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WASHINGTON – If you’re going to engage in a foreign policy capitulation, might as well do it when everyone is getting tanked and otherwise occupied. Say, New Year’s Eve. Here’s the story. In...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Owning a small business in Cortez is no simple task. The cost of owning a business alone is very high in this area, especially considering the number of people living here, cost of living and...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Once again another local “constitutionalist” has erroneously claimed that our public lands were stolen from the state of Colorado. Every 20 years or so another sagebrush rebellion rears its ugly...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
When and why did MCHS become hyphenated as M-CHS? I can find no definitive grammatical rule nor reputable writing style guide indicating the referenced hyphen is needed. For reference by example, a...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — We’ll be hearing a lot about the middle class in the coming months. That’s one sure bet for 2016, as both parties compete for votes. What’s less sure is whether we’ll get an accurate...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Sitting at my home desk preparing to write this column, I couldn’t be happier to see the mounds of snow outside the window. May el Niño be all for Southwest Colorado that’s been promised. For those...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
In this day and age of corrupt pharmaceutical companies and inept uncaring medical professionals, there is a shining beacon of hope right here in Cortez! Nurse Practitioner Shawna Frost, is...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – On climate change, curb your enthusiasm. It’s not that the recent international conference in Paris didn’t take significant steps to check global warming. It did. Nearly 200 countries...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I urge our elected representatives to take action to repeal or greatly modify the unfair “Uniformed Services Former Spouses Protection Act” (P.L. 97-252 and amendments). Military members are the...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – The current ferment of American politics has brought comparisons to Europe in the 1930s, with echoes of leaders who stoke anger against outsiders and promise a return to greatness...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Next year we are going to need to replace five trustees on the Mancos Town Board. Personally I am grateful for the service of those trustees that serve, as I know it is not an easy task. Now we...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Dec. 11 Journal had a story titled “Fact check.” The fact checker needs to check the facts! The “facts” commented that Ben Carson missed the boat on federal lands. The data referenced the...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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