Letters

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E-mail letters, March 9, 2011

Mesa County planning department hinders growth So the county building department has to lay off more people. Imagine that! Let’s see, after my wife and I came to the Planning and Zoning department to see if we could split a 5-acre ...

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Printed letters, March 10, 2011

Police are not too easy on the area’s homeless So, the police are too accommodating to the valley’s homeless, according to columnist Rick Wagner. Interesting, especially since School District 51 reports that it has 500 homeless ...

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E-mail letters, March 8, 2011

Jacob Richards offers hope and change When Obama was making his run for presidency two words were used repeatedly — hope and change. However, I do not think he was using them only in regards to himself. He was not the man to come and ...

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Printed letters, March 9, 2011

I have read twice in The Daily Sentinel where Fred Eggleston with Xcel Energy has suggested that the city of Grand Junction chose inferior street lights for Riverside Parkway over Xcel’s objection. That is not how the lights were ...

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Printed letters, March 7, 2011

Front Range groups must protect resources Regarding the Feb. 16 article, “Fisheries weigh options for, against diversions”: We appreciate The Daily Sentinel’s coverage of the potential impacts of the additional ...

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E-mail letters, March 7, 2011

There’s no need for writer to demonize the homeless I’ve been waiting for Rick Wagner to run out things to scare us with. Every week it’s the illegal aliens are after us, then its the Muslims, then the liberals, the death ...

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Printed letters, March 6, 2011

Making more cuts doesn’t make sense Paul Nelson and Jeff Wendland’s Feb. 27 column made some good points about the beauty of Mesa County’s abundant natural resources and discussed the importance of outdoor recreation ...

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E-mail letters, March 4, 2011

SB 126 would allow undocumented students in-state tuition Currently, the Colorado Legislature is tackling Senate Bill 126 entitled ASSET (Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow) that would allow undocumented students who have ...

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E-mail letters, March 3, 2011

Activist presents biased view of oil and gas industry As a fair and balanced resident of Battlement Mesa, I have naturally been following the fracking controversy. I only wish that more of the commentary could be informative, factual and ...

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Printed letters, March 4, 2011

Tea partiers are great at publicity I have to hand it to the tea party Republicans: They know how to run a campaign. While we should be worried about figuring out how to keep the billionaires from coming up with scams that will ruin our ...

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