Jun 05

2009

Governor Signs Colorado Ski License Plate Bill

Filed Under (Travel Babel) by Admin on 05-06-2009


Coloradans will drive to support and promote skiing and snowboarding

I posted previously about the creation of a snowsports-theme Colorado license plate. My first post was about the petition promoted by Colorado Ski Country USA and the second was about the passage of Senate Bill 161, creating the country’s first plate with ski and snowboard figures on it. Earlier this week, Governor Bill Ritter signed the bill against the snow-covered slopes of Arapahoe Basin, the only Colorado ski area that has not yet lowered the curtain on the 2008-09 season. There is was in a gubernatorial suitcoat, surrounded by people whose attired was more “Denver” than “ski area.”

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Jun 05

2009

Lincoln slept here, well maybe

Filed Under (World Travel) by Admin on 05-06-2009

The so-called Lincoln bed on display at a new Sen. John Heinz History Center exhibit on the former president.

PITTSBURGH The bed where President Lincoln rested his head in the Monongahela House hotel was surely comfortable, but whether or not it survived has become an awkward story in Pittsburgh.

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