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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Test scores are as bad as we feared
There was a fear during the COVID-19 pandemic that American children would fall behind academically due to the significant disruption to schooling. Results from a new national test confirm that our students have had a major learning setback. The next step is to figure out what to do about it. The test, called the National…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Leave medical decisions to the FDA
Exciting new treatments and therapies for crippling depression, anxiety and PTSD are emerging before our eyes. The science, especially around psychedelic treatments, is impressive and real. Does that mean voters should decide to open this treatment up to everyone statewide by supporting Proposition 122? Let’s think this through. So-called “magic mushrooms” do appear to have…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: The leader we need on water
The race for attorney general is always an important one, but with the negotiations around the Colorado River Compact set to heat up in the next few years, this role is more important than ever. We need someone in our corner who is cut like a diamond on water law. We are lucky as a…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Help our young farmers lead
Our agricultural system in the West has two big problems – water and age. Some Colorado communities are now working to tackle both issues, and Mesa County should take note. Across the state, innovative programs are sprouting up to not only train the next generation of farmers, but also build a more resilient and sustainable…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Managing lands for the future
With Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning in town this week, we think now is an apt time to reflect on the history of this public lands agency and what its future in the West should look like. Stone-Manning is in town to address The Public Lands Foundation at its annual meeting, which is…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Good plan, BLM, now make it happen
The talk out of the Bureau of Land Management about the future of its now western headquarters in Grand Junction sounds good to us, but talk is really all we’ve ever had around the agency’s move here. So far we’ve seen little action. The BLM’s director, Tracy Stone-Manning, last week provided details on the agency’s…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Don’t freak out about pot sales
Colorado’s cannabis industry is facing declines it has never seen before just as Grand Junction, fashionably late to the party as usual, is getting ready to open its first retail marijuana stores, but we don’t think things are as dire as they might appear. The contraction is coming after steady increases in cannabis revenue were…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Send Peters home
In general, The Daily Sentinel does not endorse in primary elections. But we are making an exception this year to endorse against the following: running with scissors, drinking Drano and voting for Tina Peters. She is a uniquely unqualified, incompetent and immoral candidate in the Republican race for secretary of state. We’re not endorsing any…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Veterans laid to rest at long last
This week, 25 U.S. military veterans and two spouses of veterans were laid to rest at long last thanks to the efforts of the Missing in America Project (MIAP), the local Callahan-Edfast Mortuary and Crematory and our state representatives. These veterans, who had served in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and…
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: We can mitigate gun deaths
Rep. Lauren Boebert was on cable news recently and said something we agree with, though we doubt she had thought through the implications of her comment. Appearing on Fox News, Boebert said, “When 9/11 happened, we didn’t ban planes. We secured the cockpit.” Boebert made these comments to argue for “hardening” America’s schools in response…