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(Paul Preston):" Well, we’re actually forming a new state from California. We’re in the process of forming a new state from a preexisting state and following the constitution. Our constitution and Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights provides for us to form a new state when the citizens feel compelled to......."

There's a big race right now to become the 51st state. Forget traditional contenders like Puerto Rico. In several existing states, residents of less populous areas are hoping to create new states of their own. Citizens in 11 northeastern Colorado counties are among them. They'll vote on Nov. 5 whether to break off and form their own state. Many are unhappy about liberal state legislation they believe reflects the values of the Denver-Boulder corridor, but not their part of the world. "We're rarely listened to when it comes to legislation," says Butch White, the mayor of Ault. "I'm sure the...

AKRON, Colo. (CBS4) – There’s a growing effort to create a 51st state out of parts of northeast Colorado. Ten counties, including Weld and Morgan, started talking about seceding last month. Now some people Lincoln and Cheyenne counties say they want to join a new state they’d call “North Colorado.” Organizers of the secession effort say their interests are not being represented at the state Capitol. Representatives from the 10 counties held a meeting on Monday in the town of Akron in Weld County to begin mapping the boundaries for the new state they say will represent the interests of...

“Social justice” activists attended the annual Israeli Business Conference to proclaim “a new State of Israel -- The Social Justice state.” The proclamation surprised the prestigious annual Israeli Business Conference, which was attended by senior political and business leaders, including Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Activists in Israel this past summer staged tent city protests in Tel Aviv and other urban centers. Starting out as the ”cottage cheese boycott” movement to bring down the price of the dairy prices, the movement spread to an all-encompassing demonstration against nearly every imaginable worry – from the...

Should the District of Columbia have a voting Representative in Congress, as if it was a state? Yes No