Author: Ellen Miller
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Romney back in state to campaign
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GRAND JUNCTION — Enthusiastic Mesa County Republicans crowded into the old gym at Central High School Tuesday morning to hear presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney — the man party activists had spurned at their February caucuses. “He’s not Obama,” said Doug Thompson, who had supported Rick Santorum in the presidential preference poll during caucuses.…
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Rural groups file brief to keep ‘communities of interest’ together
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GRAND JUNCTION — Club 20, the lobbying and promotional group for Colorado’s Western Slope for nearly 60 years, has gone to court for the first time to advocate for its position. The organization, with support from Progressive 15 and Action 22, like-purposed groups for northern and southern Colorado, respectively, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Denver…
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Club 20’s Annual Autumn Steak Fry
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Legislators — current, former and probably future — as well as state and local officials, lobbyists and business people visited during the cocktail hour at the Club 20 annual steak fry at Cross Orchards, an historic working farm owned by the Museum of the West in Grand Junction. Long favored by Club 20 and numerous…
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Tipton reiterates disdain for debt ceiling deal
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GRAND JUNCTION – More than 200 people, most of them Republicans and many who identified with the Tea Party, packed the City Council chambers Friday night for an hour-long question-and-answer session with 3rd District Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez. After declaring the nation’s debt “unsustainable,” Tipton said the debt-ceiling deal “is going to hurt America.” He…
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Residents in CD 3 urge redistricting panel to make the Western Slope whole again
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GRAND JUNCTION — Many of the 37 witnesses who offered testimony Saturday to the final field hearing of the Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Redistricting had lots of suggestions of which counties to add to the 3rd Congressional District, but few ideas of which should be removed. The 3rd District, which sprawls from Las Animas…
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Hickenlooper first looks west to develop statewide economic development plan
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FRUITA — Cross-promoting Colorado’s businesses, landscapes and small-business innovation is a key to driving economic development during hard times, Gov. John Hickenlooper told more than 100 Western Slope elected officials, economic development experts, association employees and a scattering of private business people Friday. In the first of a 3½-month effort to develop a statewide economic…
