Colorado on Wednesday October 28, 2009

CO: Gov. Ritter adds four state furlough days in 2010
By Tim Hoover, The Denver Post
State employees, many of whom are set to take four furlough days this year, will see four more unpaid days in the first six months of 2010, Gov. Bill Ritter said Tuesday.
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CO: Personhood initiative lining up friends and foes
By Joseph Boven, Colorado Independent
A version of the anti-abortion initiative soundly defeated by Colorado voters in 2008 is making its way to the 2010 ballot, this time reworked as an "egg-as-a-person" initiative.
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CO: Wind-turbine maker Vestas to slow Colorado job growth
By Mark Jaffe, The Denver Post
A weak market for wind turbines in the U.S. will slow job growth at Vestas Wind Systems' four Colorado plants, Ditlev Engel, the company's chief executive, said Tuesday.
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CO: Stimulus money a "lifeline" for Colorado
By Burt Hubbard, The Denver Post
The stimulus money flowing through state agencies has saved or created almost 4,500 jobs in Colorado so far, most of them in colleges and prisons.
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CO: Colorado in crosshairs of nuke boom if climate bill sparks uranium revival
By David O. Williams , Colorado Independent
Colorado, historically a major uranium-producing state, will be ground zero of the nation's nuclear revival if that form of power enjoys the renaissance proponents say is necessary for climate change legislation to win approval in the U.S. Senate.
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WY: Little consensus at states energy meeting in Wyo.
By Ben Neary, The Associated Press, The Idaho Statesman (Boise)
JACKSON, Wyo. — Lawmakers from around the West have wrapped up a three-day symposium on energy issues without reaching consensus on tough questions about how to address carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
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