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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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Colorado Water Plan all about West Slope water diversion
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GRAND JUNCTION — James Eklund, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, told Club 20 in late March that the “seven points of consensus” thus far approved as a preliminary step in finalizing the Colorado Water Plan requested by Gov. John Hickenlooper represent a “new paradigm” in Front Range and Western Slope relations regarding water,…
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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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Club 20: AG defends Colorado’s legal pot regulations
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GRAND JUNCTION — Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is vigorously, if reluctantly, defending Colorado’s legislation regulating marijuana against a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma, stating to Club 20 that a recent indictment of 32 people pretending to be medical marijuana growers shows that Colorado is striving to prevent illegally grown pot from entering other…
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West Slope lawmakers talk TABOR, water at Club 20
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GRAND JUNCTION — A panel of seven Western Slope legislators — six Republicans and one Democrat — discussed diverse issues they’re working on in the state legislature at the Club 20 annual meeting on March 28, focusing on water, energy, the economy, TABOR and federal lands. Sen. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, said he and…
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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…
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Two Grand Junction city council races in full swing
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GRAND JUNCTION – There are two contested races in this year’s Grand Junction City Council election, which concludes April 7; ballots were mailed on March 16. Running for a four-year term are Dennis J. Simpson, a certified public accountant who describes himself as “a fiscal conservative and lifetime Republican,” and Chris Kennedy, a telecommunications executive…
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Club 20 appoints new executive director
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Club 20 was founded in 1953 to enable Western Slope cities, counties and businesses to speak with one voice to the state legislature in Denver. Today, the venerable 62-year-old lobbying organization is being led by one of its youngest executive directors, a former aide to U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-CD 3, named Christian Reece. Reece…
