In an op-ed in today’s Daily Sentinel, the paper blames KeepNorth4Ever — the citizen group lobbying to keep “North Avenue” from becoming “University Boulevard” — for turning the issue into an “imbrolgio,” saying they failed to pay adequate attention to…
Author: Anne Landman
The dark money groups, shady astroturfers and wealthy locals backing Measure 1A, the public safety sales tax
Ballot Measure 1A will increase the sales tax in Mesa County by 0.37% to fund the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney’s office. It sounds like a good idea, but much of the money behind 1A is coming…
CBS/Washington Post: U.S. Congress complicit in advancing the U.S. opioid epidemic
A blockbuster CBS News/60 Minutes and Washington Post investigation reveals that after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) cracked down on big pharmaceutical distributors who were knowingly pumping millions of addictive opioid drugs into the black market in cities and…
CMU 20000 Steering Committee asks City Council to reconsider changing name of North Ave. to “University Blvd.”
The CMU 20000 Steering Committee has formally asked the Grand Junction City Council to reconsider it’s decision to change the name of North Avenue to “University Boulevard,” saying the matter has “become an inadvertent distraction” from the overall goals of…
Grand Junction Chamber backs scary candidates for the contested seats in School Board election
It’s no surprise that in the contested District 51 School Board races, the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce is endorsing candidates who are demonstrably the worst of the pack. That’s par for the course. What IS surprising is that you…
Republican Colorado State Senator Ray Scott can’t even fix a typo
Governor Hickenlooper called a special session in early October so legislators could fix a mistake in Senate Bill 17-267, passed last spring, that is costing public entities across the state millions of dollars in lost pot tax revenues. Legislators passed…
The Chamber’s North Ave. Name Change is One of a Long String of Losing Proposals
The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce is driving the effort to rename North Avenue to “University Boulevard.” Oh, boy. Here we go again. This proposal is just another one in the chamber’s long track record of pushing ill-fitting projects…
Cidney Fisk Sues the Delta County School District
Cidney Fisk filed a lawsuit (pdf) Monday, September 25, 2017, against the Delta County Joint School District 50J for sabotaging her grades and college scholarship opportunities because of opinions she expressed publicly while in their school system, and due to her atheistic…
Make a Difference with this Little-Known Way to Give Powerful Feedback to City Council
Are you irritated that the Grand Junction City Council voted to change the name of North Ave. to “University Boulevard” without asking people what they thought about it first? Are you tired of tourists getting killed on Horizon Drive while the…
Sen. Ray Scott Doesn’t Want to Do His Job
State Senator Ray Scott doesn’t want to be bothered with having to fix a huge mistake the Colorado legislature made in 2017 that is blocking dozens of entities from getting crucial funds they need to function.
A Solution to the Palisade Gas Station Sign Dilemma
Palisade residents are gearing up to oppose a 60-foot tall, lit gas station sign that Golden Gate Petroleum, the owners of a proposed 11-pump gas station and convenience store to be built at the Exit 42 offramp in Palisade. Current town code…
Businesses beg city to fix Horizon Drive Deathtrap; City claims “Sorry, no funds”
The headline article in today’s Daily Sentinel, “No quick fix on Horizon,” tells how for years businesses along Horizon Drive have been begging the City of Grand Junction to make the street safer for pedestrians. Three pedestrians, all tourists, have…
CMU Staff and Students Unhappy with School’s Odd, Oppressive Administrative Structure
Colorado Mesa University staff members are expressing frustration with the school’s unusual, flat administrative structure, which seems strategically designed to eliminate staff input into school operations, and prevent empowerment of the staff on campus. CMU President Tim Foster over the…
Hyper-conservative “ReaganGirl” Marjorie Haun backs tax increase
The worm turns. However uncharacteristic, prominent local conservative Marjorie Haun, who bills herself as “ReaganGirl,” has found a tax she likes, and she’s urging others to like it, too — and vote for it. Haun backs a proposed sales tax…
More Social Media Insight Into CO State Senator Ray Scott’s Attitude Toward Constituents
Mesa County resident Claudette Konola ran against Ray Scott for the State Senate District 7 seat in 2014, to keep him from running unopposed. We’ve already seen some of Scott’s contemptuous Facebook and email responses to citizens who disagree with his…
Mesa County citizens submit formal ethics complaint against State Sen. Ray Scott
Three Grand Junction residents submitted a formal ethics complaint (pdf) to the state legislature August 15 about Colorado State Senator Ray Scott (R-District 7) for blocking them from his official social media accounts after they criticized his views.
Local Public Discussion Tonight about Charlottesville, Racism and the Difficulties Local Minorities Face, Hosted by Black Lives Matter GJ
Are you disgusted and distressed with Donald Trump putting neo-Nazi hate groups on the same moral footing as the people opposing them? Disgusted with the outright bigotry being manifested in our country? Many local residents are. As more fliers promoting the…
Donald Trump’s Tweet from Early This Morning (which he quickly deleted)
Early this morning, just days after a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman, President Trump retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter. The image was originally posted…