Author: Ron Bain
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Gardner stops just short of calling for EPA director McCarthy’s resignation, not short on criticisms
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MONTROSE – At an Aug. 11 town hall meeting, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., seemed to join those calling for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency director Gina McCarthy, noting that the number of people calling for her resignation was mounting following the EPA-caused spill of three million gallons of mine waste into the Animas River…
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West Slope residents protest BLM’s closure of roads
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GRAND JUNCTION – Approximately 200 Western Slope residents – men, women and children – gathered on Saturday, May 2 at the Bureau of Land Management’s western Colorado headquarters to protest the BLM’s policy of closing as many as 60 percent of historical county roads, ATV trails and dead-end routes on public lands that have been…
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GJ, Glenwood Springs elect new council members
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A businessman and a planner won the Glenwood Springs city council at-large seats in Tuesday’s municipal election, and in Grand Junction the victors were a self-proclaimed forward-thinking progressive and a former corporate executive. In Glenwood Springs, businessman and homebuilder Steve Davis won the Ward 1 election with 59.38 percent of the vote and Planning and…
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Bridge dominates Glenwood Springs council races
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS – A single issue – replacing the narrow, decades old Highway 82 bridge that connects the north side of town with the south – dominates the two contested races in the Glenwood Springs city council election, with mail balloting underway now. It’s not that the issue is controversial – all the candidates agree…
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Two West Slope sheriffs join pot suit
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Six Colorado sheriffs, including two from the Western Slope, have joined the Drug Free America Foundation’s lawsuit against Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado. The goal of the lawsuit, according to Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee, is to force the U.S. Supreme Court to finally rule on whether states can defy federal law…
