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…
Category: politics
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
Following are AnneLandmanBlog’s recommendations on how to vote in the 2019 City of Grand Junction April 2, 2019 Regular Municipal Election. Conclusions about city council candidates were reached by listening to interviews, knowing them personally or knowing something about them…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…