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The heart and soul Cortez should have

Editor:Are publicly announced or privately held beliefs against people who are different from us part of the heart and soul of Cortez? I am afraid they might be.Discrimination, whether verbal or...

DATE: Feb. 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

These new modern guns must be more evil

Editor:Where is this majority that wants common-sense gun laws? I can't seem to find them, A few of us are old enough to remember when most high schools had shooting clubs and students brought...

DATE: Feb. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Seek solutions to homelessness

Editor:Michael Maresh's headline article in the Jan. 3 edition of the Journal did state an obvious truth: "Homeless population in Cortez can have negative impacts." Indeed. Of course, the same is...

DATE: Feb. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Parental control, not gun control

Editor:We live in a world of electronic babysitters. Most kids today have a television, computer, violent video games in their rooms, and their parents don't have any idea what they are doing. They...

DATE: Feb. 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Hold government officials accountable

Editor:In reading the letters in recent issues by people who were in favor of the Forest Service Travel Management Plan and those against it, there is a point that hasn't been discussed much that...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Make the punishment fit the crime

Editor:Every day the American people are losing more of our constitutional rights, what after gun control? We are already not allowed to go ATVing and camping on property we pay taxes to support,...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Educate instead of discriminating

Editor:At the January school board meeting in Dolores, a representative from Channel 7 News, Albuquerque, gave a very biased report portraying Dolores as a small backward, racist, farming town....

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The label isn't the deadly part

Editor:We must hope that Larry Tradlener will explain in "Part II, Guns and Roses" how the users of the "non-assault rifle (AR-15)" could kill so many people (in Aurora and Newtown) in such a brief...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Health care is a heck of a racket

Editor:I believe that the doctors these days should be held accountable for giving out prescriptions that don't work. I think it's quite a racket they've got going. They give you something that...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Total gun control: Hit what you aim at

Editor:With President Obama and his administration attacking America's Second Amendment, I believe in total gun control: hitting what you're aiming at.As far as current governments go, I like the...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Err on the side of closing more roads

Editor:Recently, the Forest Service released an updated comprehensive multi-use plan for Boggy-Glade area of the Dolores Ranger District. The new proposal - "Modified Alternative D" - calls for 379...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

The seeds of violence against minorities

Editor:I am writing in order to join the hooplah over the banishment of Confederate flags from Dolores High School. The confederate flag is only a symbol, like the swastika, until it is used as a...

DATE: Feb. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

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