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Other than living in the city, and on North Edith, which is now nearly one big pothole, I am wondering. I was thinking last night about going down with a shovel and digging into those potholes off...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
With the adrenaline rush of the Super Bowl victory by the Denver Broncos fading but certainly not gone, legislative activity is picking up steam. I had four bills to present in committee last week...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin (“Nino”) Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
To our neighbor in uniform: Thank you for alerting traffic on Highway 145 to the family of deer crossing the road. Earl C. Moore Dolores
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Recently workers from the Cortez Public Works Department came to my house at the intersection of Aldridge and Cochita in the Paradise Village subdivision to repair the roadway. I noticed them out...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
It would be advisable for the voters in Cortez to reflect on the inability of the current City Council and mayor to effectively have the snow removed after a large snowfall (it took weeks), and...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
With a late start to the General Assembly this year, always the second Wednesday of January, it started out feeling a little unusual. Opening day remarks seemed to draw a line in the sand and did...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – We have a candor deficit. President Obama last week submitted his $4 trillion 2017 budget, using the occasion for self-congratulation. Deficits are down. Employment is up. He plugged...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
While standoffs by the Bundy bunch in Oregon and Nevada are more dramatic, almost daily I hike Bureau of Land Management trails at Mud Springs, near Cortez, and often see pickup trucks destroying...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The New Hampshire results have solidified the reigning cliche that the 2016 campaign is an anti-establishment revolt of both the left and the right. Largely overlooked, however, is the...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I would like to applaud the new federal rules limit on gas flaring and venting. Several times recently I have experienced shortness of breath and these episodes have occurred at the same time that...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
While standoffs by the Bundy bunch in Oregon and Nevada are more dramatic, almost daily I hike Bureau of Land Management trails at Mud Springs, near Cortez and often see pickup trucks destroying...
DATE: Feb. 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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