Word is out that Central High School’s Senior Student Senate has voted to change the school’s annual baccalaureate from a religious event featuring a blessing by a pastor to a secular event featuring 3-5 minute speeches by students about what…
Category: Activism
Tax Day March Planned in Grand Junction to Push Trump to Reveal his Tax Returns
Activists are organizing a local tax day march on Saturday, April 15 in solidarity with a national effort to show President Donald Trump that Americans very much want him to reveal his tax returns. The Trump administration poses unprecedented economic conflicts of interest…
Delta County “Sex Ed” Teacher Shelly Donahue Banned from Oklahoma School District
A school district in Tulsa County, Oklahoma has banned sexual abstinence speaker Shelly Donahue from returning after students complained that her comments during a “sex ed” presentation were demeaning to girls and insulting to children of broken families. The news of…
Daily Sentinel Threatens CO Sen. Ray Scott with Defamation Lawsuit
Jay Seaton, publisher of the Grand Junction, Colorado Daily Sentinel, publicly threatened Colorado State Senator Ray Scott with a defamation lawsuit in his editorial column Sunday, February 12, after Scott, in a tweet, charged the Sentinel with publishing “fake news.”
Massive Anti-Trump March in Grand Junction One Day After Inauguration
If yesterday’s massive Women’s March to protest Donald Trump in Grand Junction proves anything, it’s that western Colorado is clearly not a politically monolithic area for conservatives any more. Grand Junction saw the largest crowd ever in its local history turn…