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What if we told you that a relatively small investment today could result in all of the following down the road: significantly reduced incarceration rates higher educational attainment higher average household income lower suicide rates higher life satisfaction scores Would you take that bargain? A newly released Community Health Needs Assessment confirms what most parents…

When it was announced back in December that District 51 would no longer require students to wear masks in schools with high COVID-19 transmission rates, we asked for an open, public discussion on this change. Last night the Board of Education had a discussion. It was imperfect, but we appreciate them having it and involving…

Mesa County is not the only county with a rogue county clerk messing with its election equipment anymore. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is looking into a second potential breach of election equipment, this time in Elbert County. The story is similar to what we’ve been dealing with in Mesa County. Secretary of State…

As we celebrated Martin Luther King Day on Monday, despite our challenges as a nation, we felt hopeful for the future. Seeing where the nation was during King’s time compared to where we are now shows that we’ve made considerable progress for minority rights. There is still a long way to go, and King’s own…

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters may soon be back in charge of her Elections Division, albeit her authority somewhat handcuffed, but should she be allowed to? According to reporting by The Daily Sentinel’s Charles Ashby, Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office is asking Peters to sign a “certificate of attestation” agreement that would open the…

It’s been a year since the insurrection at the Capitol and the country remains as divided as ever, but we see a ray of hope. There has been and will continue to be coverage in the media of what happened on Jan. 6, but we want to focus on how we come back from such…

In the final days of 2021, Colorado suffered one last tragedy as a wildfire, driven by 100-plus mile-per-hour winds, destroyed nearly 1,000 homes in Superior and Louisville on the Front Range. There are still two people missing. First and foremost we commend the state and local authorities for their response thus far to this tragedy.…

Like you, we hear the pandemic panic talk du jour: The omicron variant will sweep across the country and overwhelm our medical system. Airlines are canceling flights because of new infections of their workers. Some school systems and universities talk of not returning in person after the holidays in anticipation of a spike in infections.…

The extensive investigative reporting by the Colorado News Collaborative in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Sentinel regarding Mind Springs Health was quite revealing. And sobering. It paints a picture of a vital organization failing at its mission in the communities it is supposed to serve, and thwarting inquiries into where things are going wrong. With…

The move of the Bureau of Land Management headquarters back to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction still stings, but it may not be as big of a blow to the community as we originally feared with the Biden administration announcing plans for 36 jobs here at the newly created western headquarters. Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa…