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State’s Fourth of July travel similar to last year

AAA projects that 10.48 million people in the western states, including Colorado, will travel 50 or more miles away from home for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
This is a decrease of only .8 percent from the 10.57 million who traveled in 2007.
Nationally, AAA projects 40.45 million Americans will travel during […]

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Supreme Court rules on right to bear arms

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under […]

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Outsourcing newspapers

The Orange County Register is going to outsource copy editing and some production work to India for a one-month trial period.
The Register is the flagship paper of Freedom Communications, which also owns The Gazette.
Whether The Gazette also could begin outsourcing work is unclear.
Gazette spokeswoman and Vice President of Marketing Liz Cobb […]

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