Rocky Mountain Voice

In Grand Junction, scrutiny intensifies on Resource Center to address rising crime, other issues

Once celebrated as one of the top 10 main streets in the U.S., Grand Junction’s downtown now faces turmoil. Business owners, frustrated with the nearby Resource Center, are cleaning up feces and needles and dealing with fires and property damage. Many are calling for the center to be relocated.

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Food Bank of the Rockies facing challenge of meeting highest food insecurity level in a decade

“On the Western Slope, one in eight people — our neighbors — are food insecure. For children, it’s even worse: one in seven kids is unsure where their next meal will come from,” shares Sue Ellen Rodwick, director of the Western Slope Food Bank of the Rockies. “Statewide, the numbers are slightly better, but still troubling. One in nine Coloradans face food insecurity.”

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Sloan: Could Doug Burgum and Chris Wright lead an American energy revival?

There is much consternation in different corners about President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks; indeed, some of it is not entirely unwarranted. Much of it, on the other hand, is on the order of polemical hysteria, an outcropping of the left’s general caterwauling about how America under a second Trump presidency will take on the appearance of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

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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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Kalam: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s insurrection rhetoric

In the wake of the recent electoral landslide — a decisive repudiation of unchecked illegal immigration and the catastrophic security failures at America’s borders — one might have expected local leaders to reconsider their stances on sanctuary city policies.

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