If you’ve ever wanted to serve on Grand Junction City Council but didn’t want to have to endure a campaign and election to do it, now is your chance. City Councilor Duncan McArthur is stepping down from his seat on…
Author: Anne Landman
Oklahoma is just the beginning of what life will be like under Republican rule
Oklahoma Republicans just passed a mind-blowingly strict law that makes abortion illegal in virtually every circumstance, effectively terminating the right of women in the state to control their own bodies and reproductive fate. Oklahoma wasn’t alone in this, either. Other…
ACLU Sues CO State Senator Ray Scott for Blocking Constituent on Social Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2019 MEDIA CONTACT: Vanessa Michel, Director of Communications Office: 720-402-3112, Mobile: 917-399-0733 Deanna Hirsch, Media Strategist Office: 720-402-3122, Mobile: 720-971-2393 ACLU Sues Colorado State Senator for Blocking Constituent on Social Media DENVER –…
Sen. Ray Scott sponsors bill to eliminate price break for low-income energy consumers
Last week State Senator Ray Scott embarrassed Mesa County residents and made a fool of himself by actually saying out loud on the Senate floor that climate change has led to “massive improvements” in our climate. Now Scott is co-sponsoring…
Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers’ spring message
Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF) has a message for Grand Valley residents this spring: Atheism is “a personal relationship with reality.” WCAF is the area’s longest-serving secular group, and their billboard is to help encourage people come to logical…
Free digital literacy resources available from Southern Poverty Law Center
Are you a teacher looking for ways to teach kids how to tell the difference between real and “fake” news, how to determine whether an online source is legitimate, reliable and fair, and how to engage in social media discussions…
Colorado bill would prohibit teaching religious doctrine in public school sex ed curriculum
Delta County School District, are you listening? Colorado State Senator Don Coram, a Republican who represents Montrose and Ouray counties, is a sponsor of HB19-1032, “Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education,” a bill to prohibit sex ed instruction in K-12 public schools…
Local students win essay contest awards of $500 and $250
An awards ceremony will be held tomorrow, Sunday, March 31 at 1:15 p.m. in the Monument Room of the downtown Mesa County Public Library to announce the winners of Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers‘ 2018 Student Essay Contest. The contest,…
One good thing Trump has done: Banning bump stocks
Watch out, local gun nuts. President Donald Trump is coming for your guns. Last December, President Trump issued an executive order banning bump stocks (pdf), devices that use the recoil energy generated from each shot of a semi-automatic rifle to increase…
AnneLandmanBlog Voter Guide: Grand Junction City Election 2019
Wondering how to vote in the City of Grand Junction 2019 election? Following are AnneLandmanBlog’s recommendations for how to vote in the 2019 City of Grand Junction April 2, 2019 Regular Municipal Election. I reached my conclusions about which city…
Mail order abortion pills now available in the U.S.
Need a safe abortion even though it’s hard to get one in or around Grand Junction? Now there’s an answer, if you’re healthy and less than 9 weeks pregnant. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice announced that mail order abortion…
Gun laws WORK
On April 28, 1996, a crazed gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle killed 35 people and injured 18 more when he went on a shooting spree at a historic and tourist site in Port Arthur, Tasmania in Australia’s worst gun…
Come on, G.J.: It’s time to charge a fee on single-use plastic grocery bags
A necropsy done on a beached juvenile whale last Friday in the Philippines revealed it had nothing but 88 pounds of plastic in its digestive tract and likely suffered for up to a year with pain from bowel obstruction before…
Lessons from past G.J. City Council elections
Were you around for the 2013 City of Grand Junction election? If not, then you really missed a doozy. That was a year in which Grand Junction residents learned some big, important lessons about city council elections. Here is one…
Burkey family doesn’t want Burkey Park sold off or turned commercial
Our Family has had many long conversations with Aunt Mildred and Uncle Lew Burkey about the Land that was donated for a park! They donated that land in good faith that it would be used as a park and in…
Sen. Ray Scott absent for full Senate vote on oil and gas bill, SB 19-181
Mesa County’s State Senator Ray Scott didn’t even bother to show up for the full Senate vote today on SB19-181, the oil and gas overhaul bill that will change the mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission from fostering…
Sign the letter: Prioritize people’s health and safety above unfettered drilling by supporting SB 19-181.
In a reaction to a letter the Mesa County Commissioners sent to the state legislature opposing SB19-181(pdf), Mesa County residents can now easily add their names to a letter that urges state legislators to PASS Senate Bill 19-181, a landmark bill…
Community Hospital to stay secular, independent
Community Hospital issued a press release today announcing it has ended discussions to merge with Centura Health, a religious hospital management company. Community Hospital’s board of trustees has decided to stay secular and independent for now. Here is the hospital’s…