Editorials

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Optimism on Avalon

For those who believe the Avalon Theatre is a facility worth saving, and that the city of Grand Junction should play a major role in that rejuvenation effort, the news from last Friday’s City Council meeting was indeed welcome. During ...

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Middle East muddle

Iranians elected a new president over the weekend who is seen as a reformer. Tunisians are struggling to figure out what role Islam should play in their developing constitution and government. And fighting in Syria continues unabated by the ...

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Mesa County gets a win

Congratulations to Mesa County for its handling of federal money that led to the county keeping $1.6 million that the Interior Department in previous years has withheld. Last week, the Interior Department sent the county a check for $3.1 ...

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Fire alarm ringing

This is worse than deja vu all over again. It was only last year that a spate of blazes reaching from Fort Collins south to Waldo Canyon in Colorado Springs made it seem as though fire had done its worst in Colorado. It’s only June, ...

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Flag Day and freedom, security and surveillance

On this day 236 years ago, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution adopting as the official flag of the fledgling nation a banner with 13 red and white stripes and 13 white stars on a blue background. It was more than a century later ...

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Answers still needed about gas explosion

Grand Junction city officials are understandably relieved that a just-released report has absolved the city of any blame in the March natural gas explosion that destroyed two houses and injured a number of people. Even though the report was ...

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Weld plan to secede 
is unlikely to succeed

Weld County is serious about possibly seceding from Colorado, along with a few other counties in the northeastern part of the state, and forming a new state, County Commissioner Sean Conway said this week. Why, it’s so serious, in ...

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Community-driven park legislation

A few people may criticize Colorado Sen. Mark Udall and 3rd District Rep. Scott Tipton for establishing a committee of Mesa County residents to attempt to draft legislation that would designate Colorado National Monument as a national park and ...

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Return on investment more than just money

To hear some members of the Grand Junction City Council discuss it, the Avalon Theatre is no more than a business enterprise for the city — a matter of profit and loss and return on investment. If the bean counters on the council ...

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DNA ruling weakens Fourth Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on the use of DNA samples after someone is arrested — but not yet convicted of a crime — created some strange bedfellows. The court was split 5-4 on upholding the constitutionality of ...

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