GJ Sentinel Daily REWiND Podcast

This week, we examine the public health board cutting ties with former public health director Xavier Crockett after questionable spending during his tenure and the double standard applied to his predecessor, Jeff Kuhr; how to spend 36 hours in the Grand Valley, as explored in a NYT article; gubernatorial candidate Michael Bennet’s tour to connect with young people and their perspectives on the accessibility of the American dream; the forces behind the country’s housing crisis; and review how our readers feel about Daylight Savings Time.

In this week’s episode, we examine the possibility of Jared Polis caving to President Trump’s demands to pardon Tina Peters following a social media post signalling his possible capitulation; the bizarre case of a former neurosurgeon accused of sexual assault who decided not to go down without a fight when cornered in Vero Beach, Florida; the unexpectedly viral post by the GJPD featuring a young cop perceived by female viewers as a “thirst trap”; and review the results of last week’s poll asking readers what should be done with the tariff money deemed by the Supreme Court to have been collected illegally.

In this episode, we look at the potential effect of Trump’s endorsement of Jeff Hurd’s primary challenger, Hope Scheppelman, on the eventual outcome of the 3rd Congressional District’s U.S. House race; debate the pros and cons of potential legislation decriminalizing prostitution in the Centennial State; the benefits of thoughtful deliberation in politics; and explore options for mitigating the impacts of the Citizens United decision and the flood of money into the electoral process.

This week, we reflect on a Trump video post that depicted the Obamas as apes and the blowback from readers upset by The Sentinel’s republishing the controversial screen grab; discuss the Club 20 foundation’s agreement with Purdue University to help raise funds for research on the true cost per kilowatt hour and environmental impact of different methods of electricity production; confront the controversy over the county’s seeming sweetheart rental deal with Faith Heights church after the purchase of their building; and look at how readers felt about D51’s unexcused abasence policy pre-empting athletes from competiton.

In this edition, we discuss the fallout from GJHS student-athletes whose participation in an “ICE-OUT” walkout, which resulted in an unexcused absence, precluded their ability to compete the following day; potential backlash against local law enforcement due to questionable ICE tactics; progress on plans to update Stocker Stadium and its impact on access to the Lincoln Park Barn; Tri-State Generation's pushback on a Trump admin "emergency" order to keep their coal-fired station operational; and readers' thoughts on whether or not a national firearms ban at public protests would be advisable in the wake of the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

This week, we examine a potential loss of $600K originally guaranteed to District 51 that could now be taken away due to a misinterpretation of the funding formula amid the ongoing debate over the “J Curve,” which puts the district near the bottom of statewide funding distribution; new leadership for Club 20, which has lost its statewide flex in recent years; and a drop in ACA enrolloment in Mesa County after the Senate failed to pass the subsidy extension that has caused premiums to skyrocket.

This week, we lament the latest development in the ongoing Tina Peters saga, in which she claims to have been accosted by a fellow inmate, a questionable assertion based on surveillance video of the scuffle; a new restaurant coming to downtown by the owners of Palisade’s popular “Peche” restaurant; discuss whether or not justice was served in the case of John Taylor, who pleaded to a lesser charge in the shooting deaths of two men after originally pleading not guilty to second-degree murder.

This week, we look at the surprise guilty plea in the case of a security guard who shot and killed two men on North Ave. in 2024, the bizarre case of a head and hands found in a freezer on private property that’s one in a string of high-profile cases from around the Grand Valley, state legislators wrestling with strained budgets as the 2026 session begins, and, it’s back to the future for the Museums of Western Colorado as they contemplate consolidating their many entities.