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In Grand Junction, officials and community alike want to know more on future resource center site
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In Grand Junction, officials and community alike want to know more on future resource center site

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice City officials are negotiating to relocate Grand Junction’s Resource Center to North Avenue, but residents and business owners have thus far been left uninformed. Despite past assurances a new location should limit its impact on businesses, Rocky Mountain Voice has confirmed that city officials are in the process of acquiring 2851 and 2851 ½ North Avenue, a strip mall surrounded by businesses and residences. Councilmen Dennis Simpson and Scott Beilfuss confirmed the deal is underway, but said the Council has not yet considered it in a formal session. “We’re in the process of negotiating to buy 2851 and 2851 ½ [on North Avenue]. I guess there are two different properties probably [to combine],” Simpson said. Beilfuss...
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SB 5, the undoing of the 81-year-old Labor Peace Act, is headed to Colorado House
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SB 5, the undoing of the 81-year-old Labor Peace Act, is headed to Colorado House

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice When she opened the 75th General Assembly with other lawmakers, Douglas County Republican Sen. Lisa Frizell noted Democrat Gov. Jared Polis' description of "the free state of Colorado". The passage of Senate Bill 25-005 out of the upper chamber Tuesday is proof enough, Frizell says, that those were only words from the head of the ruling party, which led the labor bill. "This bill does nothing more than to put handcuffs on workers and businesses alike," Frizell said, noting Colorado is already rated as the sixth most-regulated state in the country. Senate Bill 25-005, by Majority Leader Sen. Robert Rodriguez and Democrat Sen. Jessie Danielson, which would undo significant portions of an 81-year-old labor relations law, was adopted on a 22-1...
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Legislature recognizes contributions of nurses, EMS responders
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Legislature recognizes contributions of nurses, EMS responders

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice The role of emergency workers and nurses was recognized Tuesday in the Colorado Senate, with a selection of each seated in the chamber. Adams County Democrat Sen. Kyle Mullica, an emergency room nurse when he's not serving in the state legislature, noted that a nurse is comfort in trying times. "It has been a tough [few] years to be a nurse," he said. "They take care of us in our most difficult times." And before a patient many times reaches the hospital or emergency room, emergency workers care for them, El Paso County Republican Sen. Larry Liston said. Republican Sen. Mark Baisley introduced EMS workers in the chamber. "Every now and then we need a hero," he said. "When that emergency medical situation comes on us or our family, or...
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Final hearings today for Senate’s labor, semiauto firearms ban bills as state legislature returns to business
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Final hearings today for Senate’s labor, semiauto firearms ban bills as state legislature returns to business

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A three-day weekend in the Colorado General Assembly may have been needed for the ambitious schedule lawmakers may keep today, Tuesday, Feb. 18. Another marathon session of the Colorado Senate could be on tap, as Senate Bill 25-003, the semiauto firearms ban, returns to the floor for third reading. At issue, bill sponsor Democrat Sen. Tom Sullivan said, is whether, in the interest of stemming mass shootings in the state, Coloradans should sacrifice constitutionally-provided gun ownership rights. “We’re concerned about the next firearm, not the one you have,” said Sullivan, which identified the bill’s approach to prohibit purchase, sale and transfer of common-use firearms that many on the political right find unconstitutional. “If we allow ...
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Hunter: I’ve got the ‘bug’ only the Denver Fly Fishing Show can cure
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Hunter: I’ve got the ‘bug’ only the Denver Fly Fishing Show can cure

By Drake Hunter | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice The screaming and whirling of the drag as I set the hook into what I hoped would be a whopper rainbow was unforgettable. The trout surfaced and then nearly pulled me in the river, waders and all, and that was enough. I was "hooked", you could say. OK, maybe it wasn't a "whopper" and maybe it didn't exactly go down like that. Maybe the trout was the size of the fish Deion Sanders catches in that commercial with Nick Saban. It felt like a whopper to this novice, and I had "the bug" you could say for fly fishing. That's why I'm like a kid in a candy store this week. The 23rd annual Denver Fly Fishing Show is making its return to the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center from Friday-Sunday, Feb. 21-23. The Fly Fishing ...
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Local ranchers get wolf training from Delta County Livestock Association
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Local ranchers get wolf training from Delta County Livestock Association

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice There have been no reported wolf depredation of cattle or sheep in Delta County, so far, but Robbie LeValley, on behalf of the Delta Livestock Association, gave a Feb. 13 presentation to more than 130 ranchers in Hotchkiss, Colo., emphasizing how critical precise record keeping will be — should and must likely when the quiet ranching community is impacted by wolf depredation. Hotchkiss is a small town with a population of 929 people, all of whom are impacted by the local ranching economy. Hotchkiss is located in the North Fork of the Gunnison River, between Paonia and Delta, in Delta County. “We are not here to argue about the wolves, they’re here. Wolves are close, they are on top of us,” LeValley said. The informat...
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Wolf 2307-OR died as a result of another wolf, not a gunshot wound as some theorized
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Wolf 2307-OR died as a result of another wolf, not a gunshot wound as some theorized

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Despite allegations and innuendos from animal rights activists, wolf 2307-OR died as a result of a fight with another wolf, not a gunshot wound last September. Wolf 2307-OR was found dead after his collar signaled that he had died, on Sept. 9, 2024, CPW reported in a press release Sept. 12, 20224, concerning the event three days earlier. CPW, at the time, said that 2307-OR was killed by another wolf, but then backtracked when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) noted there was a gunshot injury. Months later, the pathology report concluded that the gunshot was not a factor in the wolf’s demise. In a Jan. 8 meeting of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission, commissioners heard repeated accusations from pro-...
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Garbo: Lead the fight for America by reclaiming our republic from the enemies within
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Garbo: Lead the fight for America by reclaiming our republic from the enemies within

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice To be a citizen of the United States is to inherit one of the greatest political experiments in human history — one built upon the foundation of unalienable rights, limited government and a system designed to safeguard liberty against the natural tendency of power to corrupt. The Founding Fathers envisioned a constitutional republic where the people — not monarchs, aristocrats, or unchecked rulers — held sovereignty over their own destinies. The Declaration of Independence establishes the core philosophy that birthed this nation: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
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Rep. Ty Winter on leadership, rural values and politics: ‘Without your word, you’re nothing’
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Rep. Ty Winter on leadership, rural values and politics: ‘Without your word, you’re nothing’

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Leadership isn’t just about making deals and passing laws for state Rep. Ty Winter. As assistant minority leader, he helps shape the Republican Caucus, while ensuring the people of his Southeast Colorado District 47 have a voice in the Colorado House.  “We grew up in a house where we had to get up and take care of something every day, and I think that's important,” the rancher, businessman and third-generation funeral director said. “When you have another living being depending on you to make sure you water, feed and give it shelter – that teaches work ethic and values.” At the funeral home, Winter is "my mother’s first associate, and my wife and I work alongside her,” he said. “I help on the ranch when needed, but at thi...
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Jackson County rancher is first to have a confirmed livestock kill by wolves in 2025
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Jackson County rancher is first to have a confirmed livestock kill by wolves in 2025

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain voice It only took six weeks in 2025 for the first confirmed wolf livestock depredation to be reported, this one from Jackson County.  A rancher has reported that a cow, which was due to calve within the month, was killed by an uncollared wolf in Jackson County, approximately 10 miles south of the Wyoming border. The name of the rancher is not being disclosed for privacy reasons. First reported by Shannon Lukens of Steamboat Radio, the rancher said that CPW has been out and confirmed that his cow was indeed killed by a wolf. According to the rancher, who to his misfortune had been a victim of wolf depredation in 2024 and who had his dog killed by a wolf 30 feet from his backdoor, went out to feed his cows on Feb. 4, and al...
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