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December 2, 2008

• For holiday pets, think adoption first

November 28, 2008

• Gray Friday is the new Black Friday

November 25, 2008

• Send in your veteran's photo for free ornament

November 24, 2008

• What does a million look like?

November 20, 2008

• Thank you, School District 51 lunch ladies

November 18, 2008

• AWOL Iraq War Vet Went 'Hippy'*

November 17, 2008

• Cassie's got her MoJo working

November 4, 2008

• Whither Ratherisms on Election Night 2008?

November 3, 2008

• If only it were this easy to cover elections

October 30, 2008

• It's the scaring season

October 28, 2008

• Christian Science Monitor to cease daily printing

October 27, 2008

• Getting it right after you got it wrong

October 22, 2008

• Time to catch up

October 21, 2008

• An 11-year-old's take on the war in Iraq: 'I Am' poem by Jack Mayne

October 20, 2008

• Announcing a Wiki for the West Slope

October 14, 2008

• It's beginning to look a lot like ... winter

October 13, 2008

• How to survive financial turmoil? Eat more squirrel

October 7, 2008

• Israeli TV station says "feh!" to good news

September 30, 2008

• The Sun sets in New York today

September 24, 2008

• Punctuation is delicious
• Happy; National, Punctuation. Day!

September 23, 2008

• After this Nightmare on Wall Street, "free" never sounded so good

September 22, 2008

• Grand Valley Senior Daybreak celebrates 15 years of caregiver respite

September 17, 2008

• Happy birthday, Isabel, Chance & Piper

September 12, 2008

• Twittering from a child's funeral

September 11, 2008

• Showing some (arch) support for Mesa County Search & Rescue

September 9, 2008

• Lefty? Right Wing? You be the judge

September 8, 2008

• Maverick with a capital "M"

September 5, 2008

• Gabriele Mayer is more than the "face" for ovarian cancer awareness, she's the voice of hope

September 4, 2008

• Papa (and Roy Clark) knows best about calling out propaganda

September 3, 2008

• On covering Sarah Palin when you're her hometown paper

August 21, 2008

• Press release files reveal Tic Tac-eating cat

August 18, 2008

• If your birth certificate says dad is "Boto," have a talk with your mom

August 1, 2008

• Top 10 Reasons It's Great for The Daily Sentinel to be downtown
• Happy birthday, Colorado -- you don't look a day over 131

July 30, 2008

• Cubs fans, keep an ear out for this name: Kevin Vicker

July 29, 2008

• Scooping up after the Mesa County Fair

July 22, 2008

• Mesa County Fair week

July 18, 2008

• Check out The Daily Sentinel at Newseum.org

July 17, 2008

• 100 years of G-Men and Journalists

July 1, 2008

• John Hendricks opens new Gateway Canyons features

June 30, 2008

• Think globally, trade locally

June 27, 2008

• We need roller derby in Grand Junction

June 24, 2008

• On Wally Windscheffel's big discoveries of tiny fossils

June 23, 2008

• Bird, bee & beetle podcasts during National Pollinator Week

June 20, 2008

• Sustainable homes and gardens

June 16, 2008

• Windscheffel's shadow

June 10, 2008

• Takin' it to the streets

June 9, 2008

• Why not in February?

June 5, 2008

• Rained out

June 4, 2008

• Free fishing this weekend

June 3, 2008

• 'This brave heroine chose to fight back'

June 2, 2008

• Guarding the nest

May 30, 2008

• I live in Clifton

May 28, 2008

• Your brain on baseball
• If you thought lead paint on toys was bad ...

May 27, 2008

• New challenges for Newt

May 22, 2008

• For Memorial Day: genealogy gold mine
• Johnny Steele's 40th birthday bash

May 20, 2008

• Bring on the fruit season
• Narrow escape

May 19, 2008

• A little too close to home

May 16, 2008

• Scholarship winners
• Putting the "sci" in sci-fi

May 14, 2008

• Skin Deep

May 12, 2008

• Pomp and promise

May 9, 2008

• What's new?

May 8, 2008

• Congratulations, Stoneho

May 7, 2008

• What a difference a week makes
• Mileage matters, but it's not everything

May 5, 2008

• Sign of the times

May 2, 2008

• New science column; now that's cool

May 1, 2008

• Take Your Daughters to Work Day

April 30, 2008

• Desert Solitaire

April 25, 2008

• Stories Don't Happen in the Newsroom
• Blowin' in the Wind

April 22, 2008

• Local farm to corner table

April 18, 2008

• Killer zebra mussels

April 16, 2008

• On Your Own Terms

April 15, 2008

• PV Literary Writing Festival winners
• Up-and-coming writers

April 14, 2008

• Spring has sprung

April 11, 2008

• West Slope White House Press Corps
• Prizes are nice, but readers are the real reward

April 9, 2008

• On Jayhawks and journalism