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By Andy Vuong, The Denver Post
BLACK HAWK, Colo. — Rolling dice, spinning roulette wheels and ringing $100 slot machines ushered in a new era in gambling in Colorado's high country early today.
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By Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post
Colorado's overall crime rate dropped last year for the third time since 2005, and property crimes continued to fall in the state despite a persistent recession.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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Colorado Governor's mansion grounds spruced up
By Colleen O'Connor, The Denver Post
Five little girls talked garden talk with first lady Jeannie Ritter on Wednesday afternoon. They discussed snails and lady bugs and worms, and helped fill flower pots on the front porch of the Governor's Residence.
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21 couples enroll under Colorado beneficiary law
By Claire Trageser, The Denver Post
On the first day that unmarried couples could enter into a legal contract that gives them many of the rights that used to be reserved for married couples, only 21 Denver and Boulder County couples enrolled.
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New Colorado auto fees stir shock, anger
By Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post
Yolanda Suazo's voice and hands shook as she pointed to papers indicating she had just paid $393.37 to register her 2007 Chevy Trailblazer — almost $100 more than she had expected.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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States, districts in delicate dance on stimulus
By Alyson Klein, Education Week
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is clear: States are on the hook for advancing education improvement goals spelled out in the law as a condition for receiving up to $100 million in economic-stimulus aid to education.
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