Tipton and Gardner vote to end consumers’ right to sue when big banks steal from them
October 25, 2017
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Why is the stock market zooming up so high? Because the Trump administration is gutting consumer protections, most notably against the big banks, so the ...
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AZ Senator Jeff Flake’s bombshell speech about Republicans’ “complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs” with Trump as U.S. President
October 25, 2017
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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 ...
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Sentinel wrongly blames citizens for North Avenue name change “imbroglio”
October 22, 2017
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In an op-ed in today’s Daily Sentinel, the paper blames KeepNorth4Ever — the citizen group lobbying to keep “North Avenue” from becoming “University Boulevard” — ...
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The dark money groups, shady astroturfers and wealthy locals backing Measure 1A, the public safety sales tax
October 19, 2017
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Ballot Measure 1A will increase the sales tax in Mesa County by 0.37% to fund the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney’s office. ...
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CBS/Washington Post: U.S. Congress complicit in advancing the U.S. opioid epidemic
October 16, 2017
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A blockbuster CBS News/60 Minutes and Washington Post investigation reveals that after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) cracked down on big pharmaceutical distributors who ...
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CMU 20000 Steering Committee asks City Council to reconsider changing name of North Ave. to “University Blvd.”
October 14, 2017
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The CMU 20000 Steering Committee has formally asked the Grand Junction City Council to reconsider it’s decision to change the name of North Avenue to ...
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