Subject: Grand Junction

• More Messages: Janet Strikes Back

  February 5, 2007

• More Messages: Red Scare

  September 18, 2006

• More Messages: Loud Mouths

  September 8, 2006

• Things to Do in Denver When You're Not Dead

  September 19, 2007

• Dalton Trumbo Statue Set for Unveiling

  October 8, 2007

• The Rocky Piles Up Borrowed Content

  March 10, 2008

• Oil Shale Rush Is Déjà Vu All Over Again

  June 23, 2008

• Grand Junction's Cabaret Dinner Theatre Shuttered

  July 2, 2008

• The Future of Movies Arrives... in Grand Junction?

  July 21, 2008

• Best Place to Get Artsy DVDs for Cheap? Big Lots!

  August 1, 2008

• Terrifying Church Sign of the Day

  August 4, 2008

• Daily Sentinel on the block

  August 14, 2008

• Economic downturn hits Idaho Springs

  September 9, 2008

• Meeting Barack Obama in Grand Junction

  September 19, 2008

• Tunnel of Love

  Lower Downtown Holiday Experience

  December 2, 1999

• Born to Believe

  Church members had faith that God would heal their children. But often faith wasn't enough.

  October 12, 2000

• A Peach of a Good Time

  Palisade Peach Fest

  June 14, 2001

• Don't try to step in front of Sarah Palin's motorcade -- because it's not gonna stop!

  October 22, 2008

• The week ahead: Bye-bye, battleground state -- it's back to basics

  November 3, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  February 1, 2001

• Searching for jobs in the suddenly struggling Colorado oil and gas industry

  Not too long ago, the oil and gas industry was among the only business categories flourishing in Colorado. Even as the economy was getting softer and softer along the I-25 corridor, Western Slope communities like Grand Junction were booming. But thanks to falling fuel costs (among the rare blessings for most of us in the current economic crisis), that's no longer the case. Today's lead story on the website of GJ's Daily Sentinel -- yet another newspaper in these parts that's up for sale -- conce

  January 14, 2009

• Best Divine Save on the Western Slope

  April 4, 2002

• Best Outdoor Gear Kits

  April 4, 2002

• Best Fishnet Long Underwear

  April 4, 2002

• Grand Junction's food scene: pickups and empty places

  Denver is what I consider a relatively accomplished culinary town, as is Boulder, where I live. And sometimes perspective is necessary to really appreciate your surroundings.  This is a roundabout way of saying I went to Grand Junction for the weekend.  The drive is always beautiful, ascending into snowy peaks and cruising across the oil-rig-spattered desert. A trip to visit my girlfriend, who goes to Mesa State College down there, also left me with a few BBQ-sauce-covered nuggets of

  February 4, 2009

• Grand Junction Free Press cuts back on publication days

  Valerie J. Smith. Had to take a trip to my hometown of Grand Junction on a family matter this past weekend, and while there, I happened upon a copy of the Grand Junction Free Press, a no-charge publication that's taken a dent out of the town's main newspaper, the Daily Sentinel, since its 2003 debut via energetic reporting and a five-day-a-week publishing schedule. Unfortunately, though, " Free Press Announces Changes," a story on page one of that particular issue, revealed that its print versi

  February 10, 2009

• Gilbert Sam Roberts, 1935-2009

  That's my dad with me, at about six months old, and my brother Clowny. Palisade, Colorado, resident Gilbert Sam Roberts, age 73 -- my father -- died at 3:30 p.m. yesterday at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. Those are the facts. But like any straight-forward recitation of basic data, they tell only a sliver of the story -- and in this forum, I won't be able to add a lot more. Please indulge me, though, as I acknowledge some debts. My father taught me the importance of learning -- and I w

  February 12, 2009

• Best New Destination for Candy Addicts

  March 24, 2005

• The Message

  Read Alert

  July 7, 2005

• Off Limits

  Sour grapes

  December 2, 2004

• Smoke Detector

  Anne Landman has dedicated her life to being a pain in the ash. Will it make a difference come election time?

  September 16, 2004

• The Message

  Lesson Learned

  September 9, 2004

• Pranks for the Memories

  What they did on your summer vacation.

  September 9, 2004

• Hit Pick

  Purple Buddha

  November 20, 2003

• Simple Folk

  Bad Weather California whittles indie pop down to the basics.

  September 4, 2003

• The Fun Is Over

  Western Colorado's last family-owned amusement park takes its final ride.

  August 19, 1999

• Power Rangers

  February 26, 1998

• Feedback

  June 12, 1997

• The Big Queasy

  The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

  May 15, 1997

• Feedback

  May 2, 1996

• Is meth fueling artifact thefts?

  Meth addict, artifact thief -- or both? On June 10, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado senator) Ken Salazar announced the indictment and arrest of 24 individuals suspected of trafficking in illegally obtained artifacts in the Four Corners area. But who found these items in the first place? One theory: meth addicts. An article in Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel argues that the artifact/meth link is a dirty little secret among law-enforcement types. Chuck Wheeler, vice president of B

  June 19, 2009

• Frontier Airlines' Grand Junction fly-by sadly predictable

  The Grand Junction airport will soon experience its final Frontier. The purchase of Frontier Airlines by Indianapolis' Republic Airways Holdings will likely lift the carrier from bankruptcy, and that's a very good thing. But the possibility remains that Frontier could move its corporate offices out of Denver in the sort of cost-saving tactic that's already prompted the cancellation of a couple routes -- including the one between Denver and Grand Junction, which will end in September. This deci

  June 25, 2009

• The ideal healthcare system is in... Grand Junction?

  What St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction will look like after completing its "Century Project." In a report about efforts to control healthcare costs broadcast on National Public Radio this morning, Len Nichols, of the New America Foundation, an organization lobbying for reform in a wide array of areas, declared that "the ideal healthcare system" already exists in a number of places -- and the first one he mentioned was Grand Junction. The effusive press the Western Slope community has been

  June 29, 2009

• Shmuck of the Week: Josh Penry

  ​This week's shmuck is state Senate minority leader Josh Penry of Grand Junction. He's also gunning for Bill Ritter's Governor job, and the short version of the past few weeks' convoluted saga of schmuckitude is that Penry cares a lot more about his political future than his constituents. (Which makes him exactly like every other politician, which makes every other politician a shmuck. Which means we're probably right about this one). It's tough to decide where to begin, really. Early Jul

  July 31, 2009

• Milking It: Cinnamon Chex

  ​​​Cinnamon Chex General Mills Rating: Three-and-a-quarter spoons out of four Cereal description: The familiar Chex shape -- puffy, square grids, like graph paper made for chewing -- is present and accounted for, as are the base ingredients of rice and corn flour. Some of the pieces are a light brown color, while the others are darker and bear the mark of delectable cinnamon sprinkles in both the relatively new original recipe and the even-more-recent "gluten-free" rebranding.

  August 10, 2009

• This is what Barack Obama should expect at his Saturday healthcare town hall in Grand Junction

  President Barack Obama will host a healthcare town hall meeting in Grand Junction on Saturday in an attempt to counter disinformation being circulated by citizens who apparently love the fact that millions of people remain uninsured and rates for the rest of us continue to grow at a shocking pace. Lucky for him, he'll find lots of such dubious rhetoric in G.J. if the video above is any indication. The clip starts off with a lengthy introduction featuring, among other things, excerpts from 1976'

  August 12, 2009

• Some things Barack Obama should check out in Grand Junction when not being screamed at by lunatics

  A Flickr photoThe Colorado National Monument.​Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will visit Grand Junction for his next healthcare town hall, where he'll likely encounter folks like the ones in the video accessible here, caught in action during a GJ rally in late July. (Really dug the sign that read, "D.N.C. Lies: Grandma Dies.") But in the unlikely event he has any free time, he should check out some highlights from in and around the community, my hometown. Obviously, the Colorado National

  August 14, 2009

• CU Obama basher Zach Lahn gets shut down on MSNBC

  Zach Lahn on MSNBC.​Since asking the most confrontational question at President Barack Obama's healthcare town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, ultra-conservative CU student Zach Lahn has extended his face time by going on a tour of cable-news talking-head broadcasts. Predictably, Fox News did its best to turn him into a right-wing folk hero. But the ride was bumpier on MSNBC, where host Contessa Brewer interrupted the talking points he was able to voice more fully during a chat with CN

  August 20, 2009

• Uranium-mine opposition and Grand Junction's glowing legacy

  Grand Junction, circa the 1950s.​The Denver Post headline "Uranium Mining May Get Buried," about residents in Nunn, a town near Greeley, who oppose building a uranium mine nearby, hit close to home. I grew up in Grand Junction, and the repercussions of the supposedly safe uranium industry that once dominated the area's economy sounded throughout my school days and beyond. "Hot Town," a December 1971 article in Time magazine, lays the groundwork for the story. Tailings, described as "the g

  September 3, 2009

• Under Fire: Ahh, peaches

  ​ Our former Cafe Society intern just decided to chuck college in favor of a real education: as a sous chef. In Under Fire, he chronicles his daily trials and tribulations in the kitchen. THREE DAY WEEKEND!!! WOOOO!!! While I'm not in school anymore, I still will take the liberty of enjoying this time off like I was. Since the restaurant is closed on Sundays, was closed on Labor Day and my day off is Tuesday, I found myself with more free time than I've had in a while. Long story made

  September 10, 2009