Summary of Rep. Jeff Hurd’s 3/11/25 town hall meeting
Here is a summary of CD-3 House Rep. Jeff Hurd (R)’s town hall meeting held on 3/11/2025, with thanks to […]
Health care
What’s wrong with “Medicare Advantage” plans?
Re-publishing this article in the wake of the murder of the UnitedHealth Care CEO in New York this week. Authorities
St. Mary’s helps greedwash one of Earth’s worst corporate criminals
Yesterday’s mail brought a glossy new promotional magazine called “Grand Junction Lifestyle.” Given the cute kid and baby animal pictured
Abortion access initiative makes it onto Colorado’s 2024 ballot
It’s official. The initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Colorado state Constitution will be on the ballot this November.
Colorado’s abortion rights ballot measure surpasses its signature goal, putting it one step closer to being on the 2024 November Ballot
Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom announced that it has surpassed their campaign’s goal of collecting 185,000 signatures to put Ballot
Help keep Colorado a free state
Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom (CPRF) made an appearance last weekend in Grand Junction to boost the signature-gathering effort to
Mesa County Public Library to host educational seminar about menstrual health for teens 14-18 on Sat., Jan. 27, 1-2:30 p.m.
The downtown Mesa County Public Library will host a free educational workshop on menstrual health on Saturday, January 27 from
Signature-gathering effort for ballot initiative to guarantee abortion rights in CO kicks off 1/23 in Grand Junction
The effort to get Amendment 89, a constitutional amendment to protect the right to an abortion from government interference in
Craig Gallery in Palisade to host art event 11/25 to benefit HopeWest
Craig Gallery at 128 E. 3rd in downtown Palisade is hosting a holiday event called “Put a Bow on It”
Mesa County Commissioners’ new chair of the Public Health Board refuses to say if he believes Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and spare Jews and Chinese people
The Mesa County Commissioners’ newly-appointed Chair of the Public Health Board, Stephen D. Daniels, has made it known that he
The Mesa County employee behind the effort to fire Public Health Department Director Jeff Kuhr
Lisa Mills is a behavioral health strategies manager for Mesa County’s Department of Health and Human Services and by all
Teachers union president resigns via email amid flap over school closures & conservative school board members’ rejection of health clinic at GJHS
Timothy Couch, President of the Mesa Valley Education Association (MVEA), resigned via email March 8, on the same day the
Bigger than Roe western slope march planned for Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023 @ 1:00 p.m.
Fifty years to the day after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion a constitutional right,
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If you live in Grand Junction, Mesa County or anywhere on the western slope, need an abortion and are having
Need an abortion in Grand Junction, or on the western slope? Here is updated information.
NOTE: I’ve written about how to obtain an abortion in Mesa County before on this blog, most recently in 2020,
G.J. citizens rally to protest draft Supreme Court opinion indicating Court will vote to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion
The Mesa County Women’s Right Action League organized a rally on short notice today in response to a leaked draft
“Gold standard” medical study finds Ivermectin does not reduce risk of severe Covid-19
A large number of Mesa County residents harbor the mistaken belief that the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin, used to de-worm horses
Another Rimrock Wellness Center chiropractor dispenses dangerous medical disinformation
For many people, chiropractors are de facto primary health care providers, particularly in medically underserved rural areas like the western