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…
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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…
Ray Scott deceives constituents by strategically omitting key info from social media post
Colorado State Senator Ray Scott tried to deceive his constituents in a recent Facebook post. In the post, Scott pointed to a recent Denver Post article about how Colorado’s marijuana tax revenues are being used, and used the benefit of a…
Atheist billboard graces entrance to Grand Junction for Christmas
The non-profit group Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF) has a digital billboard up on I-70 Business Loop in front of Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A for Christmas that says “Make Christmas great again. Skip church!” The sign is a reminder that…
Leon’s Mexican restaurant robbed
Leon’s Mexican Restaurant at 507 30 Rd. at I-70 Business Loop was robbed and vandalized sometime between closing last Wednesday night, 12/19, and Thursday morning, 12/20. The criminals broke into the restaurant, took money from the cash register, drank some…
How Matt Soper can solve his problem (Hint: It’s not by staying silent.)
Republican Matt Soper has been oddly silent about the legal challenge to his residency requirement to serve as District 54’s House Representative in the state legislature. Soper hasn’t responded to journalists’ questions about his residency, nor has he challenged the…
Edwards formally challenges Soper’s residency and legality of his election to HD-54 seat
Former Palisade Town Trustee Dave Edwards filed a formal petition (pdf) yesterday with Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams and the state legislature officially disputing the legality of Matt Soper holding the Colorado House District 54 seat. District 54 comprises the western…
Matt Soper’s legitimacy as Colorado House District 54 Representative is challenged
Former Palisade town trustee Dave Edwards is seeking to formally challenge the legitimacy of Matt Soper being seated as a Representative for Colorado House District 54. Palisade is in House District 54. Soper, a Republican, was elected to the HD-54…
What’s Up With That Pervasive, “Too Much Big Government” Theme?
This column was originally published August 26, 2012. It was revised on 12-30-2016 and again on 11-26-2018 to include some new graphics. It’s explains how Americans came to hate our own government, and is still as true as ever. We…
Limited time to submit complaints about Republican Matt Soper’s allegedly fraudulent address
Constituents in House District 54 have just 10 days after the election — this Friday, 11/16 — to submit complaints to the Colorado Secretary of State about whether Republican HD-54 candidate Matt Soper committed voter fraud and/or election fraud by…
The Blue-ing of the Western Slope
An online interactive map breaking down the the 2018 governor’s race in Colorado by county shows that the western slope is nowhere near as conservative as the far eastern plains of Colorado. It also shows that the western slope has far…
Hate in Grand Junction, Halloween edition
Sen. Ray Scott fails Project VoteSmart’s Political Courage Test
Project VoteSmart keeps track of incumbent legislators’ votes on issues and tries make candidates’ positions on issues easy to discern, like where they stand on healthcare, women’s rights, funding of education, how to deal with budgets, taxation, transportation and other issues.…
Hate in Grand Junction on full display today at Mesa County Deplorables rally against refugees
An article in today’s Daily Sentinel says Mesa County Deplorables will hold a rally downtown today against the people who make up the “caravan” of central American refugees headed northward on foot towards the U.S. border to escape violence in…
AnneLandmanBlog Voter Guide, 2018 Mid-term elections
This guide lists AnneLandmanBlog’s recommendations on how to vote in the 2018 Mid-term election. The conclusions were reached by researching the issues, attending public events to educate voters about the issues, assessing incumbents’ records and candidates’ backgrounds, affiliations and public…
Pickup of the “Impeachment Now” banner: History made in western Colorado with first-ever banner flight
The banner flew over Delta, Montrose and Grand Junction on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. It was crowd-funded by voters across the western slope who are deeply concerned about America’s loss of credibility, dignity and standing in the world as a…
“Impeachment Now” banner to fly over the Grand Valley Wednesday, 10/17
A wet, snowy early October changed the planned date for the western slope flyover of Mad Dog PAC’s “Impeachment Now” banner. It was originally scheduled to fly here on Saturday, 10/13 and then over Denver on 10/14, but due to…