Colorado lawmakers say they’re making progress on bills as they near the halfway point of their 120-day session, but large issues like the state budget still loom…The Colorado Senate has approved an amendment to a bill that would strip Division of Real Estate Director Erin Toll of her authority to regulate mortgage lenders and give that job to a board…and, Xcel Energy plans to spend $1.5 million to muffle a high-pitched whine coming from a power plant in Pueblo.
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Colorado lawmakers are considering increasing oversight of its child welfare system following the deaths of 35 children under its care over the past three years…the University of Colorado regents are considering whether to raise tuition by 9 percent for in-state students and 5 percent for new out-of-state students…the union for mechanics at Frontier Airlines is going to court over plans to shift their work from Denver to Milwaukee…Interstate-70 through Glenwood Canyon is reopen after a rockslide closed the highway earlier this week. Loads over 14-ft. wide will still have to find an alternate route until repair crews can complete their work.
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Colorado’s unemployment rate is up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.4 percent, while the Gazette is reporting unemployment in the Colorado Springs area rose .4 percentage points in January…and, Colorado Democrat John Salazar wants to give the federal government more power to negotiate Medicare drug prices.
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The Colorado Senate has unanimously approved a bill to help auto dealers who are dropped by carmakers…The archbishop of Denver is defending a decision by a Catholic school in Colorado not to allow two children to continue as students because their parents are a lesbian couple…and, workers hiked up the side a canyon today to examine another boulder that might fall onto Interstate-70.
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The online retailer Amazon is cutting off affiliates that help it sell products in Colorado because of a new tax on online sales…Colorado Department of Transportation officials are on the scene of a rockslide along I-70 between Glenwood Springs and Dotsero…and, crews from Ft. Carson and El Paso County fire departments are fighting a wind-driven fire on the base. The
Gazette reports that as of this afternoon, the 700-acre fire was 80% contained.
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Welcome to Mise en Place, a journey of culinary delight where anything can happen. Based on the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s list of food by month, KRCC takes a look at farmers, chefs, and fodder, all with a Centennial State bent.
Each month, the state’s agriculture department highlights a commodity and provides a recipe using that product. We take it a step further.
John Socolofsky never thought he’d be raising all-natural lamb…and though the Socolofskys primarily work with pigs, they eventually found Colorado to be a prime place for the sheepish variety. I spoke with John at the Socolofsky Farm in Larkspur, and also visited Jake & Telly’s Greek Taverna in Colorado Springs, where owner Jake Topakas and chef Ruth Henson cooked up a rustic lamb dish.
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Listen as Ruth Henson and Jake Topakas talk about making kapama, and see photos of John Socolofsky’s ewes and the cooking of kapama.
Click below for the Lamb Kapama recipe from Iakovos “Jake” Topakas and Ruth Henson of Jake and Telly’s Greek Taverna, and for a Caribbean Lamb Stew from the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
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