Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Top Democrats offer Obama advice President preparing jobs plan

DENVER — Colorado’s top three Democrats have offered their advice to President Barack Obama for the jobs plan he will release Thursday.Promotion of high-tech businesses and access to loans for...

DATE: Sept. 3, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Groups fight water pipeline

Colorado water officials will decide next month whether to pay $150,000 to study a massive pipeline from Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge reservoir to Front Range cities and farms.Although the pipeline...

DATE: Aug. 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

State fights education lawsuit

DENVER — The state put on its star witness Thursday in a costly school funding trial to argue that more money will not lead to a better education for Colorado kids.Several parents and school...

DATE: Aug. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Boosters want SW Colo. race

SALIDA — Less than an hour before Stage 1 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge on Tuesday, fans had mobbed the shiny black bus of local favorite Team Garmin-Cervelo, snagging autographs as the riders...

DATE: Aug. 25, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez, Durango stir up politics

Just 45 miles apart, Durango and Cortez might as well be on opposite shores of an ocean in the eyes of some residents of those cities.Cortez has the ancient silence of Mesa Verde. Durango has the...

DATE: Aug. 23, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Snafu sinks parks budget

ALAMOSA — An important bank account for the new Colorado Parks and Wildlife division will become increasingly drained over the next several years, even after officials froze all capital projects...

DATE: Aug. 20, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Judge favors Mancos schools

DENVER — A federal judge has ruled against a former Mancos principal who sued the school district for not rehiring her.Laura Harper sued after the school board approved rehiring her as the...

DATE: Aug. 18, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

GOP can see lessons in 2010 election fiascos

DENVER — A year ago, Dan Maes stood on the rooftop deck of a downtown Denver bar, surrounded by fans and TV cameras, as the star of the most improbable Cinderella story in modern Colorado...

DATE: Aug. 13, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez teachers testify about school funding

DENVER — Cortez Middle School teacher Justine Bayles was helping a colleague erase dirty words out of social studies textbooks when the page flopped open to a picture of the Twin Towers, still...

DATE: Aug. 13, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

New laws affect ballot, casinos

DENVER — Citizen campaigns for ballot questions will face stricter scrutiny starting this week.The official proponents of ballot campaigns will have to publicly disclose how much money they spent...

DATE: Aug. 11, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Residents can comment on districts

Southwest Colorado voters will get their only chance to sound off on the shape of their state legislative districts Friday evening when the Colorado Reapportionment Commission visits Durango for a...

DATE: Aug. 11, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Forecasters try to weather economy

BOULDER — On a day that economic storms buffeted the country, weather forecasters gathered to bring attention to the effect of actual storms on the economy.The American Meteorological Society’s...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

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