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Happy birthday, Clyde! One of Western Colorado's musical icons is celebrating another trip around the sun. Let's catch up with the Clyde half of Grand Junction's "Ralph N' Clyde." I've never known a world without Clyde Jorgensen. He was bouncing me on his knee back in 1970. Hey, that rhymes. In any event, everybody in Grand Junction knows Clyde Jorgensen and his brother Ralph Smith. Why Different Last Names? Let's take this opportunity to clear something up. Somewhere around 1993 I finally had to ask Clyde a question which had been bugging me. If he and Ralph are brothers, why do they have di...

Maysville school board in deadlock with teachers' union over contracts View Comments MAYSVILLE - Federal mediation awaits the Maysville Local Schools after board members declared impasse during contract negotiations with the teachers' union. "We're bargaining for fair and sustainable salaries, improved working conditions and better learning opportunities for our students," Maysville Education Association (MEA) President Myra Warne said. A major point of contention between the board and MEA lies with proposed economic packages. "A concern that we have as we move forward to negotiate an econom...

1. Republicans will have a hard time portraying Democrats as dangerous socialists. That seems to be the favorite Republican line these days, but it won’t work here. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is a corporate-friendly Democrat who, as governor, stood alongside Dominion Energy executives to endorse the now-abandoned Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (He also endorsed, and presumably still endorses, the Mountain Valley Pipeline.) The actual socialist in the field, Lee Carter, couldn’t even muster 3% of the vote (and was a double loser because he lost his renomination campaign for the House of D...

City leaders on Monday night authorized the city manager to install up to 10 cameras at problem intersections in the city where drivers are known to run red lights.

View Comments MUNCIE, Ind. — The Muncie City Council on Monday overrode Mayor Dan Ridenour's veto of an ordinance changing some of the rules governing the Muncie Fire Merit Commission. The veto was the first mayoral veto in a decade.  The merit commission is a city-appointed board that is in charge of hiring, promotion and disciplinary action for the Muncie Fire Department. Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour vetoed the ordinance 7-21, without any indication beforehand that he was going to do so. The move caught several city council members off guard. The most recent previous veto by a si...