Mature trees matter in Grand Junction. They provide shade, reduce heat, improve neighborhoods and add character to a community built in a high desert. But that was never the question. The Grand Junction City Council recently considered whether to repeal the city’s Significant Trees provision. Since then, much of the discussion has focused on whether […]
There have been a lot of conversations about Mesa County’s budget lately, and I think people deserve to understand not only what we are doing, but why. Government budgets can get complicated quickly. We start talking about TABOR, reserves, intergovernmental revenue, vacancy savings and unfunded mandates, and pretty soon we’ve made something unnecessarily difficult to […]
During the August 3rd Grand Junction City Council workshop, I called HomewardBound’s proposed funding model a “non-starter.” That comment was in response to a specific funding request HomewardBound presented to Council that evening. Beyond the workshop itself, there is some important history behind my response that I felt was worth sharing with our community. That […]
For years at the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, we have been sounding the alarm about Colorado’s slipping business competitiveness. I have listened to employers explain that the cost and complexity of doing business in Colorado is becoming unsustainable. Too often, those concerns have been dismissed as political disagreement or resistance to change. They […]
This tax season, small businesses across Colorado are seeing the impact of Working Family Tax Cuts where they matter most – on their bottom line. Last year, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the largest tax cut in U.S. history, designed to empower the working- and middle-class Americans who keep our nation strong. Already, […]
Colorado was built by pioneers. That pioneering spirit still defines the rural communities that grow our food, produce our energy, protect our water and carry the transportation and natural resource backbone of this state. These communities have never asked for special treatment. They have always done the hard work without complaint and have carried Colorado […]
In January 2025, at the start of the 75th General Assembly, the Senate Republicans unveiled a suite of bills that, if passed, would have given the average Colorado family over $4,500 in annual savings. The Colorado Senate Republicans, together, took to the West Foyer of the Capitol building and unveiled a striking visual: a tower […]
P.J. O’Rourke said it best: “The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it.” Let that sink in. Because it best describes the Grand Junction City […]
And the city council needs to begin its takedown as soon as possible. The people have spoken, and while none of the recent election losers, departing council members who approved the project or the two remaining on council who still desire to move onto pilot project 2.0 think the recent election wasn’t first and foremost […]
This is the only statement which we can make related to a post from Jason in a private group on Facebook. There is no “context” to be parsed or question to be asked by what he meant with his post. What he thinks about a good percentage of the population of Grand Junction and how […]