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‘Missy Awards’ given for ridiculous political behavior

With awards season in full swing, we didn’t want to miss our opportunity here at the bottom of the editorial page to hand out our newly minted “Misunderestimated Awards” (The Missys) for political regression. The first Missy is a special category this year, going out to The Best Republican Governor since 2002-there’s a lot of excitement in the air but I think the winner should be obvious as, John Hickenlooper. By never meeting a conflict he doesn’t avoid, ...

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Hickenlooper looks beyond party politics

Among the many items Gov. John Hickenlooper discussed while in Grand Junction Monday was a proposal his office has made to the Bureau of Land Management to develop a single form for energy companies to use to comply with federal and state hydraulic fracturing disclosure rules. That’s not been done before, Hickenlooper told The Daily Sentinel’s editorial board. But since the recently released draft of BLM rules closely mirrors the fracking disclosure rules Colorado adopted last ...

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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 conflicts in the headlines just sapped my energy and resolve. Consider: Who should and should not have nuclear weapons, TSA employees busted in drug rings, racial profiling in immigration debates, accusations of communism and socialist hypocrisy, oil and ...

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C-SPAN bus coming to local schools

Fruita Monument High School senior Vinny Castellini will receive $750 of prize money Monday for placing third in C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2012 video contest. Castellini’s short documentary, “In God We Trust? Religion’s Role in America,” was one of 75 winners in the nationwide contest. More than 1,200 people entered the contest, which asked middle school and high school students to create a film about a theme in the U.S. Constitution. Castellini chose to address ...

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C-SPAN bus coming to local schools

Fruita Monument High School senior Vinny Castellini will receive $750 of prize money Monday for placing third in C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2012 video contest. Castellini’s short documentary, “In God We Trust? Religion’s Role in America,” was one of 75 winners in the nationwide contest. More than 1,200 people entered the contest, which asked middle school and high school students to create a film about a theme in the U.S. Constitution. Castellini chose to address ...

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C-SPAN bus coming to local schools

Fruita Monument High School senior Vinny Castellini will receive $750 of prize money Monday for placing third in C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2012 video contest. Castellini’s short documentary, “In God We Trust? Religion’s Role in America,” was one of 75 winners in the nationwide contest. More than 1,200 people entered the contest, which asked middle school and high school students to create a film about a theme in the U.S. Constitution. Castellini chose to address ...

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Gov. Christie and Colorado representative refuse to back down to incivil bullies

Civility in politics is important. You hear it a lot. I agree. It is ridiculous that elected leaders can’t even carry on a conversation with one another. To be honest, that is one of the things I like most about Gov. John Hickenlooper — he doesn’t have that angry glaze of partisanship that taints the eyes of so many high-ranking types these days. Good for him. And there are others like him. Scott Tipton certainly comes to mind. But inasmuch as civility matters, so does ...

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Doing as we say in D.C., not as we (sometimes) do at home

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Few of us, given the nature of current events, hesitate even for a moment to criticize members of Congress and others in our nation’s capital for the governmental deadlock that seems to preclude any real progress in solving problems ranging from the budget and deficit to energy policies, with many other issues in between.  Fewer of us stop to think about the many ways ...

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Colorado will be among swing states, GOP leader says in urging donations

Give and give generously, Colorado GOP Chairman Ryan Call told Mesa County Republicans on Friday. If the party is to replace President Barack Obama, keep its majority in the Colorado House, take control of the Colorado Senate and retain and expand GOP lawmakers in U.S. House districts in the state, it’s going to take money, and lots of it, Call said. “We’ve developed our political strategy, we’ve got our ground game put together, we’ve formed a top-notch ...

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Science is anathema to the far right wing of the GOP

Just when you think those wild and crazy guys and gals who live out in the barren wilderness that is the far right wing of the Republican Party have reached the comedic depths of their zany ideology, they up and outdo themselves yet again. After making fools of themselves with their complete misunderstanding of economics and history, and mangling the King’s English in the process, they now have decided to take on science. When it’s all said and done, all of us will fear ...

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