The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Progress can’t beat tradition in Palisade
Mesa County commissioners must be relieved that they don’t have to decide the fate of a 120-foot wireless tower in Palisade’s fruit and wine country. No matter how they may have voted, someone was going to be unhappy.
Growing opposition to the tower led East Orchard Mesa winemaker Theresa High of Colterris Winery to withdraw from a proposal to situate an Adaptive Communications tower on her family’s land.
As the Sentinel’s Amy Hamilton reported Saturday, the tower was intended to boost spotty internet service in Palisade and for residents of East Orchard Mesa. High indicated she was willing to allow the project to move forward on her property as an act of neighborliness. But after the project received approval from the Mesa County Planning Commission, it ran into a buzzsaw of opposition that included town trustees and Palisade’s chamber of commerce.
U.S. House probes reports of fraud, waste in Colorado’s Medicaid program
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
A congressional committee is probing reports of waste, fraud and abuse in Colorado’s Medicaid program, citing recent stories outlining over-billing in transportation spending and alleged improper payments in autism services. The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent...
Colorado’s congressional redistricting proposal could flip three Republican House seats | ANALYSIS
Michael Braithwaite
michael.braithwaite@gazette.com
Updated 13 hours ago
A Democrat-backed proposal to redraw Colorado’s congressional map for the 2028 election could flip three Republican districts. The proposal, introduced by a group called Coloradans for a Level Playing Field, is yet another development in a national redistricting debate after...
Appeals court overturns Douglas County vehicular homicide conviction due to faulty jury instructions
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 19 hours ago
Colorado’s second-highest court overturned a defendant’s vehicular homicide conviction and 12-year prison sentence on Thursday after determining a Douglas County judge omitted key language from the jury instructions that could have resulted in a different outcome. James Paul McDonald was...
Colorado lawmakers’ speeches on immigration, Iran draw worries about decorum, grandstanding
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 17 hours ago
Several speeches from Colorado legislators this week have raised new worries about decorum and grandstanding in the state House after two members talked about immigration and Iran using what’s called a “point of personal privilege.” Under the rules of the...
Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after building criticism over immigration enforcement
Michelle L. Price
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Updated 19 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said he will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days...
Trump wants to be personally ‘involved’ in picking next Iranian leader: Report
Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner
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Updated 20 hours ago
President Donald Trump told Axios Thursday that he wants to be personally involved with picking Iran‘s next leader, despite multiple senior administration officials repeatedly declaring that “regime change” is not a stated objective of Operation Epic Fury. Trump conducted an...
Iran widens regional war with first strike into Azerbaijan
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 20 hours ago
Iran spread the growing regional war to the Caucasus with its first drone strike into Azerbaijan, hitting an airport terminal and damaging a nearby school. A video recorded by someone at Nakhchivan International Airport showed one of the drones exploding...
Rand Paul excoriates Congress for failure to pass War Powers Resolution: ‘Should be ashamed’
Claire Carter, Washington Examiner
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Updated 20 hours ago
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted his colleagues for failing to pass a resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s military campaign in Iran. The Kentucky Republican made the remarks in an opinion column published on Fox News a day after...
DOJ quietly closes autopen investigation targeting Biden and aides
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Updated 20 hours ago
The Department of Justice has quietly closed an investigation into former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign official documents, according to a source familiar with the matter. DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin, the former “weaponization” czar, opened...
Colorado legislators eye changes to credit card ‘swipe fees’
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 18 hours ago
Colorado legislators are proposing to eliminate “swipe fees” on sales taxes, a move that proponents say would save businesses tens of thousands of dollars a year but which will likely revive counter-arguments that those fees help create a stable and...
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Colorado Springs government wisely ended its negotiations Thursday with Priority Ambulance service, which wants to replace American Medical Response. The Gazette’s editorial board published an editorial April 1 expressing concerns about Priority. “The city should slow this process, extend AMR’s contract one year to the end of 2019 and consider its long-term options,” the editorial […]
As Supreme Court battle roils DC, suburban voters shrug
OMAHA, Neb. – It stands to shift the direction of the nation’s highest court for decades, but President Donald Trump’s move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has barely cracked the consciousness of some voters in the nation’s top political battlegrounds. Even among this year’s most prized voting bloc – educated suburban women – there’s […]