br />sade on Sund..'ty.
<br />"It's just solid mud out here. The slide
<br />brought dO'ofB boulders as big as Toyotas,
<br />and the ralli just keeps on coming," said
<br />John Ogden. owner of Mesa CountrY Re-
<br />alty in Pahsade. -
<br />Ogden said a neighbor grabbt>d old
<br />real estate signs and stuffed them In
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<br />said National Weather Service meteorol-
<br />ogist Bob Jacobson in Grand Junction.
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<br />"We've had a lot of moisture across
<br />the. Western Slope in the past few
<br />months, and now' we're heading into the
<br />eastern Pacific hurricane season. It
<br />could be a very wet month," Jacobson
<br />said.
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<br />Officials say Western Slope soils are
<br />heavily saturated from frequent summer
<br />storms, and autumn rains will have no-
<br />where to go but downstream. With Colo-
<br />rado's wettest month only a week away,
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<br />court to regain thp. ri
<br />their cattle and gatl
<br />tinuing legal quP.
<br />clouded title to the I
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<br />Taylor, who i~ in
<br />which opened Mond;l
<br />said he'd heard nothl
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<br />lormation and deceit.
<br />Interior Bruce Babbit
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<br />have ever confronled
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<br />told severa] hu.ndred'
<br />members at the l'n!
<br />campus.
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<br />wide barnstorming tt"
<br />in an effort to rotrSe ~
<br />Clinton's position tha
<br />emissions must be rf'o'l
<br />Greenhouse gases ,1;
<br />bon dioxide that arc I
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<br />A group of marl.' l'
<br />from across the worltl
<br />are building up in the
<br />trapping heat and ('~
<br />warm.
<br />A warmer atmo."p:
<br />melting that would P"
<br />the world's oceans. ,;,
<br />and inundate shoreline
<br />scientist.. have said
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<br />age temperature will rt
<br />bv the vear 2050. In al
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