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What an inspiring story (“Team gives opponent a TD to remember,” Journal, Sept. 18.) This illustrates exactly what high school sport events should be. There is more to life than only the score on...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – And now comes the life-expectancy gap. It may change the national conversation over Social Security and an aging society – for the worse. We all know that America is aging, but...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Twitter and Facebook litter and waste our reason to extinction. Go ahead. Google it. Find out what you already know about climate change. We may as well be driving off a cliff, no seatbelts, and...
DATE: Sept. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — Meanwhile, on the Democrats’ side: They are running a presidential campaign decrying wage stagnation, income inequality and widespread economic malaise -- as if they’ve not been in...
DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am writing to respond to an article in the Sept. 18 Cortez Journal entitled, “The true meaning of Christianity” by Fran Kruk. There comes a time in our lives when we realize that God is not a...
DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The Montezuma-Cortez High School Panther Football Team would like to thank Blondies for their time and effort to host our team dinners. The support of Blondies and our community was amazing! We...
DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I loved the story about Mama’s Deli (Journal, April 23.) Mae Prunty was my grandmother. My father, her son, had not seen her or knew where she was since he was about 9 years old. I did a genealogy...
DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I attended Scott Tipton’s town hall meeting Aug. 18 hoping to get some honest answers to several questions I have about recent government actions or I should say lack of action. My first question...
DATE: Sept. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
On a recent trip to Cortez, I read the story headlined “Are wolves coming back to Colorado?” (Journal, Sept. 9) and I almost vomited. The article featured Michael Soul’e a conservation biologist...
DATE: Sept. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON – Amid all the new government programs and tax cuts that have been proposed by the various presidential candidates – or will be as the campaign unfolds – there lurks a nasty statistic...
DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
According to a recent Cortez Journal article, 11.1 percent of Southwest Colorado citizens are still without health insurance even under the Affordable Care Act. Now imagine a health care payment...
DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Two weeks ago three assistant coaches “sort of” resigned from the Montezuma-Cortez High School football staff. A fourth secretly convinced the athletic director and administration to unjustifiably...
DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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