Editorials

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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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Congrats, CMU cyclists

It’s not often that the local school wins a national title, although the overall 2012-13 Division II collegiate cycling national championship that Colorado Mesa University claimed over the weekend is actually the second the university ...

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Finally, a standard for driving stoned

On the second to the last day of the 2013 legislative session, the Colorado Legislature finally approved a bill to set a legal standard to determine when someone is driving under the influence of marijuana. The approval of House Bill 1325 is ...

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West Star flies high

The special meeting of the Grand Junction Regional Airport Authority this morning is critical, not just to the airport, but for the entire community. However, the decision before the Airport Authority should be an easy one. The authority ...

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TABOR transgression needs to be reversed

For 20 years, local governments and the state of Colorado have sought means around the often-crippling revenue limits in the state’s TABOR Amendment. Most efforts were entirely legal and accepted by voters. But the TABOR end run that ...

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Council vs. Chamber

There is a cartoonish aspect to the tiff between the Grand Junction City Council and the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce — sort of like “Spy vs. Spy” from Mad magazine, in which one side acts and the other immediately ...

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Head-spinning changes

Change is inevitable but Coloradans may be forgiven if recent changes are making their heads spin. Who would have believed, say five years ago, that there would be gatherings in Grand Junction to celebrate legal civil unions between same-sex ...

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A brighter future 
for immigrant students

Just in time for graduation season, Colorado’s Legislature and Gov. John Hickenlooper have delivered a gift that will be treasured by many a high school graduate. Hickenlooper this week signed a bill applying the in-state college ...

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Don’t destroy oil, gas commission

When the full Colorado Senate takes up House Bill 1269 today or later this week, we hope there will be enough lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who recognize the extensive damage the bill would do to state regulation of the oil and gas ...

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