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Committee plans to make Fort Collins more bicycle-friendly
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The City of Fort Collins Bicycle Advisory Committee aims tonight to raise the city from its current gold status as a bike-friendly community to platinum, as awarded by the League of American Bicyclists. The committee, formed in response to the 2008 Bike Plan adopted by City Council, will establish a plan to make the Fort Collins community more cyclist-friendly and increase bike safety and education.
U.S.-Iraqi pact poses test for Iraq's security forces
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BAGHDAD - The U.S.-Iraqi security pact now before parliament calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq's cities by June 30 in recognition of an improved security climate, but the deadline poses a key test for Iraqi forces in places like Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul where attacks still occur daily.
Ritter, Frank in Japan to establish a new environmental medicine center
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In alignment with Gov. Bill Ritter's trade mission, Interim CSU President Tony Frank and a team of CSU deans traveled to Asia to sign an agreement with two Japanese institutes Tuesday that will allow CSU students and researchers further opportunity to research abroad.
City Council fosters energy discussion
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Fort Collins politicians, students and community members crowded around informative posters and displays in the Lincoln Center in Old Town Monday, giving a venue for community input to the Fort Collins City Council on the 2008 Draft Utilities Energy Policy.
Residents return to devastated LA mobile home park
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LOS ANGELES - Residents of a once neatly kept mobile home park returned Monday to see for themselves how a wildfire turned it into a desolate landscape of charred metal and blackened sticks. One black van was used to ferry residents of the 484 homes destroyed by Saturday's inferno.
Students discuss the effects of political bias in the classrom
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Following the completion of the polarizing election season, the nonpartisan CSU Center for Public Deliberation held a forum Monday night to encourage public deliberation on issues affecting the Fort Collins community, including a student discussion on the role of political opinions in the classroom.
Auto-aid prospects dim in partisan stalemate
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WASHINGTON - Prospects dimmed Monday for enactment of a $25 billion bailout for the faltering auto industry before year's end, as congressional Democrats and the Bush administration seemed headed for a stalemate. Help for Detroit's Big Three, which have been battered by the economic meltdown that has choked their sales and frozen their credit, is falling victim to a partisan fight over where the money should come from.
Allard to consider tentative chancellor position
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Former Sen. Wayne Allard will consider taking the post of CSU chancellor should the CSU System Board of Governors decide to split the president and chancellor roles. Having just stepped down after 12 years in the U.S. Senate, Allard has been considering his next career step, and supporters such as State Rep.
Big Three automakers beg for $25 billion lifeline
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Detroit's Big Three automakers pleaded with Congress on Tuesday for a $25 billion lifeline to save their once-proud companies from collapse, warning of broader peril for the national economy as well. "Our industry ... needs a bridge to span the financial chasm that has opened up before us," General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee in prepared testimony.
Colorado car dealers slashing jobs amid slump
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DENVER (AP) _ Colorado car dealers say they're laying off workers because sales are plummeting, and they want Congress to step in to keep U.S. automakers afloat. New-car sales in the state are expected to drop between 20 percent and 25 percent this year, said Tim Jackson of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association.
