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CSU alum becomes Voice of the Rockies
Reed Saunders' voice booms over Coors Field
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It's still hard for Reed Saunders to believe. Of 261 applicants, the 2003 CSU graduate was picked to be the new "Voice of the Rockies."
"I was a giggly mess," Saunders said of the moment he learned he had been chosen.
But before he landed his new Colorado Rockies job with radio station KOA (850 AM), he scraped and clawed for work.
Saunders, 25, wanted to be a sports columnist and tried that out while working for The Collegian. He also interned with the athletics media relations at CSU.
Affirmative action ban could be on Colorado ballot next year
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DENVER - Colorado could be among the next wave of states where voters are asked to stop government affirmative action programs, including racial preferences in college admissions. Backed by a California businessman who supported a similar proposal that succeeded in Michigan, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative announced plans Monday to put the measure on the 2008 ballot.
Former Alaska lawmaker found alive
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former Alaska lawmaker who went missing overnight after a family boating trip was found alive on a tiny island late Monday morning. Former state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch was severely hypothermic but conscious when he was found at 11:15 a.
In Denver, Yeltsin enjoyed a shining moment at G-8 summit
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DENVER - Boris Yeltsin's appearance at a Denver summit of the world's most powerful industrial nations was hailed as a triumph for his efforts to transform the Russian Federation into an industrial democracy - and win acceptance into an elite group of rich nations that had kept the former communist state at a distance.
Gonzales says he intends to remain as attorney general; Bush voices support
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WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales, with a fresh vote of confidence from President Bush, vowed Monday to remain as attorney general despite lingering differences with senators over the firing of federal prosecutors. Appearing at a news conference on identity theft, Gonzales said he will remain "as long as I can continue to serve effectively.
Gates makes missile defense pitch to Russians, comes up empty-handed
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MOSCOW - Defense Secretary Robert Gates failed Monday to coax Russia from its opposition to U.S. missile defense bases in Europe, but he suggested Moscow may be more flexible than it seems. Gates, on his first visit to the Russian capital since he came here as CIA director in 1992, made the opening bid in a series of high-level Bush administration diplomatic moves aimed at softening Russia's view on missile defense.
ASCSU apologizes for Common loudness
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Residents filed more than 100 noise complaints about last week's Common concert at CSU, prompting a letter of apology to the mayor and those who complained. "It was very positive and very encouraging that they (ASCSU) apologized," said Darin Atteberry, city manager.
Plan to make it harder to change constitution sent to Senate
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DENVER - The House approved and sent to the Senate on Monday a plan that would ask voters to make it harder to change the state constitution by popular vote. Rep. Al White, R-Winter Park, said his measure (House Concurrent Resolution 1001) would require a three-fifths vote by the voters to change the constitution and a simple majority to change laws.
Utility breaks ground on sprawling new solar plant in Colorado
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HOOPER, Colo. (AP) - With the sun glinting off the shovels, Xcel Energy broke ground Monday on a $60 million solar power plant designed to supply enough electricity to power 1,500 homes. The 8-megawatt photovoltaic plant in the San Luis Valley about 130 miles south of Denver will be the largest solar plant for civilian use in the country, backers said.
Grand Junction, Colo., soldier killed in Iraq
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GRAND JUNCTION - Military officials on Monday confirmed the death of a soldier who dropped out of high school to care for his ill mother full-time and joined the Army after she died. Cpl. Wade J. Oglesby, 27, was one of two soldiers killed Wednesday in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle, the Defense Department said.
U.S. officials reconsider walling off Sunni neighborhood; bombings kill 48 across Iraq
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BAGHDAD - U.S. officials signaled Monday that they might reconsider putting a three-mile concrete barrier around a Sunni Arab neighborhood in Baghdad after Iraq's struggling prime minister came under pressure from Sunnis and ordered the project halted. With the latest snag in U.
Boris Yeltsin, former president who escorted Russia to democracy's door, dead at 76
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MOSCOW - Former President Boris Yeltsin, who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally opposition against a hard-line coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy, died Monday at age 76. The first freely elected leader of Russia, Yeltsin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the monolithic Communist system.
