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Our first instinct, after hearing that weeds had been pulled from an overgrown yard on the East Side, was to heap praise on the four volunteers who did the work. As The Pueblo Chieftain reported a few days ago, an abandoned property in the neighborhood was taking on the look of the Amazon rain forest,…

Once again, Mesa County officials make a mockery of the concept of open and transparent government. Read more at The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Most Coloradans know that the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, or TABOR, limits the growth of the state budget. When the state takes in more revenue than what the TABOR formula allows, it’s supposed to refund the excess. That’s only happened once in the last 14 years. Even so, Democrats in the statehouse approved a November…

More than 1,100 Special Olympics athletes (including their “unified partners” and coaches) from around the state converged on Grand Junction last weekend, dwarfing the number of junior college baseball players who competed in the Alpine Bank Junior College World Series earlier this spring. It was the seventh straight year Grand Junction has hosted the Colorado…

Was Gov. Jared Polis wrong to observe that Denver seems to have a better chance than Grand Junction of becoming the new home of the Bureau of Land Management’s relocated headquarters? The governor seems aware that he touched a nerve with a statement he made before Denver business leaders at a luncheon on Wednesday. “Denver…

Mesa County Valley School District 51 needs a lot more money to provide the kind of safe and modern learning environments most of us would expect of our public schools. District leaders made a strong case for a bond measure and mill levy override in 2017. Mercifully, voters said yes to both. The $118.5 million…

You, newspaper subscriber, aren’t going to get scammed because you’re armed with knowledge about the latest sophisticated swindle making the rounds. Fraud schemes mutate like viruses and fraudsters are constantly using new methods to stay ahead of people’s awareness of their dirty tricks.  Read more at The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Fans of “magic mushrooms” seem to be using the same playbook that led to legalizing marijuana in Colorado. The first step: convince Denver voters to decriminalize use and possession. Voters appear to have passed Initiated Ordinance 301 by a thin margin, but the results have yet to be certified. If the ordinance does indeed pass,…

Homes in Mesa County are worth more now than at any point in the past decade. That’s a solid sign of recovery from the Great Recession, though we’ve long argued that it won’t truly be complete until the workforce numbers are back to where they were at their peak in the mid-2000s. Maybe by then,…