State Rep. Jim Riesberg, D-Greeley, will announce his intent to seek re-election for the House District 50 seat.
Riesberg, who represents east Greeley, Evans and Garden City, will make the announcement at 10 a.m. at the Coronado Building, 900 9th Avenue, in Downtown Greeley. The event is open to the public.
Riesberg, who has served in house District 50 since 2004 faces term limits and will run for his fourth and final term.
He serves as the chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee, vice-chairman of the Capital Development Committee, and as a member of the House Appropriations Committee. He also serves as chairman of the Interim Palliative Care and Hospice Committee, as well as serving on the Fire and Police Pension Reform Board, the Alzheimer’s Task Force and as vice-chairman of the Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
For more information, contact Riesberg at (970) 351-6619 or e-mail him at jim.riesberg.house@state.co.us.

Greeley’s finance director may have been a candidate for the same position in Surprise, Ariz., but he won’t be leaving town anytime soon.
Reports from the Arizona Republic this week state Tim Nash, who’s been Greeley’s finance director since 1987, was one of two final candidates for the chief financial officer position with Surprise, which is northwest of Phoenix. He had been narrowed down from a pool of 60.
But Nash has already turned down the job – two weeks ago.
For more of this story, see Friday’s Tribune.

NEW YORK – Out with the old and in with the – what?
With the nation at war on two foreign fronts, the economy uncertain, terrorism a threat and environmental catastrophe on the list of possible destinies, a sense of starting fresh remains elusive for many, who wonder what sort of new legacy they can build beginning on Jan. 1, 2010.
“The meaning of the new decade is going to be diminished by the hangover of the last decade,” says Bob Batchelor, professor of mass communications at Kent State University and author of “The 2000s,” published before the decade was even done. “That makes it tough to be as optimistic as Americans usually are.”
In the spirit of fresh beginnings, people around the world planned Thursday to celebrate the transition. In New York’s Times Square, new giant digits are in place to mark the new decade, as are 3,000 pounds of confetti.
Sitting with his wife and two daughters in a Manhattan atrium as they discuss

WASHINGTON – The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA’s post in Afghanistan’s southeastern Khost Province.
CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a message to agency staff that the casualties sustained in Wednesday’s strike at Forward Operating Base Chapman were the result of a terrorist attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Initial reports indicated that eight American civilians had been killed. There was no explanation for the discrepancy in Panetta’s message, which was released by the CIA in an unusual step a day after one of the deadliest attacks on the agency in its history.
“Those who fell yesterday were far from home and close to the enemy, doing the hard work that must be done to protect our country from terrorism,” Panetta said. “We owe them our d

ASPEN – Colorado prosecutors don’t want a judge to lift a restraining order against actor Charlie Sheen, who is accused of threatening his wife with a knife.
Attorneys for both Sheen and his wife, Brooke, say they want the order dismissed so the couple can try to reconcile. The order bars him from contacting her.
Prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday opposing dismissal. Assistant District Attorney Arnold Mordkin would not say why on Thursday.
It’s not clear when a judge will rule.
Sheen was arrested in Aspen on Christmas Day on charges including felony menacing and domestic violence. Brooke Sheen told police he put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her.
He denies threatening her.
The 44-year-old actor stars in “Two and a Half Men” on CBS.