The nation's newest state, if rural Colorado residents had their way, would be about the size of Vermont but with the population of a small town spread across miles of farmland. There wouldn't be civil unions for gay couples, new renewable energy standards, or limits on ammunition magazines.After all, those were some of the reasons five counties on the state's Eastern Plains voted on Election Day to approve the creation of a 51st state in the [...]
New Colorado? Rural Voters Approve Secession Idea
IVAN MORENO, Associated Press, Journal Star
Mon, 11/11/2013 - 10:28am
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