The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel editorial: The elephant on Main
The most interesting thing about Thursday’s front-page story detailing efforts to boost downtown Grand Junction’s image is the way officials tiptoed around the uncomfortable topic of vagrancy.
Not that we blame them. It’s the burr under the saddle that the city can’t extract. Officials have certainly tried. An effort to establish a panhandling ordinance ran into legal challenges from the American Civil Liberties Union.
But the city rebounded by forming a Homeless and Vagrancy Committee that’s trying to carve out some specific ways to deal with two very different issues.
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Marianne Goodland
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Updated 23 minutes ago
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Michael Karlik
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Updated 14 hours ago
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Jacob Mauk
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Updated 11 hours ago
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Colorado prostitution decriminalization bill shelved after sponsor says it lacks votes
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 24 minutes ago
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Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner
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Updated 14 hours ago
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Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner
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Updated 15 hours ago
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Michael Karlik
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Updated 16 hours ago
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Michael Karlik
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Updated 18 hours ago
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Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 17 hours ago
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Supreme Court to hold oral arguments, discipline commission releases report | COURT CRAWL
Michael Karlik
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Updated 19 hours ago
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court is holding oral arguments this week, plus Colorado’s judicial discipline commission released its annual report. Colorado Supreme Court news • The Supreme...