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CD3 candidate Beeson catches cold case murder straight out of Hollywood

By | 11.20.09 | 12:40 pm

Ninth Judicial District DA Martin Beeson, one of two Republican challengers seeking U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s Third Congressional District seat, may be too busy to fully focus on the campaign trail these days after his office caught what promises to…

Company withdraws Hunter Canyon-area mine application

By | 09.04.09 | 2:11 pm

The company proposing an underground coal mine west of Grand Junction in Mesa and Garfield counties has pulled its permit application with the Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety because of new requirements by the U.S. Bureau of Land…

Obama Grand Junction stop met with GOP health-reform gamesmanship

By | 08.17.09 | 9:43 am

President Obama aimed to lower the temperature of the health-reform debate in Colorado by appearing in person Saturday in Grand Junction and delivering a speech that framed health reform as essential economic policy, tying it to the national Recovery Act and future national prosperity. Colorado Republicans, however, weren’t ready to see the heat go out of the debate. They saw the president’s speech as mere strategy and so strategized in response.

Grand Junction health care: Can it go national?

By | 08.17.09 | 7:00 am

The Denver Post reprinted an AP article on Sunday that proclaimed: “Democrats say Grand Junction is a model for learning how to lower health care costs and improve care.” But it’s not just Democrats.

According the Christian

An Obama Grand Junction health-reform town hall primer

By | 08.12.09 | 10:47 am

As everyone in the state must know by now, Pres. Obama will visit Grand Junction this Saturday on a swing through the west. White House aides have said the trip is meant in part to highlight the nation’s park system…

Penry plays Palin card, calls pledge story a ‘left-wing blog’ fiction

By | 07.30.09 | 1:57 pm

Did he sign it? Did he doodle on it? Did he go along with it only as a gimmick? What did The Penry Pledge say? Was it: “I’ll keep my State Senate seat for four years”? Or was it: “I…

News Nuggets: 29 July 2009

By | 07.29.09 | 4:11 pm

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ALL EYES ON GRAND JUNCTION: As negotiations over health care reform get down to the nitty gritty, national attention has turned to Grand Junction, where the decades-old Rocky Mountain Health Plans model keeps

Would-Be Gov. Penry’s Grand Junction slashing jobs and services

By | 07.17.09 | 8:31 am

Recession-made fiscal discipline has come to Grand Junction, where city leaders are admitting that they will have to cut services and staff because sales taxes have fallen off a cliff. The city had already taken steps to shave $7.5 million…

Penry set to end speculation on bid for governor’s office Saturday

By | 07.07.09 | 5:18 pm

Josh Penry has made up his mind and wants to tell Colorado what he’s decided Saturday.

So reports the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the hometown paper of the state GOP’s rising star, who plans to appear with his family to…

Early Bird Special: Panhandling remains legal in Grand Junction

By | 06.30.09 | 6:02 pm

Here’s our daily roundup of some of the news around Colorado that caught our attention:

• It’s not illegal to ask for spare change on the streets of Grand Junction — at least not yet, anyway, the Daily Sentinel…