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Governor Jared Polis toured the historic Fox West Theatre in Trinidad on Friday and announced the award of a $3.45 million grant to help the ongoing restoration project.

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In 2009 it was 14%. in august, it was 9%. >> were the comeback state. its a great message. i appreciate that. in fact, not only that, our personal income climbed up five states in the ranking in the last two or three years. and its because weve really created a climate of success and our countries are doing well. >> how are you getting jobs to relocate to michigan? >> you want to focus on growing jobs in michigan. you want to do more gardening than hunting. its really encouraging entrepreneurshi...

Detroit will continue to help the comeback of michigan. were the comeback state. lets get detroit onboard and go. >> if you can get the financial situation stabilized people will come back to detroit and there is a lot to offer in that city. >> yes. >> thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you very much, wolf. >> more than 2,000 undocumented immigrants released from custody, up next why officials say it had to happen. awwwww... arigato! we are outta here! party...... finding you the perfect p...

Jump-start this economy thats lagged at 18.9% unemployment rate? its too much to bear for workers there. >> governor snyder has been consistent from the beginning that it wasnt on his agenda yet, but hes been successful at leading us through dramatic changes in michigan. we are the comeback state, but now with the data that weve received from the blessings of having to work through proposal two, its clear that they want us to become a labor freedom right to work state. >> that surprised me, that...

Jump-start this economy thats lagged at 18.9% unemployment rate? its too much to bear for workers there. >> governor snyder has been consistent from the beginning that it wasnt on his agenda yet, but hes been successful at leading us through dramatic changes in michigan. we are the comeback state, but now with the data that weve received from the blessings of having to work through proposal two, its clear that they want us to become a labor freedom right to work state. >> that surprised me, that...

Applies in michigan to about 17.5% of our workforce. thats significant but most people dont have it as an issue. if you look where michigan was at, we were at the bottom for an entire decade. we are at the comeback state because we have done so many things, paying down our debt, and we are the sixth fastest growing state in the nation compared to 50th in prior years. this is a device i have issue after the election. we had a ballot proposal that brought up a lot of labor issues. this is one that...

Applies in michigan to about 17.5% of our workforce. thats significant but most people dont have it as an issue. if you look where michigan was at, we were at the bottom for an entire decade. we are at the comeback state because we have done so many things, paying down our debt, and we are the sixth fastest growing state in the nation compared to 50th in prior years. this is a device i have issue after the election. we had a ballot proposal that brought up a lot of labor issues. this is one that...

The course of four years. fixed that $2 billion, raised an additional $2 billion in revenue that we were able to put in the bank. and we did it without raising taxes and relying on the federal government necessarily to get it done. >> i love you, but youre now saying its true for other guys but in my state we did deserve the credit. >> no, what im saying is im saying thats true for scott as well. that he has the opportunity to turn his state around and he has done that. you talk about the polls,...

Well. that he has the opportunity to turn his state around and he has done that. you talk about the polls, the people in the polls will remember that scott walker was not very popular in the state of wisconsin and look what happened a couple weeks ago. >> let me give you other examples. rick scotts not alone in this. republican governors all over the country are bringing attention to their states economic process. john kasich publicly praised his states new jobs and falling unemployment rate. ri...