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GA S -P I P E LINE SA FE TY IN COLO R AD O

Digging deep into pockets Bipartisan proposal

would fine excavators
SOMETHING’S JUST NOT WHITE who fail to call 811.
By Christopher N. Osher
The Denver Post

Responding to growing con-

cerns over gas-pipeline safety, a
bipartisan group of legislators is
proposing a plan to create a new
state commission to investigate
and fine those responsible for
damages to lines due to digging.
The proposal, which has the
backing of Republican state Sen.
Ray Scott of Grand Junction and
Democratic state Sen. Kerry Don-
ovan of Vail, would impose fines of
up to $75,000 for violations of the
state’s 811 call system. That system
requires excavators to call 811 be-
fore they dig. Those calls generate
alerts to owners of pipelines who
must then identify for the excava-
tor the location of piping and oth-
er underground infrastructure.
Industry officials, particularly
those tied to telecom companies,
beat back an earlier version of the
plan that would have placed en-
forcement under the state’s Public
Utilities Commission.
LITTLETON: A man walks by the lake at Clement Park on Friday, when the temperature topped out at 57 degrees. Snow has
“The stakeholder discussion we
been scarce in Denver, and none is in the seven-day forecast. The city received all of its 2.8 inches this season from an Oct. 9 got wasn’t just no. It was hell no,”
storm, according to the National Weather Service. Denver got trace amounts Nov. 21 and Thursday. RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post said J.D. Maniscalco, chief execu-
tive of the 811 call program in Col-
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Blood test
may predict if
breast cancer
will recur
CORPUS CHRISTI: Ben Platt uses a surfboard to sled down a hill JACKSON, MISS.: A sign warns drivers on Interstate 55 of slick
Friday in the Texas city. San Antonio and Houston also got conditions Friday, when the city got 5.1 inches of snow, its By Marilyn Marchione
The Associated Press
snow. Courtney Sacco, Corpus Christi Caller-Times sixth-heaviest snowfall ever. Rogelio V. Solis, The Associated Press
A blood test five years after
breast cancer treatment helped
identify some women who were
more likely to relapse, long before
W H AT I F ROY MOORE WINS IN ALABAMA? COLORADO SIGNS a lump or other signs appeared, a

CATCHER IANNETTA preliminary study found.

Gardner’s urge to expel him Chris Iannetta will be back in purple

pinstripes next season. The Rockies
It was the largest experiment so
far to use these tests, called liquid
biopsies, for breast cancer. Re-

has little support from GOP signed the free-agent veteran catcher
to a two-year contract worth $8.5
sults suggest they someday may
help reveal which women need
longer preventive therapy and
By Mark K. Matthews The Denver Post of action, seven GOP lawmakers said. million. Jonathan Lucroy, who which ones can be spared it.
“There has been no discussion in cau- thrived for the Rockies last season, “It could be providing an early
WASHINGTON »U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of cus,” said U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., remains a free agent. It seems unlikely warning sign” for some women
Colorado made national news three weeks when asked whether the process of expel- Colorado will continue its pursuit of that cancer is returning, said Dr.
ago when he said fellow Republican Roy ling Moore had been raised in party meet- Lucroy. »1B Joseph Sparano of Montefiore
Moore should be expelled from the Senate ings. “Not about that aspect. Not in a wide Einstein Center for Cancer Care
if the former Alabama judge wins his elec- circle of people, no.” Hanukkah. From high art to in New York.
tion Tuesday. Six others — U.S. Sens. John Cornyn, Jeff Disneyesque, menorahs come in all On the other hand, “if you had a
But neither Gardner nor anyone else in Flake, John Kennedy, Rob Portman, Richard negative test, there was a 98 per-
shapes and sizes. Hanukkah begins
the Senate Republican caucus is doing cent chance you would not have a
Tuesday evening. »1C
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