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…
Author: Anne Landman
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…
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. Conclusions about city council candidates were reached…
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…
CMU hosts climate change denier this evening
This article is reprinted in with permission from the author, Erik Maulbetsch, of the ColoradoTimesRecorder.com. Colorado Mesa University is hosting climate change denier Steve Goreham this evening, for a speech titled “Energy, Climate Change & Public Policy.” Mesa County Commissioner Rose Pugliese…
City Council may be staring down the barrel of another ACLU lawsuit over criminalizing homelessness
On the same night that Grand Junction City Council will consider adopting an inclusiveness proclamation that says the City “desires to ensure that the human rights of all citizens are protected,” council will also vote on whether to amend city…
Court rules Fort Collins ordinance banning topless women violates the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled February 15, 2019 that a Fort Collins, Colorado city ordinance prohibiting women from baring their breasts in public and punishes them for doing so while putting no similar restrictions on men violates…
Grand Junction wants to increase its sales tax, but it should stop wasting existing funds and tap obvious sources of new revenue first
As a liberal progressive voter, I believe it is our patriotic duty to pay taxes for public amenities that make our quality of life great, like public safety. This coming April, though, Grand Junction City Council will ask voters to…
Grand Junction may soon lose its only secular hospital
A previous blog discussed why Mesa County residents should be glad to have an alternative to a Catholic hospital in the valley and why it is so important to people’s health to have a secular hospital option available for medical care. But our…
Lessons from the Shutdown
Donald Trump just put America through the longest federal government shutdown in history, single-handedly keeping over 800,000 federal workers from being paid for over a month, hobbling law enforcement agencies and airport security, blocking immigration proceedings, causing delays in airline…
Do you recognize this guy? Your anonymous tip could be worth money.
Reposting from Mesa County CrimeStoppers Crime of the Week, 1/24/19 The Grand Junction Police Department needs your help to identify a male suspect that is wanted for harassment. On Wednesday, January 2nd , an unknown male placed a malicious classified…
Annual Grand Junction Women’s March draws huge crowds again
The third annual Women’s March in Grand Junction on Saturday, January 19th, drew an enthusiastic crowd of about 2,000 liberal and progressive western slope residents who came out to support women’s rights, equality for women and gay, lesbian and transgender…
Rep. Scott Tipton votes to continue government shutdown, keep federal workers unpaid
The western slope’s House representative in Washington, D.C., Scott Tipton, voted AGAINST a bill on Jan. 6 to end President Trump’s shutdown for most federal agencies. The bill, HR 265, passed the House by a wide margin — 243 to…
Ridgway passes single-use plastic bag ban
On December 12 the Ridgway Town Council passed an ordinance (pdf) banning single-use plastic bags and urging residents to curtail their use of other single-use plastics like straws, single-use food take-out containers, coffee stirrers, soda bottles, disposable water bottles, eating utensils and…
New form of harassment: weaponization of classified ads
Utilizing a novel form of harassment, someone put a malicious classified ad in the January 3 edition of The Nickel Classified Ads saying our house was for sale “by owner” at a lowball price, and that there will be an open…