NEW: Mon. March 8, 2010Posted by Janine Mayfield on March 8th, 2010
The Telluride Regional Airport will complete runway project, thanks to $17 million from the federal government. According to the Daily Planet, on Thursday the federal gov’t allocated the money to the airport to be used to improve the runway safety area. This marks the 2nd project for the runway totaling some $58 million in improvements. The previous phase of construction shut down the airport from last spring through this fall and entailed what amounted to a complete overhaul of the runway. This latest phase will widen the remaining safety areas and add an engineered material arresting system.
Source: Daily Planet (Posted 4:01p by Jim Kapp)
Amazon is cutting off affiliates that help it sell products in Colorado because of a new tax on online sales imposed by Gov. Ritter. The Daily Sentinel explains that affiliates earn money by using their Web sites to link customers to online sellers like Amazon. Amazon told affiliates in an e-mail today it would no longer pay them advertising fees because of the new law. The law says online retailers have to start collecting state sales tax themselves or send annual notices to customers telling them to pay the tax.
Source: Daily Sentinel (Posted 4:02p by Jim Kapp)
Crews are preparing to blast away huge boulders deposited on Interstate 70 by a weekend rock slide. As a result, I-70 by Glenwood Canyon will be closed until the road is cleared out. NBC 11 News reports that CDOT spokesperson, Stacy Stegman says crews are drilling holes in the boulders and inserting explosives and blast them into smaller pieces so they can be hauled away. She said the westbound lanes had the worst damage. The slide struck around midnight near Hanging Lake Tunnel. N o injuries or damage to vehicles were reported……
Source: NBC 11 News (Posted 4:04p by Jim Kapp)