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Letters to the Editor

Letter: Decline to sign for Ballot Initiative 16

The Montezuma County Democratic Party’s Central Committee recently passed a resolution opposing proposed Initiative 16. This citizen-initiated proposal would criminalize many widely-accepted...

DATE: April 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: National forest needs to rethink harvest plans

In regard to the Salter Y Vegetation Management Project proposed by the San Juan National Forest, it seems to me that there will be too many nice-sized ponderosa pines handed over to the lumber...

DATE: April 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Writer claims Herald fails to publish letters

It appears that the Letters to the Editor in The Cortez Journal are a thing of the past. Letters still show up in The Durango Herald, but nothing for those us on the other side of the La Plata...

DATE: April 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Dolores River Festival canceled again this year

As you may have read in the Journal in recent weeks, we had to cancel the 2021 Dolores River festivalfestival again due to the ongoing health crisis. It was a painful but necessary decision. While...

DATE: April 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Get avalanche education before going off piste

Since late January, there have been 22 avalanche deaths in America across 16 incidents in nine states, including many in Colorado. It’s been one of the most deadly periods in recorded history. It...

DATE: Feb. 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Don’t lump Cortez Patriots in with Capitol rioters

Amanda McNeil was granted a large section of the Jan. 13 Journal to spew liberal left venom in an attempt to silence and restrict the Patriots’ “freedom of speech and assembly” granted to all of us...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Support Neguse’s National Biodiversity Strategy bill

Watching this latest life-giving snowstorm falling outside my window, I’m reminded how tied we are to such gifts of nature. Yes, I’ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than choking on forest fire...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Vote no on recall of school board member Lance McDaniel

I would like to say a few words of support for School Board Director Lance McDaniel. Sadly, RE-1 School District is being tasked with holding a recall election to recall a director for no other...

DATE: Feb. 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Answer your phone to get into the vaccine line

If you are waiting to hear about getting your COVID-19 vaccination, be sure to answer your phone. A friend who volunteers to make calls to set up appointments told me recently that when they call,...

DATE: Jan. 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Cortez Republican’s flags, signs torn down

Considering the political bias of the Journal, and based on past experience, I will be very surprised if this is printed; or at the very least not in its entirety. However, I’m aggravated enough to...

DATE: Jan. 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Recall attempt violates freedom of speech

What does “freedom of speech” mean to Montezuma County residents? Does it mean certain people have freedom of speech, when others do not? Lance McDaniel took the initiative to step up to the plate...

DATE: Jan. 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Calling Boebert a “dropout” is petty denigration

Colorado Sun writer Nancy Lofholm, for unclear reasons, saw fit to label U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert as a “high school dropout” in her Jan. 15 article (“boebert vowed to shaek things up – she did”)...

DATE: Jan. 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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