Author: The Daily Sentinel editorial board

Earlier this year, the travel-planning website TripAdvisor included Grand Junction among its “Most Charming Downtowns in America” based on an average traveler rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. That’s solid, if not spectacular, affirmation that downtown boosters have succeeded in turning the downtown area into a tourist draw. Out-of-towners enjoy the Art on the…

When groups of young students come in to tour the Sentinel, the editorial page editor will often ask them if they know what “opinion” is. They rarely volunteer an answer. So they get a quick lesson. “My shirt is blue. My shirt is ugly. Which statement is an opinion?” They get it. One statement is…

Do you often worry about the optics of a situation or about transparency in your everyday life? Do you often pivot from one task to the other or seek to find out who’s complicit in the collusion you find in everyday life? Of course not. Unless you are a politician, or self-important pundit who throw…

For the past decade, Citizens Climate Lobby has been playing the “long game,” slowly building grassroots support and bipartisan buy-in for a way to drive down carbon pollution and bring climate change under control. Those efforts have paid off with a bill in Congress, HR763, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. The bill may…

We don’t pretend to know how a court case will play out, but we’re encouraged to see an attempt to hold vaping companies to account. The Olathe (Kansas) School District was expected on Friday to approve a lawsuit against the maker of Juuls, the little electronic gizmos through which people inhale nicotine vapor. We would…

The relocation of the Bureau of Land Management is so controversial that even its choice for office space in Grand Junction hasn’t escaped criticism. The ink was barely dry on the lease agreement for office space at 760 Horizon Drive before Colorado Public Radio and the Washington Post pointed out that the BLM’s new headquarters…

Mesa County’s economy is doing surprisingly well given a fall-off in oil and gas jobs. We say it’s surprising simply because our economic performance has ebbed and flowed with drilling activity for so long. But decades of local efforts to diversify the economy are paying off. Construction, health care, and educational services are leading the…

Frequent fliers to Grand Junction Regional Airport must wonder why the skeleton of a building has stood near the terminal for nearly six years. What kind of aimless community erects but doesn’t complete a large structure next to the airport terminal? The eyesore is hardly the image the Grand Valley wants to project as a…

When two students began a deadly shooting attack on the STEM School in Highlands Ranch last May, a private security guard working at the school shot and wounded an uninvolved student while accidentally firing at a responding sheriff’s deputy, the Colorado Sun reported recently. The security officer wasn’t supposed to be armed. The Douglas County…

Representatives of Citizens for School District 51 paid a visit to the Sentinel’s editorial board Tuesday to make the case for the $179.5 million bond measure on November’s ballot. We asked the hard questions – seeking assurances that a new Grand Junction High School can be built on its current site without structural problems that…