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This should be the easiest City Council vote you’ve ever cast
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This should be the easiest City Council vote you’ve ever cast

By The Business Times Staff | The Business Times As we see it, the coming Grand Junction City Council election on April 8, 2025, provides some simple choices. Although in our fair city two problems tend to arise when it comes to our spring, City Council elections. The first is always most glaring and in the past few elections has probably caused the citizens the most problems. And that’s most folks registered to vote simply don’t vote in City Council elections, which lately has ended with a bunch of “do-gooder” progressives getting elected to our City Council. And while you can’t readily identify them by the (D) that should follow their names on the ballot – as City Council elections are “nonpartisan,” the second problem – you can tell them by the company they keep. After the p...
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Political insider fills state senate vacancy
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Political insider fills state senate vacancy

By  Brandon Wark | Free State Colorado Colorado Democrats just appointed a political insider to the State Senate! Sonya Jaquez Lewis resigned in disgrace after allegations and an ethics investigation into her mistreatment of Legislative Aides. To make matters worse, it seems that Lewis penned a fake letter of support to help her case. Vacancy committee appointments have led to some of the most extreme legislators serving in the State Legislature. And by all accounts, it looks like Katie Wallace is going to be another example. WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE
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City of Delta voters to decide on updated charter in special election
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City of Delta voters to decide on updated charter in special election

By Delta County Independent The City of Delta will hold a special election on April 1 for voters to decide on the adoption of a new city charter. This follows the 2024 election, in which citizens approved the formation of a Charter Commission to review and update the existing charter, which was originally adopted in 1950. The elected nine-member Delta Charter Commission, with guidance from the city attorney, city staff and community members, met extensively to assess necessary revisions, taking into account changes in state laws, the Colorado Constitution, and modern municipal governance practices. After thorough review, the commission determined that a full rewrite, rather than piecemeal amendments, was the most effective approach to streamlining and modernizing the city’s founda...
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Rep. Gabe Evans defends GOP spending bill as Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Joe Neguse warn it will slash Medicaid
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Rep. Gabe Evans defends GOP spending bill as Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Joe Neguse warn it will slash Medicaid

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado The Republican spending bill is helping unite the Democratic Party after days of infighting over a GOP resolution to avert a shutdown. Party leaders called for a Medicaid Day of Action to protest the spending bill that they say will mean drastic cuts to Medicaid. The party turned to two heavy hitters in Colorado -- Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Joe Neguse, who represents Colorado's 2nd Congressional District -- who held an event at Clinica Family Health in Lafayette to sound an alarm. "$880 billion of cuts to Medicaid would dismantle the Medicaid program as we know it, and it would mean that hundreds of thousands of Coloradans would no longer have access to health care," warned Neguse. The GOP resolution directs the Energy and Commerce Committ...
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Colorado building owners face $17 million per year fine under energy bill
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Colorado building owners face $17 million per year fine under energy bill

By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics A measure aimed at easing some of the near-term requirements from a 2021 law that seeks to reduce greenhouse emissions is facing opposition from the industry it claims to be assisting, with businesses noting the bill allows for tens of millions of dollars in fines. House Bill 1269, sponsored by Reps. Jenny Willford, D-Northglenn, and Alex Valdez, D-Denver, seeks to ease some of the requirements outlined in a 2021 law, which established the building performance program in the Colorado Energy Office. Under that bill, buildings over 50,000 square feet, which amounts to about 8,300 buildings statewide, are required to achieve a 7% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2026. After hearing from building owners who argued that the sta...
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Walcher: Squirrels Killed by the Forest Service, or the Courts?
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Walcher: Squirrels Killed by the Forest Service, or the Courts?

By Greg Walcher | Guest Commentary, GregWalcher.com In 2017 the Arizona Game and Fish Department estimated that there were only 252 Mount Graham red squirrels left. They only inhabited a few hundred acres in the 10,000-foot Pinaleño Mountains, not equipped to survive the heat of the surrounding deserts. Then, a lightning strike started a 48,000-acre fire in that section of the Coronado National Forest, incinerating all but 35 of the Mount Graham squirrels in existence. Federal and state wildlife officials thought the species faced likely extinction. It is a more common story than you might think. The Journal Science published a study in 2020 called “Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene,” analyzing the danger of wildfires to threatened and endangered species. Across nine taxonomi...
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Colorado drug bust includes elephant sedative
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Colorado drug bust includes elephant sedative

By Logan Smith | CBS Colorado Three people recently arrested for carrying drugs in western Colorado had among their stash an opioid said to be 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl.  A Delta County Sheriff's Office deputy pulled over a vehicle on March 3 that was swerving over the lane stripes on Highway 50 west of Delta.  Another Delta deputy invited his K9 "Teg" to sniff the vehicle. The dog alerted to the presence of narcotics.  The deputies removed the three people from the car and searched it, finding approximately 1500 fentanyl pills, 50 grams of fentanyl powder, 12 grams of ecstacy pills, 454 grams of methamphetamine, and 21 grams of Carfentanil.  READ FULL ARTICLE ON CBS COLORADO
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Downtown Denver Partnership gets a $1.5 million boost, city settles another police liability claim
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Downtown Denver Partnership gets a $1.5 million boost, city settles another police liability claim

By Deborah Grigsby | Denver Gazette The Denver City Council approved a resolution Monday night, clearing the way for an additional cash infusion to provide “activation activities related to the reopening of the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.”  Council Resolution 25-0191 amends a contract with the Downtown Denver Partnership, adding $1.5 million – for a new total of $1.9 million – for events and permanent installations that draw crowds, as well as increased safety and operations, according to city documents. The resolution, a late filing by City Council President Amanda Sandoval, conjured mixed reactions among some council members. At-Large Councilmember Sarah Parady called the resolution out, citing concerns with “the budget environment that we’re in and that we’re g...
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Meckstroth: A Well Informed Citizenry…
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Meckstroth: A Well Informed Citizenry…

By Rick Meckstroth, Rural Custer County Citizen | Guest Commentary, Sangre de Cristo Sentinel Thomas Jefferson has a very famous quote: “A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.” At a conference this past weekend, I saw a great example of how well (or poorly) informed we are that came from a recent study conducted by the The Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.) According to the report, only 39 percent of Americans can pass a multiple choice test with questions taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test (the passing score is 60% correct). Less than a quarter (24%), knew why the colonists fought the British and  2 percent thought we fought World War II over climate change. If one looks deeper into the numb...
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What the JFK assassination files have revealed so far — including apparent KGB probe into Lee Harvey Oswald
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What the JFK assassination files have revealed so far — including apparent KGB probe into Lee Harvey Oswald

By Richard Pollina | New York Post The long-awaited release of tens of thousands of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has sparked a desperate search for new clues in the shocking crime more than 60 years later. The trove of previously classified pages spanning decades was made available by President Trump on the National Archives website Tuesday, with most seemingly only confirming information long known. However, some interesting snippets being pored over include documents shedding light on theories eyeing a “small clique” in the CIA being involved — as well as an apparent KGB investigation to find if assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was one of its agents. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
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