Colorado on Tuesday June 30, 2009

CO: Glitch delays jobless claims in Colorado
By Tom McGhee, The Denver Post
Colorado's computerized system for taking claims from the unemployed has crashed repeatedly in recent days, leaving thousands stuck in telephone hold queues and worried they will not receive their benefits.
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CO: New Colorado laws affect rainwater, health care
By Steven K. Paulson, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
One new law set to take effect Wednesday will allow Colorado homeowners to collect rainwater, if they can prove they're not infringing on other water users' rights. That's right, rainwater.
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Furloughs cut into state services
By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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CO: Federal stimulus funds go to Colorado health care
By The Associated Press, The Denver Post
Colorado will receive nearly $17 million in federal stimulus funds to repair and renovate 15 health-care centers across the state.
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CO: Costly repairs to Colorado's Capitol dome must wait
By Claire Trageser, The Denver Post
Gov. Bill Ritter said plans to repair the Capitol's golden dome are on hold, at least for now.
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CO: GOP state lawmaker -- 'Pitchforks about to come out' over drilling regulations
By David O. Williams, Colorado Independent
State Rep. Laura Bradford says ranchers and landowners in and around Grand Junction and Mesa County are enraged by new, more environmentally stringent drilling regulations keeping them from fully developing their oil and gas mineral rights.
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CO: Colorado at center of feds' solar bull's-eye
By Mark Jaffe, The Denver Post
The federal government is carving out public land in Colorado and five other Western states for fast-tracked development of commercial solar power plants, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday. The goal is to have 13 commercial- scale solar power plants under construction by the end of 2010, Salazar said.
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NV: Public lands in 6 states, including Utah, set for solar projects
By Ken Ritter, The Associated Press, The Salt Lake Tribune
LAS VEGAS -- The federal government's top land steward said Monday that the United States will fast-track efforts to build solar power generating facilities on public space in six Western states.
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US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more.
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US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.
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US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
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