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Editor: To our president, Senate majority leader and all gun control advocates disappointed with the Senate vote: Background checks are already the law for online purchases and at gun shows. A...
DATE: April 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: Of course you’re concerned about our voting, civil, human rights and so on... but do you not fear the government taking our rights away, like the feds’ choice to not prosecute the Black...
DATE: April 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: Your headline “Irrigators, rafters face bleak summer” is misleading. (April 18 Dolores Star and April 17 Cortez Journal) While it is true that rafting below McPhee reservoir is dependent...
DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: Sheriff Spruell is partly right. The Second Amendment does say “people have the right to bear arms.” The word “militia” was used, although also not clearly defined, possibly because our...
DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: We’d better wake up to the realization that we are faced with very real and serious water issues. As of this writing, the precious Colorado River is at the very top of the endangered...
DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: What is Tom Townley’s version of an assault weapon? I have yet to find one person who supports the assault weapon ban who can tell me what an assault weapon is. Richard Kipp Pleasant View
DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: There is something significantly wrong in American when some try to take away voting, civil, human, religious, social, constitutional rights while persuading people to take up arms in the...
DATE: April 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor: My husband, Richard K. Stacer, was a World War II veteran who served duty on a destroyer as a boat officer, taking Marines and Army soldiers in landing craft tot he South Pacific islands...
DATE: April 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:Changes in the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) starting in 2013 and 2014 will reveal the serious underfunded status of PERA in the state of Colorado. It will also lay the...
DATE: April 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:The thought of countries like Iran and North Korea having the capability to develop, build and use nuclear weapons is a very frightening thing. Those countries say they need weapons like...
DATE: April 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:So many letters about this law, or that law, being unconstitutional. It goes back 200-plus years, and the fact remains, any law is constitutional until and unless the courts - ultimately,...
DATE: April 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Editor:It's an ill wind blowing up McElmo Canyon, spreading a sickness like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Perhaps we can all recover from the rants from the canyon if we were provided with...
DATE: April 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
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