Anyone who has pointed out bigotry, unequal treatment, constitutional or civil rights violations on the western slope has heard the phrase over and over: “If you don’t like what’s going on here, you can leave.” That is what many western…
Author: Anne Landman
Grand jury report details sexual abuse by over 300 priests in PA Catholic Church alone
It’s an unfathomably bad day for religion, but a better day to be an atheist, if you already are one. If you’re not already, the news coming out about the Catholic church (again) this week may be enough to flip…
Senator Ray Scott’s absurd efforts to block progress in the energy industry
State Senator Ray Scott (R-Mesa County) isn’t just your average fossil fuel cheerleader. He goes far beyond defending the oil and gas industry by working to hobble and block advancements in clean, renewable energy, including solar energy, electric cars and even by…
Club 20 screams like a spoiled toddler while Polis attends events that are free and open to everyone
At the end of July, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis announced he was going to have to miss Club 20’s September 8 candidate debate. In response Club 20 took on the persona of a spoiled, whiny toddler, quickly issuing a nasty…
Election hacking? No biggie. Sen. Cory Gardner votes against funding election security
Russia’s campaign to influence U.S. elections and help Donald Trump get elected must not be any big deal to Colorado’s Republican Senator Cory Gardner, who joined Senate Republicans in blocking an attempt by Democrats to include $250 million in the…
Documenting hate in Grand Junction
Here are additional recently-spotted signs that bring the hate and racism lurking in Grand Junction right out into the open: A “Haji” is a slur for a Muslim, specifically one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The “ZF” stands…
Billboard raises awareness of Republicans’ dangerous dalliance with Putin
A billboard on I-70 B takes aim at the Republican Party (also known as the “Grand Old Party” or GOP) which is quickly becoming “the party of Trump.” The billboard is in front of Rimrock Marketplace on I-70 B and…
Grand Valley Business Times repels Democratic business owners
The Grand Valley Business Times (GVBT) has long been a source of business news in Mesa County, usually focusing on helpful items like what new businesses are moving in, the newest soups at Zoup, and which authors will be appearing…
More case for gun reform, and fast: Firearms cause massive blaze in Basalt
As if firearm massacres occurring regularly throughout the U.S. isn’t enough of a red flag that we need enact gun reform and fast, investigators have found that the massive wildland fire currently raging in Basalt was caused by the illegal…
Western Slope pastor and Mesa County “Patriots” display stunning callousness towards refugees, children
Amid the massive “Keep Families Together” protests in over 750 cities across the country including in Grand Junction last weekend against the Trump administration’s harsh “zero tolerance” immigration policy that separated thousands of refugee children from their parents, some Mesa…
Republicans urge people to abandon their First Amendment right to petition
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits government from “abridging the right of the people … to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” but this isn’t stopping the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce and area oil and gas apologist Keira Bresnahan from trying…
Ray Scott relying on huge amounts of campaign financing from outside Mesa County
A new campaign mailer arriving in people’s mailboxes takes digs at SD-7 candidate Dan Thurlow in an effort to boost Colorado Senator Ray Scott (R-Mesa County) in the primary election this month. The pro-Scott mailer was funded solely by a…
Wondering who to vote for for Mesa County Clerk and Recorder? This one’s EASY.
Are you voting a Republican primary ballot and trying to figure out who to vote for for Mesa County Clerk and Recorder? The race is between two candidates: Tina Peters and Bobbie Gross. Here is a brief rundown on both…
State Senator Ray Scott of Mesa County caught double-dipping
A Daily Sentinel article from May 24 details how Republican State Senator Ray Scott double-billed his legislative expense account and his campaign account for over $1,000 in Uber rides, and didn’t correct it until the Sentinel exposed it and questioned him…
Sen. Ray Scott supports big-government interference in the construction industry
An election is coming up this month, and supporters of incumbent Senator Ray Scott (R, Dist-7 – Mesa County) need to know who they’re voting for. Scott supports big nanny-state government interference in the construction industry, according to a bill…
It’s time to stop advertising guns.
It’s time for our local paper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, and other publications to stop advertising guns. This is the rock-bottom minimum that can be done to end the glorification of guns and senseless proliferation of gun violence in society.…
Anti-Ray Scott billboard campaign starts May 11
Mesa County residents who are fed up with State Senator Ray Scott are running a campaign urging people not to re-elect him in 2018. Constituents say they’re fed up with Scott’s narrow-minded fossil fuel boosterism, ignorance of climate science, sub-par…
The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce takes off it’s fig leaf
If there is a shred of doubt left that the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce exists only to promote it’s own political ideology, it dispelled that notion today with an ad in the Daily Sentinel endorsing the Grand Valley Drainage…