Tag: Grand Junction

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A dustup between politicians and landowners at an oil and gas royalty owners meeting in Grand Junction last weekend underscores the complexity of the new drilling regulations – and the heated emotions they stir in some mineral-rights holders.

The question is no longer whether Scott McInnis would have beaten Mark Udall in last year’s U.S. Senate race – a suggestion he made to the Colorado Independent that touched off a minor firestorm last fall – but just how he’ll fare getting the GOP nod to take on Gov. Bill Ritter next year.

A national group of atheists and agnostics erected a billboard celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth just outside Grand Junction this week, the Freedom From Religion Foundation announced Tuesday. The town landed the "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief" billboard -- which also commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species -- because Grand Junction rejected a proposal by a local atheist to proclaim a day honoring the father of evolution, FFRF said in a release.

Not sounding quite as conciliatory as his state Senate Republican colleague Al White, R-Hayden, minority leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Tuesday he’ll do everything in his power to slow down FASTER.

Call it a slowdown or call it a bust, but it’s clear the natural-gas boom stoking the fires of development on Colorado’s Western Slope the last several years is all but over.

Pink lemonade-swilling GOP state Rep. Laura Bradford's answers to the typically bland Colorado Statesman freshman survey offer up a couple of unexpected doozies between listings of her favorite book, pets' names and who was responsible for campaign-season attack ads.

When Vice President Dick Cheney flew into Grand Junction on Friday for a fund-raiser for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, anti-war and...

Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Grand Junction Friday morning for a private fund-raiser for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer. Cheney can...

Looking at the background, it is hard to tell where in the heck Gov. Bill Ritter was visiting in Colorado over the weekend. If your...