Area hospitals are seeing a decrease in admissions, but the reason is unknown. Some hospitals believe it’s the economy, people holding off on surgeries or that maybe they just aren’t aware of all the services offered at their facility.  The Daily Sentinel reports that Montrose Memorial Hospital is seeing about an 8% decrease in admissions.  [...]

State Representative Steve King of Grand Junction faces a statehouse ethics panel today on allegations he has double-dipped. According to the Denver Post, King, a police investigator, is being accused by Ethics Watch that he asked the state to reimburse him for things such as mileage after records suggest his campaign account already paid those [...]