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Colorado: Denver Nuggets

May 21, 2009 - 10:21 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Denver hypes hoops hopes

A Denver Nuggets banner joined The Stars and Stripes and Colorado's red, gold, blue and white billowing over the state Capitol this afternoon as Gov. Bill Ritter proclaimed May 2009 "Nuggets May-nia Month."

Emerging from the Capitol building flanked by seven go-go boot-clad Nuggets dancers, Ritter said he'd not yet been able to reach Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to make a little wager - but he's still trying.

"We're confident of a Nuggets victory," Ritter said just two hours before tip-off.

Receiving the honor for the Nuggets was team mascot Rocky, complete with party poppers that threw blue and gold confetti and streamers into the air during the press conference.

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February 5, 2009 - 02:12 am
NEWS FEED: Rocky Mountain News

Sponsor pulls school snack bill for retooling

By Lynn Bartels

The lawmaker behind a controversial school snack measure has pulled the bill while she and other lawmakers work on amending it.

Sen. Paula Sandoval, D-Denver, said the proposed amendments call for stripping the bill of its complicated nutritional requirements, but lawmakers disagree about what else should be done.

Senate Bill 46 requires schools to adopt policies regulating the sale of snack foods.

Several school officials testified against the bill when it was heard earlier in the Senate Education Committee.

They argued that it usurped local control.

Sandoval said she considers her proposal "a health issue, not an educational issue."

She said she does not believe her bill was complicated but agreed to strip the guidelines.

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