Editorials

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BLM backs away from national parks

The drill rigs won’t be quite so close to Delicate Arch, the iconic sandstone bridge in Arches National Park, thanks to a last-minute decision by the Bureau of Land Management as it prepares to put gas leases in eastern Utah up for ...

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GM wants to fly under the radar

We hate to say this about a venerable American company that we truly hope survives. But GM simply doesn’t get it. In the grand scheme of things, it made little difference that GM’s CEO, along with those of Ford and Chrysler, flew ...

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Stripped to essentials, it’s a strange decision

Would a nightclub serving alcohol — but not featuring strippers — be allowed to operate in the industrial-commercial area at the west end of the Interstate 70 business loop? Based on the split Grand Junction Planning Commission ...

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Shop-and-spend season has arrived

Based on most prognostications, the annual holiday-season spending splurge that begins today will be a dismal one — unless you are a shopper looking for bargains. Some national experts are predicting the first drop in holiday-season ...

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Thanksgiving 2008

It would be easier, perhaps, to celebrate our national holiday of Thanksgiving if things did not look so glum right now. If the economy were booming, if virtually everyone had jobs and homes were appreciating in value faster than real-estate ...

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Buck Rogers at the Gorge?

Eric Scott is a foolhardy adventurer who just may have offered us a glimpse of the future Monday. Carrying only 33 seconds worth of fuel and no parachute, Scott made a 21-second flight over Colorado’s Royal Gorge, using a personal jet ...

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To cut waste, look at Farm Bill

Although he’s planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to aid the floundering economy, President-elect Barack Obama also wants to cut unnecessary federal spending. “To make the investments we need, we’ll have to ...

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Obama likely to delay tax increase

We’re not sure we’ll agree with everything President-elect Barack Obama will do to fix the country’s ailing economy. Given the uncharted waters we’re in, we’re not sure anyone can approach the problem with any ...

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Longtime Sentinel employee will be missed

Vernon “Duke” Langford retired from The Daily Sentinel on Feb. 1, 2005, exactly 40 years after he began. But he never really left. After his retirement, Duke was a familiar fixture in the newspaper’s lunchroom. Duke, who was ...

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Mirrors and lots of smoke

Here’s a big surprise. Much of the money tobacco companies committed to the states as part of a nationwide legal settlement hasn’t exactly been used as it was intended — for health care and preventing smoking. Instead, the ...

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