Columns

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Kathy Jordan approached life and history with wonderment and zeal

Kathy Jordan never lost her childlike sense of wonderment about Mesa County and its inhabitants. Kathy died Tuesday morning at Denver’s Swedish Hospital after almost three weeks fighting a losing battle with a brain aneurysm. Kathy ...

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Learning from, or repeating, the history of Black Sunday

Thirty years ago tomorrow morning, about the time most of you will be scanning your Daily Sentinel while sipping early morning coffee, one of the defining moments in western Colorado history was occurring. It was Black Sunday. May 2, 1982. ...

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First more pay, now more office space: the excesses of Colorado lawmakers

This month, Republican and Democratic leaders in the Colorado Legislature introduced House Bill 1348 to authorize a possible move of the Legislature’s service staff from the state Capitol to a state office building across Colfax Avenue. ...

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Recent political news can leave one lost in the fifties (again)

Over the course of a normal week, there are almost always two or three overriding battles on the economic and political fronts that I can’t wait to research and write about. But this week? The vast number of seemingly unresolvable ...

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Tragedy in Trayvon Martin’s death and in our national discourse

The vehement national debate over the shooting of Trayvon Martin is about as strong of proof as you can find that it isn’t just the American political process that is dysfunctional these days — our entire social discourse is a ...

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Jury treated troopers’ confrontations with Kemp as two separate incidents

The recent trial resulting from the shooting of Jason Kemp in Grand Junction by a Colorado State Patrol trooper has generated a wide range of emotions and, of course, opinions. Such situations, happening in even in their most straightforward ...

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Farm Bill aims for simpler, more efficient conservation programs

By Sen. Michael Bennet In the last 18 months, I’ve held 21 listening sessions across the state from Wray to Cortez, and from Lamar to Meeker, so that I could hear directly from Coloradans who are using Farm Bill programs. I’ve ...

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Sal Pace blasts Tipton campaign’s insensitivity to working Americans

Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District race made national TV last week when MSNBC’s Ed Shultz featured Democratic congressional candidate Sal Pace’s response to a callous comment on the plight of ordinary working Americans by ...

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With drought upon us, it’s time to discuss conservation

By Greg Trainor One of our respected water leaders recently commented that “a drought is a terrible thing to waste. ” On April 4, the city of Grand Junction completed its monthly survey of the snowpack in the city’s Kannah ...

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Cell phone would have solved problems of the ferryboat caper

Had my pen name been O. Henry, I couldn’t have dreamed up a more convoluted plot than the ferryboat caper. And, had I been looking for an advertising gimmick on the value of cell phones, I might have won the Clio award by telling the ...

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