Tag: Arizona
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Position flexibility, intangibles have Royals excited about Air Force grad Sam Kulasingam in first spring training
SURPRISE, Ariz. – Sam Kulasingam’s influence has already impacted the Kansas City Royals. The big story from Royals camp has been the emergence of slugging prospect Jac Caglianone. A 1.235 slugging percentage and a few home runs of 115-plus mph exit velocity for a recent first-round pick will do that. Caglianone points to habits learned…
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Cucumber products recalled in grocery stores across Colorado after possible salmonella outbreak
Albertsons Companies has initiated a voluntary recall of some store-made deli and produce items containing bulk cucumbers associated with a recent illness outbreak, according to a Tuesday news release. The items were available for purchase at Safeway and Albertsons stores in several states in the West and Midwest regions of the U.S., including Colorado, officials…
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Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: 1,470 feet below surface
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unlike strip mines, the Pinyon Plain mine’s surface impact is only 14 acres. The geological formation containing the uranium ore body, called a “breccia pipe,” is about 250 feet in diameter and extends vertically down some 3,000 feet. To mine the ore, a vertical shaft…
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Uranium mining in the Grand Canyon: A dispute over water and geology
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save To critics, the mine poses too much of a risk. To the company, that claim is unsubstantiated. Amber Reimondo, energy director for the Grand Canyon Trust, said the risk of uranium and other minerals migrating out of the mine after mining is completed is too great…
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Uranium mining: A Colorado company pumps out ore, with implications for economy and national security
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Travis Chiotti puts a brass tag bearing his name on a hook on the “in” board before heading 1,400 feet down-shaft. It’s a pair — the other tag goes in his pocket. Just in case. Helmet, headlamp, heavy steel-toed rubber boots, emergency respirator. Check. Mining…
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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Abortion rights advocates attend Women’s March in Denver
Scores of abortion-rights supporters stood outside of the Colorado state Capitol building on Saturday morning with picket signs and then marched down Denver’s 16th Street Mall almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal legal protections for abortion. Other Women’s March events kicked off in multiple cities across the country, including Tampa,…
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Colorado Economic Development Commission approves $14 million in incentives
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five companies could potentially bring nearly 1,300 new jobs across Colorado with economic development incentives to entice them. The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Economic Development Commission Thursday approved just over $14 million in economic incentives for five companies identified only by…