Grand Junction has been spared a potentially embarrassing and costly problem. A show by white supremacist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos scheduled for April 14th at an undisclosed location in Grand Junction has been cancelled. The website for the event, “A Night…
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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.
Disgraced white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos plans talk in Grand Junction
People are hyperventilating over a scheduled appearance in Grand Junction by white supremacist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at 7:00 p.m. on April 14th at a currently undisclosed location. Some are planning protests, but the best thing to do might be to just…
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…
Trump-linked hate graffiti found at Horizon Drive Safeway
An employee at the Horizon Drive Safeway discovered hateful anti-gay graffiti scrawled in the store’s restroom tonight and posted photos of it on social media. The employee discovered the graffiti while changing out of work clothes in the restroom. One…
Trump babbles incoherently while delivering a speech in South Korea, Nov. 7, 2017
Watch for yourself!
AZ Senator Jeff Flake’s bombshell speech about Republicans’ “complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs” with Trump as U.S. President
Arizona’s Republican Senator Jeff Flake made a hair-raising speech on the Senate floor today, announcing he will not run for re-election and declaring he “will no longer be complicit or silent” in the face of President Trump’s “reckless, outrageous and…
Republican Colorado State Senator Ray Scott can’t even fix a typo
Governor Hickenlooper called a special session in early October so legislators could fix a mistake in Senate Bill 17-267, passed last spring, that is costing public entities across the state millions of dollars in lost pot tax revenues. Legislators passed…
The Chamber’s North Ave. Name Change is One of a Long String of Losing Proposals
The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce is driving the effort to rename North Avenue to “University Boulevard.” Oh, boy. Here we go again. This proposal is just another one in the chamber’s long track record of pushing ill-fitting projects…
Hyper-conservative “ReaganGirl” Marjorie Haun backs tax increase
The worm turns. However uncharacteristic, prominent local conservative Marjorie Haun, who bills herself as “ReaganGirl,” has found a tax she likes, and she’s urging others to like it, too — and vote for it. Haun backs a proposed sales tax…
Donald Trump’s Tweet from Early This Morning (which he quickly deleted)
Early this morning, just days after a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman, President Trump retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter. The image was originally posted…
Tipton Votes to Block Consumers’ Right to Sue Big Banks
Pay attention! One of your elected officials voted to take away your right to access the court system. Your House Representative, Scott Tipton (R-CO), voted today to block Americans from suing big banks that defraud or abuse them. Tipton voted to repeal the…
One Day Left to Keep Trump from Getting Your Voting Information
The Trump administration has made a breathtaking and invasive demand to all 50 states demanding they turn over personal information on every individual registered voter in the country. The administration wants names, addresses, birth dates, political party affiliations, records of…
Ray Scott Shocks Constituents with Displays of Poor Grammar, Lack of Knowledge in Social Media Exchanges
First came this exchange via IPhone, widely shared on Facebook by a Colorado Mesa University biology graduate who specializes in conservation of endangered species. The biologist wrote to Colorado State Senator Ray Scott concerned about his uninformed, overly-simplistic views on energy production…
G.J. Chamber Snubs Sen. Ray Scott at Legislative Wrap Up
Colorado State Senator Ray Scott did not attend the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce’s legislative wrap-up breakfast session on May 23, so instead he gave the Chamber a statement to read at the event. But the Chamber refused to read it.
Trump tells murderous Filipino President Duterte he’s “doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in his country
A recently-released confidential transcript of an April, 2017 phone call from President Donald Trump to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte reveals Trump praised Duterte, telling him he’s been “doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in his country. President Duterte has had death…
President Fires FBI Director Comey Amid Investigation of Trump Campaign’s Ties to Russia
Following is NBC’s coverage of President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey yesterday, in the midst of the FBI’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference into the 2016 election to favor Trump, and the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
Grand Junction’s Tax Day March Dominates Downtown on the Day Before Easter
While some stayed home dying Easter eggs Saturday, almost 300 western slope citizens turned out for the national Tax March to demand Donald Trump make his tax returns public. Marchers gathered at Grand Junction City Hall and listened to speeches before starting off…