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In town this weekend for the Club 20 debates, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams stopped by the Sentinel Friday to make a pitch for an endorsement. The Sentinel won’t make endorsements until closer to when ballots hit mailboxes in October, but the record that Williams is running on is certainly worth mentioning at a…

Coexist peacefully and safely. That is a complete necessity when it comes to the world of motorists and road cyclists. A recent forum brought a number of issues to the table on the subject and at the heart of this issue is getting the two sides to coexist with less frustration on both sides. That’s…

The debate over whether Grand Valley irrigation canal banks and roads should be accessible to the commuting and recreating public isn’t as old as the canals themselves. It just seems that way. Every few years, some entity – usually the city of Grand Junction – broaches the idea of placing trails on top of or…

On the heels of the announcement that VF Corp. is moving its corporate headquarters to Denver, The Denver Post ran an editorial stating that Colorado “should take its foot off the economic development accelerator.” Oh, how nice it must be to sit in the lap of largesse on the Front Range, dismissing the significance of…

At the end of tonight’s Mesa County Valley School District 51 Board of Education meeting, board members will get legal advice on specific questions regarding Superintendent Ken Haptonstall’s employment contract behind closed doors. Our hope is that these legal questions revolve around terminating Haptonstall for cause – thus possibly avoiding an expensive severance or buy-out…

Of the seven proposed citizens’ initiatives that are trying to qualify for the November ballot, two stand out for their dangerous repercussions and should be rejected if voters are forced to decide the measures’ fate. If the next Colorado governor inherits either Initiative 97 or Initiative 108 or both, catastrophic results await state and local…

After returning to his family home in the shadow of Pikes Peak, Garett Reppenhagen retreated to the outdoors to reflect on his experience as an Army sniper in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. “Without the solace and serenity of our public lands I never would have survived the transition,” he said. Today Reppenhagen is the Rocky Mountain…

How do you end homelessness? Too often we become wrapped up in policies to deal with the symptoms of homelessness – panhandling, loitering in public places, sleeping in alleys – instead of the focusing on the most effective solution, which is sheltering people and giving them access to resources to get back on their feet.…

In the course of unraveling why Montrose County had to resort to hand-counting more than 10,000 ballots during June’s primary election, the Daily Sentinel’s Erin McIntyre uncovered other troubling pieces of information that stand out in an era where “election integrity” has become a political buzzword. One is that more than a third of Colorado’s…

The Mesa County Valley School District 51 Board of Education is facing many questions as it contemplates a response to the discovery that Superintendent Ken Haptonstall’s administrative reorganization will cost substantially more than he indicated. But the biggest question is whether Haptonstall can be an effective leader in the wake of the controversy. In our…