Editorials

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Plug this hole in regs

The discovery that thousands of gallons of natural gas liquids leaked into the Parachute Creek watershed has raised questions that go beyond the actions of Williams, the company involved. Perhaps of equal importance is what regulations need ...

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Justice for infanticide

Many people, no doubt, would like to see Philadelphia abortion doctor and murderer Kermit Gosnell executed for his gruesome crimes — snipping the spinal cords of just-delivered babies that were alive and squirming. But the fact he will ...

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Water-plan wariness

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday directed state water officials to draft a statewide water plan by December, 2014, and the reaction from water experts on the Western Slope was something less than unbridled enthusiasm. That shouldn’t ...

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Proposed DUI limit is a sobering limit

The National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation this week that all 50 states lower their legal blood alcohol limits for driving under the influence of alcohol from 0.08 to 0.05 percent shouldn’t be too frightening for ...

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Friction between council members 
highlights a growing rift in ideology

I find it pays to read the newspaper carefully. Often after a story is reported, there is, as the late Paul Harvey used to say, “The Rest of the Story.” Case in point: the April 24 portion of The Daily Sentinel, titled ...

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Obama’s headaches 
originate at the top

Both Attorney General Eric Holder and a spokesman for President Barack Obama assured the public Tuesday of their commitment to maintaining a free press. But that supposed commitment looks far less real in the wake of the news that ...

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Tea and tax scrutiny are problems for IRS

Few government agencies hold such broad authority as the Internal Revenue Service, so when the IRS starts targeting groups for their political viewpoints it is a threat to free speech and our political system. Such abuse of a federal ...

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Others should join transparency project

New members of the Grand Junction City Council — and other local elected officials, for that matter — should take a page from Mesa County Commissioner Rose Pugliese’s playbook when it comes to keeping the public ...

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A tenuous start for immigration reform

The immigration reform bill engineered by the so-called Gang of Eight — four Republican and four Democratic senators, including Colorado’s Michael Bennet — received its first hearing in a Senate committee 
Thursday, ...

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Legislature wraps up conroversial session

With controversial bills about guns and gays, new rules for marijuana and voting, plus attempted changes in how this state deals with energy and an important but unfinished effort to change the state’s school-finance law, the 2013 ...

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