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Christian | Grand Junction Daily Sentinel news/politics reporter | Auburn alum | Former writer for the AU Plainsman and Auburn Undercover | COYS and Go Braves | big movie guy

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“On July 27, 2014, Mr. Good Guy texted Mr. Epstein a graphics interchange format, or GIF, image of former basketball player Michael Jordan with the caption, ‘Stop it. Get some help.’”

21.11.2025 00:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mesa County DA, Colorado AG urge Gov. Polis to not give in to Trump's Tina Peters demands Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday with a clear message: Tina Peters should not be

BREAKING: Mesa County DA Dan Rubinstein and Colorado AG Phil Weiser sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday with a clear message:

No matter what Trump says, the state should not adjust former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ sentence.

I was provided a copy of the letter late this afternoon.

20.11.2025 23:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Way past due": Rep. Hurd votes to release Epstein files The U.S. House of Representatives voted 427 to 1 on Tuesday to approve the release of documents and files pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Senate then passed

“This is on both sides of the aisle.”

I talked to Republican House Rep. Jeff Hurd about his vote to release the Epstein files on Tuesday and asked him how Congress can follow up if these documents end up being heavily redacted or even altered. www.gjsentinel.com/news/colorad...

18.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just chatted with Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-Grand Junction). He told me he is a YES on releasing the Epstein Files in today’s upcoming vote.

Story to come.

18.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THE BO NIX AGENDA CONTINUES TO GROW

17.11.2025 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I meant to share these earlier in the week, but here’s some photos I took of the northern lights over Grand Junction on Tuesday night. These were taken in the Redlands area. Second photo shows the Milky Way bathed in pink.

15.11.2025 01:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hot take: make fun of the content of the lyrics all you want but “CANCELED” is the catchiest and most replayable song from the album.

05.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That makes a whole lot of sense. We know 9/11 affected the movie since there was supposed to be a scene (which was also the teaser trailer) implementing webbing between the twin towers.

05.11.2025 05:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mamdani out here quoting Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man movie. The man knows how to get the people going, huh?

05.11.2025 04:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

If the results hold (Vicki Woods over Angela Lema, Kaci Cole over Will Jones), Republicans would go from 4-1 majority on the school board to 2-3 minority.

Mesa County is a red county.

05.11.2025 04:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is far from the most noteworthy result unfolding in politics tonight, and results are not finalized, but….

In Mesa County in Colorado, two of the three incumbent Republicans from the District 51 school board are losing handily as things stand.

05.11.2025 04:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a normal day working at the daily sentinel

31.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The last time the Denver Broncos lost to the Cowboys, I was six months old.

26.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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carved a green goblin pumpkin. I think it turned out ok

22.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DENVER WINS THE DRUNKEST NFL GAME I’VE EVER SEEN WOWWWW

19.10.2025 23:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Update: river never stood a chance. The haters and naysayers are SICK

18.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hiking the Narrows at Zion with my dad today so if y’all don’t hear from me again, I’ve become one with the river and just know I’m cool with it.

18.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Say what you will about Sean Payton’s playcalling today and the dismal offensive play (namely dismal running game); that defense was OUTSTANDING today for Denver. Holding an NFL team to 82 total yards is insane. Nine sacks in one game is insane. Those guys had a near perfect day.

12.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More Telluride

12.10.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Telluride part 2

12.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Timeline cleanse since the Broncos are screwing around and trailing the Jets in London: here’s some autumn pictures I took in Telluride last weekend

12.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

A Harry Kane reference in a Todd video?

07.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Autumn is my favorite time of year, especially in Colorado. Took these photos atop the Grand Mesa in western Colorado this past weekend.

24.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hickenlooper had quite a bit to say to me, not without snark toward Trump, but I find Colorado’s conservative response more interesting, as GOPers in the state don’t back Trump’s ideas that there’s any problems with how Coloradans vote.

22.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Officials from both parties push back on Trump's criticism of Colorado's mail-in voting At the start of September, President Donald Trump announced the relocation of Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, seeing through his original plan from early 2021 ...

Trump cited “crooked” mail-in voting as a reason to relocate Space Command from Colorado to Alabama.

So I talked to Colorado reps from both the GOP (Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross, Reps Matt Soper and Janice Rich) and the Dems (Hickenlooper, Bennet, Weiser) who all defended mail-in voting:

22.09.2025 19:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Lukewarm take: the Trumpish type of messaging from Gavin Newsom and other politicians that’s being done ironically is still a bad thing — even if it annoys Trump himself — because it just proves that everyone’s standards for professionalism have dropped. Why does everyone just talk like this now?

18.09.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s impressive that these are two topics worth raising social media hell about and Schumer and his team choose to combine them in the most ineffective way imaginable.

Also neat that everyone’s just accepted that childish all-caps Trump-style posting is just how politics is now.

18.09.2025 21:54 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

She didn’t specify, she just said “I don’t want to root for the Panthers” and left it at that

16.09.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Chiefs — too bandwagony
Patriots — Patriots fans are Patriots fans
Broncos — she wants to troll me about the Broncos
Panthers — she’s from North Carolina and doesn’t wanna root for them
Browns — I want her to actually kind of like football, also she’d hate Deshaun Watson’s guts

16.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

also she plans on doing this every single season instead of investing long-term in one franchise, this is absolutely unhinged

16.09.2025 03:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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