I'm still trying to figure out who Grand Junction CO is - anyone have some insight? @Dean Withers might know too!

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#GrandJunction #Colorado #WestSlope #Rockies #MesaCountry

#HouseGOP is taking money from #WestSlope and handing it to billionaire coal barons.

But here’s the kicker: The states where the coal is mined get 50% of that royalty revenue [so OBBB corporate-coal giveaway means coal states get less money for rural coal communities and counties].

#copolitics

Power prices are expected to soar under new tax cut and spending law In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.

As #cleanenergy projects are killed across Colo’s #WestSlope where member-run rural coops were leading way, #GOP gave local communities this

"As that happens, the country is expected to generate more electricity from natural gas plants, which are often more expensive..."
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State board sets hearing over Shoshone instream flow water right The Colorado Water Conservation Board has agreed to a request from four Front Range water providers that it hold a hearing related to a proposal to create an instream flow

Red, Blue and Purple: out here we pretty much agree - #WestSlope water belongs on the #WesternSlope.

#copolitics #andthehorseyourodeinon

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A thread 🧵 on what is facing #WestSlope in Big Bad Billionaire Bonanza

Overall Impact of US Senate Megabill on Rural Colorado

1. Health Care: Medicaid cuts risk hospital closures, job loss, less access

2. Food Security:
SNAP cuts hit rural families, local businesses, state budget

#copolitics

Mr Hurd should represent the mostly unaffiliated and politically diverse #WestSlope by building common purpose from the ground-up.

That's the so-called "Colorado Way" - instead he is rubberstamping a top-down Beltway-based agenda that will only harm the #co03 and Colorado.

#copolitics

Front Range water providers request state hearing to air concerns about Western Slope water rights deal The Western Slope wants to buy historic Colorado River water rights. Denver, Aurora and others say the plan, as is, could hurt their water supplies.

It's #WestSlope water. Denver can get bent IMHO.
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Here’s which Colorado public lands could be sold under the latest Republican budget proposal Over 14 million acres of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in Colorado could be eligible for sale in Senate Republicans’ latest budget proposal, according to a new analysis from T...

This sucks.
#Colorado #publiclands #GOP #USFS #BLM #Aspen #Carbondale #westslope
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A New Hope? Former state GOP Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman announces bid to primary Hurd Five months into his term in the U.S. House, Jeff Hurd (R-Grand Junction) is facing official opposition from within his party.

If Hurd were wise he'd eye open primary, that 1/3 of #co03 Unafilliated, then dump #HouseGOP herd mentality and be sensible adult from #WestSlope embrace attack from super-cult "Free TIna Peters" wingnut wing of smoldering wreck that used to be CO GOP #copolitics

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#colorado
#westslope

All across Colorado- This is #WestSlope, but they were across mountain towns and Front Range too...

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How is letting billionaires run roughshod over rural and western Colorado, writing rules by corporate elite for corporate elite, and firing hundreds of Coloradans and cancelling ongoing watershed, energy and health care work and projects in #co03 helping #WestSlope and rural America?

#copolitics

Anyone else in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District not feeling Hurd?

#CD3 #westslope #CO #JeffHurd #cowards

Republican #WarOnRuralAmerica

See below for #WestSlope real world impacts to rural Colorado as House #GOP's surrender its Constitutional Duty by letting rogue billionaire and his captured Exec sh!t all over #USA - here on the ground for real people.

Where is our Congressman???

#copolitics

No surprise, but Jeff "MIA" Hurd failed to attend the Town Hall he was invited to by very people who pay his salary.

During campaign he was in his shirt-sleeves driving pick-up all over #WestSlope, pledging to be man for common-hard-working Coloradan. So where TF is #JeffHurd????
#CO03 #COpolitics

This is normally a trickle. To say that we have had some Weather today is an understatement. It feels like the crap coming out of DC. #firehose #westslope #sierra #atmosphericriver

Mr Hurd has a decision to make - Will he seek to govern as his constituents (majority UaF) wish, or as the DC Party Bosses demand?

Lot's of folks on the #WestSlope are watching.

Read the LTEs in local papers, from GJ to Montrose to Pueblo to Durango to Glenwood...

#copolitics

#grandjunction #colorado NVR ENDVR is playing with Escape the Fate and Convictions at Mesa Theater on 2/21! #montrose #delta #rifle #silt #saltlakecity #westslope #localband #livemusic

You Said It: Jan. 4, 2025 I am one of the Republican partisans who doesn’t always trust the media, but I am saddened to learn of Charles Ashby’s retirement. Folks like me are often quick to

Matt Soper is being pilloried in the GJ Sentinel, the region's "Paper of Record" -

tl;dr:

Matt Soper is a cad and everyone things he should resign now in disgrace before bring more deep Boebertian shame to the #WestSlope.

#coleg #copolitics

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Socked in by low winter clouds full of moisture and fog.
#WestSlope Mount Garfield you mahvelous.

Had the good fortune of running along the Palisade Rim Trail the other morning #trailrunning #outwest #colorado #westslope #palisaderim

"A lot of people really love the area for hiking, cycling & angling, extremely popular & well-loved. It's also really important for #biodiversity, for various species at risk, like bull trout & #WestSlope #CutThroatTrout. Also a really important place in terms of #WaterSupply." #Kananaskis #yyc