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		<title>Mesa State College or Mesa State University?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce making the Mesa County School District 51 their highest priority as increasing the lifestyle and attractiveness to business in the Grand Valley, it was the most natural of follow up issues. The significant growth of Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado begged the question; and now it's out there: When Is Mesa State going to become a University? There, we've said it: Mesa State University. ]]></description>
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		<title>Public Education surfaces as the single most important factor in attracting Grand Junction commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerned citizens in Grand Junction, Colorado asked themselves questions a year ago about how to make the valley even better. The Grand Junction Forum started as a think tank for the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce. Some dozen people gathered monthly to discuss how the community, bustling at the time in 2007, could continue to grow industry while retaining local character.]]></description>
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		<title>Elimination of coal mining jobs in western Colorado brings a crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The coal mining industry is not well known in western Colorado. The fact that Colorado coal is so much cleaner burning, and typically mixed in with dirtier burning coal back east, is even less well known. Xcel energy is pushing natural gas in the western US, as well they should. But when coal miners in western Colorado see a threat to their jobs, they get visible.]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Immigration or Porous Border is a two way street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local Colorado legislators, specifically western slope legislators, are very interested in Arizona's newly enacted, and restricted, immigration law. Rep. Laura Bradford recently traveled to Arizona to examine the law and it's effect up close. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mesa State College in Grand Junction Colorado makes Forbes Top Ten Colleges List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out of the top 610, Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado ranks 555th. Forbes.com list represents the top 9 percent of the nation's colleges.]]></description>
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