Author name: Lindy Browning

Grand Junction punts again on homeless center to the ire of taxpayers

Downtown residents and businesses continue to be frustrated by the Grand Junction City Council’s efforts to find a way to meet the needs of vulnerable homeless people while saying they want to protect the homeowners and businesses from the darker element that lives within the homeless population. 

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Could Polis really align with Trump on anything? He might on cutting from BLM wild horse management budget

In a shocking and unexpected post on Twitter/X, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis posted that he wants the Trump administration to give at least half the funding that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) uses to manage Colorado wild horses to Colorado.

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Activists still trying to influence CPW over mountain lion hunting, despite ballot box loss

Even after voters rejected a ban on mountain lion hunting, people that supported the ban are continuing to try to influence Colorado wildlife officials into implementing many of the measures that voters rejected in Prop. 127 during the CPW rulemaking and hearings  process.

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The irony of Colorado obtaining gray wolves from British Columbia

While Colorado wildlife managers have been trying to figure out where to get the next crop of 10 to 15 wolves to import into Colorado, British Columbia, Canada, has been trying to cull their population of wolves because of the predation of caribou that led to the endangerment of the herds.

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Mesa County commissioners updated on pretrial and corrections services programs

Matt Lewis, a former Mesa County sheriff and current Justice Services Director for the county, updated Mesa County commissioners on the status of their Pretrial Services (PTS) program and the County Community Corrections Services program on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

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Western Colorado ranchers bracing for impact of the next release of wolves

Sen. Perry Will told his constituents in a social media post “Brace yourselves, Garfield County,” after Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) announced that they will begin phase two of their wolf reintroduction program, adding insult to injury to western Colorado ranchers who have already seen the devastating impact on livestock on their northern neighbors.

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‘CDOT is going to have to answer some hard questions’: Former, current congressmen want answers on failures

Former State Sen. Ray Scott has been trying to hold the Colorado Department of Transportation accountable for more than a decade, and even after his term expired, he has stayed focused on the issue at the request of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert.

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Northwest Colorado open to prospect of nuclear power generation, survey says

With the impending closure of the Craig and Hayden Power Stations, the closing of the coal mines in Northwest Colorado and the state and federal push to rid the area of traditional fossil fuel base load generation,  Rio Blanco, Moffat, and Routt county governments are trying to figure out how to replace the imminent job loss, revenue loss and tax loss that are certain to devastate their local governments and the residents in those communities that have relied on a fossil fuel economy for decades.

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