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Penry-passed pit-liner bill to protect groundwater upheld by Denver judge

A bill mandating stricter handling of oil and gas brine that was passed in 2008 by strange bedfellows Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, in the...

CD3 candidate Beeson catches cold case murder straight out of Hollywood

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...

Company withdraws Hunter Canyon-area mine application

The company proposing an underground coal mine west of Grand Junction in Mesa and Garfield counties has pulled its permit application with the Colorado...

Obama Grand Junction stop met with GOP health-reform gamesmanship

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?

The Denver Post reprinted an AP article on Sunday that proclaimed: "Democrats say Grand Junction is a model for learning how to lower health...

An Obama Grand Junction health-reform town hall primer

As everyone in the state must know by now, Pres. Obama will visit Grand Junction this Saturday on a swing through the west. White...

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

Did he sign it? Did he doodle on it? Did he go along with it only as a gimmick? What did The Penry Pledge...

News Nuggets: 29 July 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. ALL EYES ON GRAND JUNCTION: As negotiations over health care reform get down to the nitty gritty, national attention has...

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

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...

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

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...