Area residents voted trespassing on the Grand Valley’s irrigation canal roads as the “Best Health Club” in the Daily Sentinel’s “Best of the West” contest in a “favorite write-in votes” section. Almost 4,000 people voted in the “Best of the…
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State Sen. Ray Scott votes with Dems, is shown on TV news with finger up his nose on Senate Floor
Video credit: KKCO 11 News, Grand Junction
Don’t be fooled. Gun massacres are about GUNS, not mental illness.
In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Republicans are claiming that the easy availability of guns in the U.S. isn’t even a factor in our national epidemic of mass shootings. Instead they point to mental illness as the…
Grand Junction’s huge anti gun-violence march and rally
Around 3,000 people attended Grand Junction, Colorado’s March for Our Lives, on Mach 24, 2018. It was one of 800 “sibling” marches happening around the country and the world at the same time as the main March for our Lives in Washington, D.C., organized by students who survived the February 14 gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The attendance at Grand Junction’s march was impressive given that this area of Colorado has long been considered a gun-friendly, conservative stronghold. That may not be the case any more, as many gun owners are joining with the students in saying there are now too many guns in too many people’s hands, and a higher priority should be put on people’s safety rather than on guns.
Such significant participation in an event like this was unthinkable as recently as just a couple of years ago.
Rep. Scott Tipton votes to let Trump’s family and senior officials benefit financially from changes to federal banking rules
Western slope Congressional Representative Scott Tipton on March 14 voted against a motion to prohibit President Trump and his family from benefitting personally from a bill currently under consideration by the federal legislature to change federal banking rules.
Get ready, Mesa County Republicans. President Trump wants to take your guns!
President Trump on Wednesday called for seizing guns belonging to people who are deemed to present a danger to others without allowing them due process first. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just…
Grand Junction City Council has an opportunity to end divisive religious invocations at public meetings. Let’s hope they do.
Grand Junction City Council plans to re-assess the issue of hosting religious invocations at public meetings at their Monday, March 5 workshop. Grand Junction made history in 2017 as the first city in Colorado host a Satanic invocation at a City Council…
Trump’s Border Wall Folly
While still promising Mexico will pay for it, President Trump is now trying to extort $25 billion from U.S. taxpayers to build a “big, beautiful” border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and he’s holding DACA recipients hostage to do…
City Council endorses protections and path to citizenship for DACA recipients. G.J. citizens react.
On January 17, 2018, the Grand Junction City Council sent an official letter (above) to Senators Cory Gardner, Michael Bennet and House Representative Scott Tipton urging the House and Senate to pass “a clean bill as soon as possible to…
Trump on immigration: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
Kick the kids out of the room. The president in on TV again, and again, it’s for a shockingly offensive comment, especially coming from an American president. The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump actually told a bipartisan group of Senators…
It doesn’t take, “like, a genius” to understand there is nothing adorable about being a “Deplorable”
Many ardent Trump supporters happily call themselves “deplorable,” making fun of a point Hillary Clinton tried to make during her 2016 campaign that many Trump supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic. Members of Trump’s “Deplorable” contingents across the…
Rep. Jared Polis to open Grand Junction office Sat., Jan. 6 at 10:00 a.m.
House Rep. Jared Polis is running for Colorado governor and will officially open his Grand Junction office this coming Saturday, January 6 at 10:00 a.m. at 421 Colorado Ave. Polis is a new-age candidate. He is an entrepreneur who started…
Trump accidentally admits Republicans deceptively sold the tax bill to the country
From the Washington Post, December 20, 2017: Trump just admitted the GOP’s tax cuts were deceptively sold By Aaron Blake December 20 President Trump was so excited about passing his first major piece of legislation Wednesday that he blurted out that the Republican Party had…
Trump endorses accused child molester Roy Moore for Senate
In a new low for the country, President Donald Trump has endorsed the denials of Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican senate candidate who has been accused of engaging in sexual misconduct with teenagers. Trump’s endorsement indicates he has elevated the strength…
What Roy Moore and Grand Junction City Council have in common
Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican senatorial candidate accused of sexual predation, brings thoughts right back here to Grand Junction, because Moore and Grand Junction have two big things in common. They are 1) the Ten Commandments, and 2) an eagerness…
Rep. Scott Tipton just voted to end many of your tax deductions
Republican western slope House Representative Scott Tipton just voted to increase the national debt by more than a trillion dollars and alter the federal tax code in ways that will likely create hardship for many of his constituents. Every Democrat…
Republicans at every level of government have blood on their hands for U.S. gun massacres
Another day, another gun massacre. Still Republican legislators don’t even lift a finger to address it. “Thoughts and prayers” is their only response, since it holds off action on the insane proliferation of guns in this country, and blocks discussion…
Read the fine print: Republican “tax reform” bill injects religious dogma into the tax code
You don’t typically think of a tax reform bill as a vehicle to push a religious agenda onto the rest of the country, but Trump’s “tax reform” bill does exactly that. Buried deep inside the Republicans’ proposed “tax reform” bill is…