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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Shutdown: the déjà vu of D.C. dysfunction
Congress is closing shop for 2018 without passing legislation to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. It’s just another example of how dysfunctional Washington, D.C., has become. Reauthorizing the LWCF is the closest thing Congress has to an easy “win,” yet somehow it managed to push it to the back burner amid the latest…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: A homegrown turnaround
One of the reasons Mesa County is a bright spot in a state economic forecast released Monday by the Colorado Business Economic Outlook “is that it hasn’t been a bright spot.” That’s according to Richard Wobbekind, the executive director of the Leeds Business School’s research division at the University of Colorado. Wobbekind should be a…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Psychiatric hospital a big step for wellness
With the opening of an expanded in-patient psychiatric care facility in Grand Junction that will double its capacity to serve patients, the Western Slope is making its biggest gain yet in fixing an imbalance of health-care services. The Grand Valley has an impressive history of collaboration to improve access to primary and specialty care. That’s…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: We all deserve clean air
Coloradans rejected – wisely, in our estimation – Proposition 112, which would have increased setbacks for new oil and gas development to nearly half a mile from occupied structures – something opponents called a “de facto” ban on drilling. We opposed 112 on the premise that it was using a chainsaw to address a problem…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Happy Thanksgiving
It was 397 years ago that 53 surviving Puritans in what would become Massachusetts gathered, with a number of neighboring Wampanoag Indians, to give thanks for having survived a brutal first year on a new continent, for a bountiful harvest that autumn of 1621 and for the assistance of those Native Americans in helping them…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Bring a smoking ban
Fruita officials would be acting well within reason to ban smoking in outdoor spaces the city owns and maintains based on the threat of catastrophic wildfire alone. The same holds true for any town in the Rocky Mountain West. The ongoing drought is creating ripe conditions for a conflagration. Ask Californians if they think there…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: A win for outdoor rec
Since acquiring Powderhorn in 2011, the ownership group consisting of Andy Daly and the Gart brothers has embraced a vision that what’s good for the Grand Valley is good for the ski resort. Put another way, giving people an affordable mountain experience, be it on skis or on a mountain bike, adds to the quality…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: A wake-up call
One of the ironies of Colorado’s water situation is the need for more storage to help the state through dry years when we can’t even fill what we’ve got because of the drought. The graph on page 1 of Sunday’s front page was downright bleak. Since the late 1990s, the Colorado River’s total system storage…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Resist tribal instincts
We’ll never have world peace because of our tribal nature. So says Jonathan Haidt, an American moral psychologist and professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. There’s a growing body of research tying human social evolution to today’s polarized political culture among Western nations. The number of articles by cognitive…
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: A big court date
A living civics lesson played out on the Colorado Mesa University campus Wednesday when, for the first time in its 89-year history, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in western Colorado. It was a rare chance to observe an important part of the federal judicial process that isn’t widely known or understood.…