Article: Local Leaders Rally in Lamar, Colo., to Tout Trade Route.

By Matt Nesland, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 12--LAMAR, Colo.--Southeastern Colorado political and community leaders rallied here in favor of a Ports-to-Plains route along U.S. 287.

"We want the world to know that we are alive out here," said Jan Anderson, director of Southeast Colorado Economic Development Inc.

The Ports-to-Plains project first was identified by Congress in 1998 as a way to transport goods from Mexico to Canada more efficiently, explained Joe Kiely, Limon city administrator.

A debate currently exists in Colorado whether to use Interstate 25 as the main route through the ...

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