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As a replacement for a troubled Chris Christie, who is reduced to scrubbing away at his voluminous dirty laundry, God has resurrected Mitt Romney as a possibility for 2016. Romney is back in the...
DATE: Feb. 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Two bills of mine made their way through committee last week. One of these requires the state to do a comprehensive assessment of Colorado’s emergency radio communications system. The assessment...
DATE: Feb. 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am working my bills through committees and the Senate floor now. The final Senate vote on the bill allowing smaller-population counties to choose to elect their commissioners by district vote...
DATE: Feb. 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Depsite Sunday’s heartbreaking loss, this has been a truly incredible year for our Broncos. They have made all of Colorado proud with their run for a third football world championship. But as we...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Judy Brenholt wrote that she would like us all to use a commonsense approach to the problems and work together to encourage our congressmen to follow the consensus of us voters (Letters, Journal,...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Thank you for your heartbreaking article on the woman who enlisted in the Army National Guard to help support her young daughter, yet is still on food stamps. It puts a human face on the statistics...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Thanks to the wonderful Rocky Mountain voters, our decades-old debate about pot is no longer so one-sided. I am pleased to hear some fresh negativity from our old school leaders. We have come far...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I am writing in response to Larry Tradlener’s column (Journal, Jan. 7). Being a lifelong Independent voter and a bit long in the tooth as Tradlener claims to be, his column about liberty and...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
WASHINGTON — What is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid? When even savvy, fluent, attractively populist Mike Huckabee stumbles, you know you’ve got...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
I left Durango for Telluride in July of 2011, and then I left Telluride in November of 2012 for a corporate job in New York state. Let’s just say a year away from the San Juans was enough. While it...
DATE: Jan. 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
As most people in southwestern Colorado are aware, Red Mountain Pass, along U.S. Highway 550, has been closed since Jan. 13 for repairs as the steep cliffs there had rockslides, making the highway...
DATE: Jan. 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
The great “leader” of our country should have suggested flags be flown at half-staff for foreign dignitaries – not a so-called order from him. That’s what makes some mad. Dale Morris Rio Rancho, N.M.
DATE: Jan. 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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