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As Montezuma County, with its ever-shrinking budget, considers whether to continue supporting the Cortez Animal Shelter, we hope the commissioners can find a way. They have already heard that many...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Rico community has benefited from an outpouring of assistance recently, from the area emergency-response agencies who gave mutual aid in the response to a recent house explosion, to the...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In November, Coloradans approved, by a margin of nearly 2 to 1, a measure that allows terminally ill patients to request a prescription they can self-ingest to bring about a peaceful death. In La...
DATE: Jan. 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Much has been made of the fact that incoming President Donald Trump’s support centered on the heartland, while Hillary Clinton’s came from more populous cities and coastal areas. For that reason,...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Yesterday, the day that recognized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s, was a time to reflect on the relations between whites and blacks...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
To many, it was the opening shot in a long-expected battle over the future of our nation’s public lands.Others argue that it was much ado about nothing much.Either way, a new rule passed by the...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As expected, state Rep. Don Coram, has been named to succeed state Sen. Ellen Roberts. He is a good fit for the district and can be expected to do the job well. The Montrose Republican has...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A 30-member task force created by Gov. John Hickenlooper has recommended Colorado stop jailing people experiencing a mental health issue who have not committed a crime. It is clearly a...
DATE: Jan. 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The defining moment of the start of the new year has to be President Barack Obama’s protection of Bears Ears National Monument, 1.35 million acres of canyons and plateaus in southeastern Utah. It’s...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The past year was marked by hard times for young people, an ongoing focus on our water supply, local budgets, schools and more. Sadly, 2016 will be remembered for both overdoses and suicides — some...
DATE: Dec. 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Taxes on energy extractive sources have made living in Southwest Colorado a lot less expensive than it would be otherwise for residents for almost three decades. That is at an end. Montezuma County...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Christmas gifts. We stress over them. We drive miles for them, spend hours online “perfecting” them. We break budgets, stretch credit, hammer piggy banks buying them. Still, they sometimes miss...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
